Santa Clara County Homelessness Overview

San Jose’s first safe sleeping site for homeless residents was supposed to open in March, but has been delayed by months.
The city is converting a vacant lot at 1157 E. Taylor St. near Watson Park to allow up to …

San Jose has been clearing homeless encampments along city waterways, and is looking to do the same for people living under freeways.
Mayor Matt Mahan is exploring a partnership with Caltrans to accelerate sweeps near freeways through state legislation and …

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan wants Santa Clara County to scale up shelter and health treatment options in response to the city's renewed crackdown on homelessness.
During Tuesday’s City Council discussion on Mayor Matt Mahan's 2025-26 March budget message, Councilmembers …

San Jose officials have signed off on the mayor's plan to reallocate a majority of funding meant for affordable housing and put it toward temporary homeless shelters.
The City Council voted 7- 4 in a contentious meeting Tuesday to accept …

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is taking a hardline approach in his budget plan to get homeless people off the streets. Community advocates are calling it unjust.
Mahan's upcoming 2025-26 budget message proposes several ways to tackle homeless, including reallocating …

San Jose has problems with slumlords and now they have problems with vanlords.
City officials are targeting vanlords, individuals who they said prey on the homeless residents by renting them inoperable vehicles. Mayor Matt Mahan along with Councilmembers Bien Doan, …

Less than a week after Mayor Matt Mahan announced a bold push to arrest homeless people who refuse help, disturbing videos show San Jose police officers beating and verbally taunting an elderly homeless man  leading to a complaint from the …

Last year’s initial budget projection featured an estimated $53 million shortfall. The new budget projection unveiled by Maguire this week showed a projected $46 million shortfall, the equivalent of about 3% of the city’s $1.6 billion spending plan.

San Jose homeless residents are at risk of being cited or arrested if they're caught sleeping or sitting on the sidewalk by early morning.
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend sidewalk sleeping and sitting restrictions two hours early …

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said he wants to see measurable improvements in homelessness and public safety before doling out pay raises for top city officials.
The announcement comes ahead of Mahan’s 2025-26 March budget message, set to be published …