San Jose will open a safe sleeping site on a vacant lot at 1157 E. Taylor St. that can accommodate up to 56 people, including eight ADA-accessible tents. The site will operate as a navigation center to connect residents with resources and move them into housing within a month. Participants will receive three daily meals and access to showers, laundry facilities and 24/7 security. Nonprofit HomeFirst will provide case management. The city will funnel some people from a Columbus Park encampment into the site and place others into converted motels and new tiny-home developments. San Jose aims to add more than 1,000 beds this year, doubling temporary housing and reducing unsheltered homelessness. The site cost $2.6 million to build and will cost $2.4 million annually to operate.
"The vacant lot at 1157 E. Taylor St. will allow up to 56 people to sleep in tents without fear of being swept, and includes eight ADA-accessible tents. The site is meant to serve as a navigation center to connect homeless people with resources and move them into housing within a month. Participants will receive three daily meals and have access to showers, laundry facilities and 24/7 security. Nonprofit HomeFirst will provide case management."
""Our homelessness rate isn't significantly higher than cities on the East Coast. What is, is our unsheltered homelessness rate," Mahan said at a Friday news conference. "By the end of this year, we will be halfway there in the city of San Jose, but the truth is, we won't reach functional zero, 100% shelter, without getting creative and without a lot of partnerships.""
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