AS 2022 COMES to a close, advocates are remembering the 246 homeless people who died on Silicon Valley streets.
About 70 residents gathered in McEntee Plaza at Santa Clara County Government Center in San Jose on Wednesday for a memorial service featuring rows of makeshift tombstones, each with the name of a homeless person who died between December 2021 and November this year. Among those who died, 146 were seniors. More than half were people of color. Three babies and seven teenagers and young adults between ages 16 and 25 also died on the streets this year.
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