Once again, many of them are claiming that permanent affordable housing is too expensive and too slow to build. But the real answer to homelessness is the one repeatedly stressed in the Community Plan to End Homelessness, recently reaffirmed by the San Jose City Council.
Studies have proven over and over again that the primary cause of homelessness is unaffordable rents. According to a 2020 Government Accountability Office report, every $100 increase in median rent...
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