"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.""
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.
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