These housing projects are there mostly to make wealthy Palo Alto residents feel less guilty about driving almost all poor people out town.

If Palo Alto really cares about low income people, then change your zoning so that your gardener can afford to send his kids to your school.

But, if you are too good to live next to your household help, then be honest about it and put a Trump sign in your lawn.

Whine and complain.
It is about time that citizens at large are "forced" to buy housing for certain other folks.. Hey, if you can't afford to live here, LEAVE. There is no God given right to be able to afford a certain level of life style.
Have you ever seen the "Public Housing" of Detroit, of Chicago, or any other place where the public has built and paid for such housing. "They" will destroy it in a few years.
OK, give private sources Section 8 tax credits, but don't expect corporations or govt. to put up the bucks.

citizens are NOT forced, etc

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So-called "affordable" housing is a cruel myth in MV. It is just as unaffordably expensive to finance as equivalent free-market housing due to insane property costs and equally insane construction union labor costs. The only difference is that because this is NOT free-market housing, taxpayers are on the hook for the initial construction subsidies and for the far more egregious and never-ending rent subsidies.

Mountain View already has a huge future problem to fund its grossly inflated public employee salaries, benefits, and obscene pension expenses. Can we in MV afford to add to these problems by building unaffordable "affordable" housing? This is ignorant Bernie Sanders Socialism run amok. The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher once said (and I paraphrase); "Socialism works until you run out of other peoples' money to spend." My home owning neighbors and I in MV are the aforementioned "other people", and we can't afford to support Socialist-Populist mandates from well-meaning but economically ignorant politicians and special interest groups!

@William Hitchens,

I cannot stop laughing at the absurdity of a beneficiary of two of the largest handouts, Proposition 13 and the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction, complaining about not having other people's money to spend. Is it a massive lack of self-awareness, or just callous indifference to the plight of others?

At least Bernie Sanders Socialism is aimed at helping those less well-off, the system you benefit from just funnels money to the wealthy. Now you can see why Bernie is the most popular politician in the country, in a Fox News poll, of all places.