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Coronavirus: Bay Area scrambles to keep disease from spreading among homeless
San Jose has stopped sweeping homeless encampments The methods vary, but the goal is the same: Do everything possible to…
It Takes a Village to Solve Bay Area’s Housing Crisis
In the past few months, Apple, Google and Facebook announced multi billion-dollar investments in housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom has made…
An RV camp sprang up outside Google headquarters; now Mountain View wants to ban it
With house prices out of reach, where will the van dwellers go? In a quiet neighborhood near Google’s headquarters last…
San Jose: 42 percent spike in homeless population
San Jose, like surrounding cities, has seen a steep increase in the number of people sleeping on the street Aligning…
California should follow San Jose lead on affordable housing
Boosting funding to house city’s lowest-income residents is a model for the Bay Area and beyond San Jose is showing…
San Jose aprueba prioridad de 45% de fondos para viviendas asequibles para hogares mas vulnerables
To combat homelessness, a San Jose City Council vote yesterday approved prioritizing 45% of all affordable housing dollars for families…
San Jose boosts affordable housing funding for poorest residents
$10 million to be spent on converting market-rate housing into affordable housing Believed to be the first city in the…
How San Jose can manage impacts of homelessness
City should take bold step of dedicating close to half of its affordable housing funds for lowest-income households Communities everywhere…
The best civic gifts of the year are life-changing, inspiring
Two donations stand out for creating immediate benefits and encouraging others to act On Christmas, a day that should be…