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Almaden Plaza in San Jose is getting a couple new stores
Tomorrow will be Barnes & Noble's last day at Almaden Plaza in South San Jose. That space along with the former spaces for Buy Buy Baby, Compass Real Estate, and Tuesday Morning will be merged...
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy
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As San Jose develops plans for sanctioned homeless encampments, Mayor Matt Mahan traveled to San Diego to see what he could glean.San Diego, at the forefront of safe sleeping sites for unhoused people in California, has two sanctioned locations …
As Gov. Gavin Newsom pushes for local governments to take swift action to clear homeless camps, local housing advocates are standing together against policies they say criminalize being unhoused.Members of Helping Hands Silicon Valley, Unhoused Response Group, CHAM Deliverance …
The fifth annual Silicon Valley Pain Index, an easily understandable, statistical overview of the structured inequalities in Silicon Valley, was recently released and features new data that highlight the region’s persistent inequalities. There are almost 200 statistics in the pain …
Tavia Jones felt so unsafe at the Sunnyvale homeless shelter that she would risk being found by her abuser on the streets to avoid living in a facility where she said she was treated as less than a human.For …
James, an unhoused Campbell resident, has a hard time trekking to the closest shelter in San Jose roughly 5 1/2 miles away. He avoids shelters, preferring to move around, but would go to a safe one if any were nearby. …
Homeless residents at the North County Shelter in Sunnyvale say a shift in management has heightened sanitation problems and workers are unequipped to handle older adults living there.Two residents of the Santa Clara County-owned shelter told San José Spotlight …
Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling on local governments such as San Jose to use state funds for urgent action to address "dangerous" homeless encampments.Newsom's executive order on Thursday suggests notifying homeless residents at least 48 hours before an incoming …
Sunnyvale is looking to offer safe parking for homeless residents living in their vehicles, and city officials are working on what that entails.Sunnyvale wants feedback on a policy that would set parameters for potential safe parking programs, which the …
By next fall, San Jose aims to have a long-awaited temporary housing site on the south side of the city for homeless individuals, though some are questioning why it's taking so long.The temporary emergency housing site will be built …
Los Gatos' temperature hit 107 degrees as Mason, wearing a black coat and backpack, walked from his camp in the brush toward Highway 17. He started having heat-related symptoms and laid down, heaving. He didn't want to die on the …
San Jose is set to pay for more employees and police patrols to enforce "no return zones" for homeless camps along the Guadalupe River and those surrounding temporary shelter sites citywide.An initial plan to expel more than a dozen …
The Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors on July 9 held off on a decision regarding an ordinance that would prohibit homeless encampments along waterways in the water district’s jurisdiction.
HomeFirst CEO Andrea Urton is stepping down, leaving questions about the future of one of Santa Clara County’s largest homeless support service providers.The group's board of directors said today Urton's departure is effective immediately. She led the nonprofit through …
Those living along the waterways could soon be fined or face jail time, due to a policy being considered by the largest water agency in Santa Clara County. Valley Water Board of Directors will consider the Water Resources Protection Zones …
A San Jose motel riddled with mold and roaches that houses formerly homeless residents is in ownership limbo as a continued slew of problems plague the property no matter who operates it.SureStay, a motel-turned-housing site that provides rooms for …
San Jose homeless resident Antonio de Viche prefers the streets to shelter or temporary housing, where he doesn’t feel safe. But that could all change with today's Supreme Court decision that will allow cities to ban homeless people from sleeping …
The Supreme Court agreed to intervene after an unusual coalition – including liberal leaders like Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators in Republican-led states like Arizona – urged the justices to consider the case.
Homeless residents, advocates and local officials have questions about the Sunnyvale Shelter as the facility changes nonprofit operators.The Santa Clara County-owned, 145-bed homeless shelter will change operators on July 1 from HomeFirst to the Bill Wilson Center. Residents are …
San Jose has the fourth highest number of homeless people per capita in the U.S. based on a recent survey, and advocates blame it on multiple problems.An Insider Monkey report shows that for every 100,000 people per capita, San …
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