‘It’s just not safe for us anymore’: Businesses increasingly frustrated over SJ homelessness

REZA FARAHANI IMMIGRATED from Iran more than 20 years ago and opened his Lincoln Glass & Mirror business on Kruse Drive in North San Jose. He moved down the block a decade ago when his company expanded, but said in the last two years the surrounding neighborhood has become untenable because of rampant homelessness.

Dozens of RVs line both sides of the street, with metal scraps and trash everywhere. Farahani said his office has been broken into multiple times, gasoline and car parts are stolen weekly and his accountant has been harassed on numerous occasions when leaving the office. He said his letters to the city asking for help removing the RVS go unanswered and police fail to enforce the “no parking” rules.