Local officials are reporting a sharp uptick in homeless people seeking health services in South County – a trend they credit to successful outreach. South County patient encounters with the Valley Homeless Healthcare Program — which provides mobile and fixed-site primary care, substance abuse and oral health services — have exceeded last year’s totals. As...
San Jose housing commissioners against mobile home rent increase
The San Jose Housing and Community Development Commission is recommending not to raise rents for residents living in the city’s 58 mobile home parks. A majority of commissioners on Thursday didn’t support a proposed 10% increase to space rents once a mobile home is sold. The city Housing Department proposed the increase as a way...
San Jose Viet Museum’s future unclear
Patience is wearing thin amid a battle for control of a museum honoring San Jose’s Vietnamese community — and both sides of the fight could end up losing. History San Jose, a nonprofit which cares for History Park and its historic buildings and resources on Phelan Avenue, has kept the Viet Museum closed since last...
Bay Area public transit riders can use bank cards to ‘tap-and-ride’
The long-awaited rollout of the new generation of the Clipper Card payment system started Wednesday, with Bay Area travelers now able to pay for public transit trips more efficiently and conveniently. Clipper will transition the individual cards of passengers over the next 12 weeks with new features that will allow people to instantly add money...