https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/10/05/san-jose-to-vote-on-solution-to-guadalupe-river-park-homelessness/

When Claudine Sipili first saw the “booger green” and other drab colors San Jose proposed painting its newest short-term homeless housing, she immediately worried no one would want to live there.

For Sipili, who herself has been homeless and in and out of shelters, jail and treatment centers, the color scheme brought back visceral and unpleasant memories of staring at similarly painted institutional walls. So she steered city officials instead toward a burnt orange and purple pallet that reminded her of a sunrise — and a new beginning.