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12/28/2023
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Matt Mahan’s message: By getting back to basics and working together, we are beginning to see progress on some of our most challenging issues.

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07/08/2023
In its series on San Jose’s new leaders, San Jose Spotlight checks in with the mayor, fresh off a contentious debate over housing funds that ended in his first big political compromise.

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07/01/2023
Over the last several years San Jose has watched its traffic fatalities in the city increase exponentially. Now city officials are banking on a state bill to move those numbers downward.

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06/27/2023
A San Jose private school run by Mayor Matt Mahan’s wife is receiving a $862,000 city grant, which has raised questions about favoritism due to the school's close connections to the former mayor and other city hires.

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06/23/2023
San Jose officials are making a renewed push to clear a path for a future professional baseball team in the city.

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05/24/2023
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s controversial plan to divert millions of dollars away from affordable housing is being challenged—this time by his own colleagues. Now, the mayor is trying to get ahead of his plan being thwarted.

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05/01/2023
San Jose voters passed a property transfer tax to help fund affordable housing, but the mayor wants to reallocate more than half for other uses. The city manager’s budget proposal shows that $38 million of the $70 million earmarked for affordable housing may shift to homelessness services.

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04/12/2023
San Jose’s mayor has faced criticism for his plan to ban homeless residents from setting up camp in certain parts of the city, but he believes it's only because people don’t fully understand it.

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03/24/2023
Vietnamese residents packed a local restaurant to speak with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and District 8 Councilmember Domingo Candelas about the biggest issue on their minds: small businesses.

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03/16/2023
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The structures will help the city reach Mayor Matt Mahan’s ambitious goal of sheltering 1,000 unhoused residents by the end of the year.

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03/14/2023
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's top issues—homelessness, public safety, growth and blight—haven't changed since he took office, but tackling them is going to require an aggressive approach.

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02/15/2023
Mayor Matt Mahan created five closed-door committees to meet and advise him on the city’s most pressing problems ahead of this year's budget process—a move highly criticized because it lacked transparency and potentially flouted the law.

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02/13/2023
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Building more emergency housing, adding more cops on the streets, expanding neighborhood cleanups and speeding up the permit process are key recommendations from advisory committees created last month by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. The mayor’s office today announced the recommendations released by the five “transition committees” he launched in January identifying approaches to solve [...]

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01/24/2023
Despite facing criticism from free speech experts, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan supports his predecessor's vision to address how San Jose responds to public records requests.

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01/12/2023
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The committees, which include council members, staff and community reps, center on issues raised during Mahan’s mayoral campaign.

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01/04/2023
Image for display with article titled City Hall Vets Shift to New Jobs as Team Mahan Takes Shape

A sure bet for Team Mahan is Matthew Quevedo, the new mayor’s campaign manager and former council office chief of staff. And Rachel Davis already posted her new job as communications chief.

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01/04/2023
Image for display with article titled The Metro Interview: San Jose’s New Mayor

Although at 40 Matt Mahan is not the youngest to hold the office, his meteoric rise and outsider status are unprecedented.

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01/02/2023
A photo hanging in the lobby of San Jose City Hall still lists Mayor Matt Mahan as the District 10 councilmember. While the title will be updated soon, Mahan, who was sworn in on Dec. 29 and took the helm Sunday, isn’t waiting around.
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