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“Notice of Closure of Evacuation Facility” The unsigned notes instructed the fire victims to move out within three days and leave the area clean and free of debris. There wasn’t much to leave, just a few old travel trailers and vehicles parked on a dirt strip in the Napa Valley Expo fairgrounds. But the small group of refugees from the LNU Lightning Complex fires understood the message. Somebody wanted them gone. The September eviction deadline came and went. But there have been more. And members of the tight-knit group said they feel a constant pressure to move along. A sense of being ...

Tombstones honor 196 homeless people who died in Silicon Valley December 24, 2020 Assemblymember Ash Kalra paying his respect for the homeless people who have died. Photo by Eugene Luu. Row after row of makeshift tombstones filled a plaza outside a county building in San Jose, each with the name of a homeless person who died on the streets of Silicon Valley this past year. “If we don’t do this, then people just don’t recognize the enormity of the problem and how many people are dying,” said Shaunn Cartwright, a longtime homeless advocate who helped create the tombstones. On each one o...