Pretty amazing. I also read about Google employees living in their cars for a while, some of them living in tents in backyards, etc. I think though they have some of their own temporary housing for employees, but I think the prices are pretty steep.
Do you recall which episode/season the Jared sleeping in garage deal is in?
Sorry didn't mean to ruin it for you but in the last season they told us jared had been renting out his condo to make ends meet and there's a twist I won't spoil but he ends up renting a spot in the garage from Erlich as a result.
Google is somehow connected to a mobile home park in Palo Alto that's getting a lot of news. There's a deal on the ballot there now to make that a designated affordable housing location. apparently the belief is that google somehow invested in the company that bought the mobile home park. They immediately started raising the space rents of the tenants and at some point started offering to buy out tenants who were having trouble with new higher rents(they pay a mortgage and a space rent). The belief is that the plan is to push a bunch of tenants out by buying them out and then remove their older homes, replace them with new mobile homes, and then sell or rent those out to Google employees.
If you believe in the conspiracy angle the long term plan was to put enough new homes in there that it pushes the median house price for the park above a certain threshold at which it loses it's affordable housing designation and then the owner can actually buy out other owners and build houses or condos where the mobile homes were. So Palo Alto is trying to pass a law that prevents that from happening.
the park I live in now(couple more weeks we're selling) has several people now living there who work at Apple, regularly housing is so expensive now techies are buying in mobile home parks, they buy an old house have it taken out and replaced with a new one.