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The Podlight

New downtown San Jose councilman hits the ground running

Just weeks after taking office, San Jose Councilmember Anthony Tordillos sits down with editor Nick Preciado to discuss his historic election, policy ideas and priorities for the downtown district.

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Tents at an outdoor safe sleeping site for homeless residents in San Jose, California

Bramson: We’re triaging homelessness, but not treating its root causes

Walk into any emergency room and you’ll see it: triage. Doctors and nurses move fast to stabilize, assess and keep patients alive. It’s lifesaving work — but no one would confuse it with treatment. That comes later, when the root causes are addressed, not just the symptoms. Right now, our homelessness response is looking more and more like an ER that never quite gets patients into surgery. We’re doing triage well enough to keep things from total collapse. But treatment — the permanent fix — remains out of reach for far too many. Triage solutions in homelessness takes many forms....