November 9, 2013
Readers respond to the homeless man and daughter on Santa Clara VTA bus
SAN JOSE — The front-page photo of a father dozing with his young daughter huddled near him covered only with…
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November 9, 2013
Opinion: All of county’s 7,000-plus homeless need help
The outpouring for the homeless man and his school-age daughter featured on the front page of this newspaper Nov. 1…
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October 24, 2013
Santa Clara County approves $8 million to house homeless, ex-prisoners
SAN JOSE — The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has approved agreements that will put $8 million toward implementing…
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August 7, 2013
Santa Clara County’s Section 8 voucher program upended by tight rental market
SAN JOSE — Within the caring community that looks after the needs of Santa Clara County’s homeless — a diaspora…
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August 1, 2013
Santa Clara County’s Section 8 voucher program upended by tight rental market
SAN JOSE — Within the caring community that looks after the needs of Santa Clara County’s homeless — a diaspora…
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March 12, 2013
San Jose’s rising homeless numbers prompt ‘tough love’ plan
SAN JOSE — In the wake of the clean up of a large tent city near the Guadalupe River last…
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March 11, 2013
San Jose, Santa Clara County must act on crisis of homelessness: Mercury News
San Jose’s most visible homeless encampment — the one in Mineta San Jose International Airport’s flight path, visible to arriving…
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March 5, 2013
Program Finds Homes for the Homeless
San Diego, Fresno and San Jose are among some 200 communities across the country trying a new strategy that is…
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March 14, 2012
Mike Wasserman and Stacey Murphy: We can end chronic homelessness in Santa Clara County
On March 7, the Mercury News published a story about the plight of Giselle McDonald, a 74-year-old homeless woman who,…
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March 6, 2012
Old and sick and living in her car, determined homeless woman needs a real address
Giselle McDonald has been scraping for decades on her own, camping out in her battered Ford Escort, washing her hair…
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