Personal Narrative: My Personal Ideas

Growing up in California, the heart of the tech industry, helped me recognize the negative effects that tech corporations have on low income communities. Coming from an immigrant, low income family, tech corporations have drastically changed my life and my comforts in my community. For 14 years I was raised in Menlo Park; a quiet and friendly neighborhood where everyone knew each other. Moving to East Palo Alto angered me. Besides from being mad, I was scared of moving. East Palo Alto has a reputation of having a high crime rate daily and being around the neighborhood made me feel uncomfortable. I was furious because my family was forced to move out due to the drasic rent increase, but my anger motivated me to make a change in my community. …show more content…
Even though East Palo Alto is still being affected by gentrification, I feel motivated to stand up for those who are too scared to speak up and for those who are being overcharged. I did this by presenting this issue to the mayor of East Palo Alto, I took advantage of this opportunity to reinform her about the problem of gentrification. As I presented my personal story, I was filled with so many emotions, I managed to make her and the audience cry. I explained to her a that it has reached the point where teens are now worrying about the price of rent instead of focusing on school. There have been many incidents in where I would be sleeping and could I could hear my parents argue because our rent was becoming impossible to afford. The desperation of their voices made me realize that I need to put to action my feelings in order to help my family and others who are being affected by this issue. Recently my family has been providing a place for another family in our home. The family of seven is renting two rooms in my home. And due to gentrification, they have also been kicked out of there home due to the rent