San Jose to continue homeless sweeps, will explore encampment alternatives

The San Jose City Council voted recently to immediately resume pre-pandemic homeless encampment management and abatement procedures, as well as explore the idea of sanctioned encampments.

Essentially, the vote to resume pre-pandemic encampment management gives the city the green light to clear or ‘sweep’ encampments and move recreational vehicles that pose a public safety hazard, are in the public right-of-way, or are located near schools, day care facilities or other child-serving locations.