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Silicon Valley service workers at risk of eviction
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Silicon Valley service workers at risk of eviction
The cooks and housekeepers who staff the mansions of the Silicon Valley rich have limited options for affordable housing.
A view of people walking in the Facebook main campus in Menlo Park, California, May 15, 2012. Facebook, the world's most popular internet social network, expects to raise USD $12.1 billion in what will be Silicon Valley's largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) later this week.
A view of people walking in the Facebook main campus in Menlo Park, California, May 15, 2012.
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The cooks and housekeepers who staff the mansions of the Silicon Valley rich have limited options for affordable housing.

The show "Silicon Valley" addresses some of the challenges of living among millionaires and billionaires. The main character rents a room in a suburban ranch house with five other guys, the only option on his modest beginning programmer salary.

But what about those who don't even make that? The cooks and housekeepers who staff the mansions of the Silicon Valley rich? For them, the options are even more limited.

Reporter Heather Perlberg recently wrote about this in Bloomberg News and joins the show to discuss.