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A Year After 'The Jungle,' San Jose's New Approach to Homelessness

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As the weather turns wet and cold, it's hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down "The Jungle," one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The city forced out about 300 people, but that's just a fraction of San Jose's homeless population. A year later, the Jungle is fenced off, and thousands of people are still camping out in creek beds and freeway underpasses all over the city. KQED's Rachael Myrow tells us San Jose is starting to shift its strategy towards the chronically homeless, following other cities with major homeless populations.

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