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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…
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…
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,…
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…
Santa Clara County supervisors to consider $1.2 million in vouchers to house 100 chronically homeless
Except for a few stints at a shelter, Mark Quinlan has spent the past few years living in Plaza de…
Cassidy: Silicon Valley nonprofit deploys data to fight homelessness
Jen Padgett leads a team that powers the back-end support for those on the front lines of the fight against…
The sad lives and deaths of homeless on the streets of Santa Clara County – a continuing tragedy
No one was with Roger Hissim when he died. His body was discovered at the mouth of two large drainage…
Jennifer Loving on KQED’s The Forum discussing local efforts to end homelessness
We check in with different regions of the Bay Area to hear about local efforts to help the homeless. Is…
Chronic Homelessness Jumps 11 Percent in Santa Clara County
There are 11 percent more chronically homeless people living in Santa Clara County this year than in 2009, according to…
