San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has a plan for the city’s homeless residents, ranging from temporary housing to encampment clearings, but the budget may not be able to support it.
Mahan plans to push for more temporary housing, camp sweeps and a program that reconnects homeless people to their families as part of budget discussions for fiscal year 2024-25. It may be tough with the city anticipating an now estimated $52.1 million budget shortfall, exacerbated by an expected increase of $25 million needed to clear encampments near creeks.
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