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East San Jose community aims to restore youth center

An East San Jose collective has stepped in to save the Mexican American Community Services Agency youth center...

San Jose to get more maternity services

A new maternity clinic offering holistic care is coming to West San Jose. It still means moms in...

San Jose to crack down on RV rentals to homeless

San Jose has problems with slumlords and now they have problems with vanlords. City officials are targeting vanlords,...

San Jose police beat homeless man as mayor pushes arrests

Less than a week after Mayor Matt Mahan announced a bold push to arrest homeless people who refuse...

Palo Alto looks to create new neighborhood on San Antonio

The strip of San Antonio Road east of Alma Street hardly looks like Palo Alto’s most inviting housing...

San Jose firefighters take part in cancer research after initial denial

San Jose said no to letting its firefighters participate in a state-funded cancer prevention and research program —...

The Podlight

Meet Silicon Valley’s first Vietnamese-American county supervisor

Betty Duong made history in November by becoming the first Vietnamese-American leader elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Host Nick Preciado chats with Duong about her background and vision for the future.

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East San Jose Apartments

Perry: We need real plans, not false promises

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan recently announced a new mathematical model developed by the housing department would “enable San Jose to end unsheltered homelessness” for only 5% of the cost of previous models. Unfortunately, this claim is a gross distortion of reality and of what the new model itself actually says. For years now, the mayor and his real estate industry backers have complained that the cost of ending San Jose homelessness with permanent housing is about $1 million per unit, or about $5 billion overall. This not only exaggerates the actual unit costs, but ignores the fact that some...