Will I need to go to Ikea to get furniture for the room?
I stayed at a vacant frat for my summer and the room was furnished.
I doubt you’d need to buy furniture just for summer camp, but on the off-chance that you do, that is a great place to do it —just don’t venture into any of the rest of East Palo Alto.
It is hard to confuse East Palo Alto with the rest of the city; highway 101 runs North/South and neatly bisects the two. The overpass is 300 meters, but from a economic and cultural standpoint it might as well be 100 miles long. Very many other people with experience in Palo Alto say the same thing.