In Silicon Valley, even mobile homes are getting too pricey for longtime residents

Judy Pavlick outside her mobile home in the Plaza del Rey park. She is leading a rent control campaign in Sunnyvale, Calif. (David Butow/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

SUNNYVALE, California: During the last week of March, Apple reached a record market value of US$754bil (RM3.27tril), Google tweaked a policy to protect its US$22bil (RM95.60bil)-a-quarter advertising business and Yahoo inched toward closing a US$4.83bil (RM20.98bil) sale. 

Meanwhile, Judy Pavlick drove around her Sunnyvale, California, mobile home park collecting plastic bottles and empty drink cans to save her future.