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Tordillos aligns with the mayor on promoting housing development downtown and using a data-driven approach to track the city’s progress on key priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tordillos has resisted Mahan’s push for a long-term realignment of homeless dollars \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">from permanent housing to shelter\u003c/a>, and he opposed the mayor’s plan to arrest unhoused people who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">refuse multiple offers of shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He and I don’t agree on every issue,” Mahan said. “But we’ve had hours of deep conversations talking about data, and so he’s got the right mindset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045752\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabby Chavez-Lopez speaks to supporters during an election night party in San José on April 8, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez-Lopez did not concede the race on Tuesday, but acknowledged the early results were disappointing. A longtime community activist and executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, she ran with the support of the South Bay Labor Council and a long list of South Bay elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we really led a positive, affirming campaign that was really trying to play to people’s hopes more than their fears,” Chavez-Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034920/san-jose-city-council-election-headed-to-runoff-chavez-lopez-leads\">finishing first in the April 8 election\u003c/a>, Chavez-Lopez faced a deluge of negative ads in the runoff campaign, bankrolled by outside groups including the California Association of Realtors and the San José Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Realtors spent more than $160,000 in the runoff, including on mailers that labeled Chavez-Lopez “Greedy Gabby.” The Chavez-Lopez campaign believed the attack was a result of her support for expanding rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of vitriol and just attacks that I experienced as a woman, as a mother, as somebody that’s just a longtime public servant…has been something,” Chavez-Lopez said. “Hopefully, I can go out and change things moving forward and make it more of an accessible place for other women who might want to run after me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District 3 seat has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031808/homelessness-trust-center-san-jose-district-3-special-election\">marquee position on the council\u003c/a>, covering downtown, the San José State campus and historic neighborhoods such as Japantown and Guadalupe-Washington. Former mayors Susan Hammer, Sam Liccardo and Tom McEnery, along with former Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, all held the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan endorsed Anthony Tordillos after his preferred candidate, Matthew Quevedo, failed to advance to the runoff. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district is also at the center of many of the city’s vexing challenges, such as reducing homelessness and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031953/san-joses-district-3-is-picking-a-new-city-councilmember-and-the-stakes-are-high\">building a vibrant downtown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the majority of the unhoused population [in District 3] who are living in abject human suffering, so we have to address that head-on. We have this proposed plan for BART to come through downtown to bring downtown San José back to its glory,” said County Supervisor Betty Duong, who endorsed Chavez-Lopez in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s a lot of work to do and it’s going to require partnership, empathy, compassion for those who are the most vulnerable and also bold leadership,” Duong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabrielle Antolovich, board president of the Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center, thinks Tordillos will be up for the challenge. She recalled hearing him at an early candidate forum and was impressed with his policy knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You ask him a question and you actually get an answer,” she said. “And part of it is that he’s not a politician just jumping from being a regular person to becoming City Council — he’s been on the Planning Commission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I was afraid that he was a gay man…with all the negativity that’s out there about LGBTQs, and I immediately felt protective because I’m old and he’s young and I thought I’ve got to protect him from the hate out there,” Antolovich added. “But he is a completely different creature. He carries himself really well, he’s very professional and he cares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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I’ve run a policy-centric campaign focused on housing affordability and homelessness and public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tordillos is seen as more progressive than the current interim District 3 councilmember Carl Salas, but his status as a political newcomer with a broad coalition of support makes it difficult to predict how he might shift the City Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033826/low-turnout-high-stakes-district-3-election-could-shift-power-san-jose\">political alignment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/matt-mahan\">Mayor Matt Mahan\u003c/a> endorsed Tordillos after his preferred candidate failed to advance to the runoff. Tordillos aligns with the mayor on promoting housing development downtown and using a data-driven approach to track the city’s progress on key priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tordillos has resisted Mahan’s push for a long-term realignment of homeless dollars \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">from permanent housing to shelter\u003c/a>, and he opposed the mayor’s plan to arrest unhoused people who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">refuse multiple offers of shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He and I don’t agree on every issue,” Mahan said. “But we’ve had hours of deep conversations talking about data, and so he’s got the right mindset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045752\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabby Chavez-Lopez speaks to supporters during an election night party in San José on April 8, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez-Lopez did not concede the race on Tuesday, but acknowledged the early results were disappointing. A longtime community activist and executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, she ran with the support of the South Bay Labor Council and a long list of South Bay elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we really led a positive, affirming campaign that was really trying to play to people’s hopes more than their fears,” Chavez-Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034920/san-jose-city-council-election-headed-to-runoff-chavez-lopez-leads\">finishing first in the April 8 election\u003c/a>, Chavez-Lopez faced a deluge of negative ads in the runoff campaign, bankrolled by outside groups including the California Association of Realtors and the San José Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Realtors spent more than $160,000 in the runoff, including on mailers that labeled Chavez-Lopez “Greedy Gabby.” The Chavez-Lopez campaign believed the attack was a result of her support for expanding rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of vitriol and just attacks that I experienced as a woman, as a mother, as somebody that’s just a longtime public servant…has been something,” Chavez-Lopez said. “Hopefully, I can go out and change things moving forward and make it more of an accessible place for other women who might want to run after me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District 3 seat has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031808/homelessness-trust-center-san-jose-district-3-special-election\">marquee position on the council\u003c/a>, covering downtown, the San José State campus and historic neighborhoods such as Japantown and Guadalupe-Washington. Former mayors Susan Hammer, Sam Liccardo and Tom McEnery, along with former Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, all held the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan endorsed Anthony Tordillos after his preferred candidate, Matthew Quevedo, failed to advance to the runoff. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district is also at the center of many of the city’s vexing challenges, such as reducing homelessness and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031953/san-joses-district-3-is-picking-a-new-city-councilmember-and-the-stakes-are-high\">building a vibrant downtown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the majority of the unhoused population [in District 3] who are living in abject human suffering, so we have to address that head-on. 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"content": "\u003cp>After months of political acrimony in a scandal-rocked district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030375/san-jose-district-3-special-election-whos-running-and-how-to-vote\">City Council candidates\u003c/a> Gabby Chavez-Lopez and Anthony Tordillos are pledging to heal civic divides and rebuild \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031808/homelessness-trust-center-san-jose-district-3-special-election\">political trust\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033826/low-turnout-high-stakes-district-3-election-could-shift-power-san-jose\">District 3\u003c/a> ahead of a June 24 runoff election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are vying to fill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031953/san-joses-district-3-is-picking-a-new-city-councilmember-and-the-stakes-are-high\">the seat\u003c/a> formerly held by disgraced Councilmember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013122/san-jose-councilmember-omar-torres-resigns-arrested\">Omar Torres\u003c/a>, and the candidates are pitching unique bridge-building strengths. Chavez-Lopez’s ties to Santa Clara County officials could help repair a fractured city-county relationship that threatens to impede progress on reducing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tordillos, meanwhile, is the rare San José candidate with support from both sides of the city’s business-labor political divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election could scramble the political alignment at City Hall. A win by Chavez-Lopez, the executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, could weaken Mayor Matt Mahan’s moderate governing majority. Tordillos, chair of the San José Planning Commission, is endorsed by the mayor but is seen as more progressive than interim District 3 Councilmember Carl Salas, a Mahan ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s runoff election will cap a tumultuous eight months in the district that includes downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods of Northside, Japantown and Guadalupe-Washington. Torres \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014643/omar-torres-resigns-from-san-jose-city-council-is-arrested\">resigned\u003c/a> from the council in November, and was arrested the same day on charges of child sexual abuse. 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Chavez-Lopez \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034920/san-jose-city-council-election-headed-to-runoff-chavez-lopez-leads\">finished first\u003c/a> in the April special election, but fell short of the majority vote needed to win outright. An automatic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036612/recount-decide-spot-san-jose-council-election-runoff\">recount\u003c/a> determined the second spot in the runoff, with Tordillos \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037469/after-recount-tordillos-advances-to-runoff-election-for-san-jose-council-seat\">narrowly\u003c/a> edging out Matthew Quevedo, a close Mahan advisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Tordillos has picked up support from moderate groups such as Common Good Silicon Valley, an organization created by former Mayor Sam Liccardo. And while Chavez-Lopez is backed by the influential South Bay Labor Council, the region’s umbrella union group, Tordillos also has support from several labor unions and progressive organizations, including the Santa Clara County Democratic Party, which co-endorsed Chavez-Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the job center of San José, the economic center of the city, but we are also home to thousands of public-sector unionized workers, construction workers, members of the building trades — all of these workers who are really building up our city for the next hundred years,” Tordillos told KQED. “So I think that we need a council member who can speak to both of those communities and who can help to bridge that historic business-labor divide.”[aside postID=news_12037469 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-26-BL-1020x680.jpg']The divide is evident in the soured relationship between Mahan’s moderate council majority and the more progressive, labor-aligned Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Tensions rose this spring when the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">approved\u003c/a> a plan to arrest people experiencing homelessness who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">refuse\u003c/a> multiple offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara supervisors and law enforcement officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042960/soon-refusing-shelter-in-san-jose-could-get-you-arrested\">opposed\u003c/a> the plan, calling it unworkable within the county system. The two sides have yet to reconcile the city’s prioritization of shelter and short-term housing with the county’s focus on permanent housing and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez-Lopez told KQED it doesn’t make sense for the city and county to have different strategies for reducing homelessness. She said her longstanding relationships with elected officials — including the endorsement of all five county supervisors — would help her hit the ground running on the City Council if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a very important bridge that needs to be built — and fast — quite frankly,” Chavez-Lopez said. “Trust isn’t built in a day, but because I have such trusted relationships with many city leaders and many city staff, as well as all of the county board of supervisors who have endorsed me in this race … I think that there’s a real opportunity for partnership [and] collaboration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spending has continued at a furious pace since the special election. From April 7 through June 7, Tordillos’ campaign spent $124,902, while Chavez-Lopez spent $91,484.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabby Chavez-Lopez, San José City Council District 3 candidate, speaks to supporters after the first results come during an election night party in San José on April 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spending by outside groups favored Chavez-Lopez before the April vote, but has turned decisively toward Tordillos, according to filings through June 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Bay Labor Council has shelled out $103,597 to boost Chavez-Lopez. But outside groups have spent $251,840 backing Tordillos. Most of that total comes from the California Association of Realtors, which has paid $148,878 for digital ads and mailers attacking Chavez-Lopez, who supports expanded rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Eldridge, a political strategist who worked for Tordillos before the special election but is not involved in the runoff, said either candidate could emerge victorious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Chavez-Lopez] has maintained strong support from progressive and labor institutions since the beginning of her campaign, and that backing has only solidified over time,” Eldridge said. “That said, it would be a mistake to count Anthony Tordillos out. … Anthony has built his campaign from the ground up, essentially starting from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This race will likely come down to the wire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election could scramble the political alignment at City Hall. A win by Chavez-Lopez, the executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, could weaken Mayor Matt Mahan’s moderate governing majority. Tordillos, chair of the San José Planning Commission, is endorsed by the mayor but is seen as more progressive than interim District 3 Councilmember Carl Salas, a Mahan ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s runoff election will cap a tumultuous eight months in the district that includes downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods of Northside, Japantown and Guadalupe-Washington. Torres \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014643/omar-torres-resigns-from-san-jose-city-council-is-arrested\">resigned\u003c/a> from the council in November, and was arrested the same day on charges of child sexual abuse. He later pleaded \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035071/former-san-jose-council-member-pleads-no-contest-to-child-sexual-abuse\">no contest\u003c/a> and is awaiting sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-20_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-20_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-20_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-20_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-20_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-20_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-20_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, candidates running for District 3 City Council, Gabby Chavez-Lopez, Philip Dolan, Adam Duran, Irene Smith, Anthony Tordillos and Matthew Quevedo speak at a candidates forum at the San José Women’s Club in San José on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">appointed\u003c/a> Salas, an engineering executive, to fill the vacant seat in January. Chavez-Lopez \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034920/san-jose-city-council-election-headed-to-runoff-chavez-lopez-leads\">finished first\u003c/a> in the April special election, but fell short of the majority vote needed to win outright. An automatic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036612/recount-decide-spot-san-jose-council-election-runoff\">recount\u003c/a> determined the second spot in the runoff, with Tordillos \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037469/after-recount-tordillos-advances-to-runoff-election-for-san-jose-council-seat\">narrowly\u003c/a> edging out Matthew Quevedo, a close Mahan advisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Tordillos has picked up support from moderate groups such as Common Good Silicon Valley, an organization created by former Mayor Sam Liccardo. And while Chavez-Lopez is backed by the influential South Bay Labor Council, the region’s umbrella union group, Tordillos also has support from several labor unions and progressive organizations, including the Santa Clara County Democratic Party, which co-endorsed Chavez-Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the job center of San José, the economic center of the city, but we are also home to thousands of public-sector unionized workers, construction workers, members of the building trades — all of these workers who are really building up our city for the next hundred years,” Tordillos told KQED. “So I think that we need a council member who can speak to both of those communities and who can help to bridge that historic business-labor divide.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The divide is evident in the soured relationship between Mahan’s moderate council majority and the more progressive, labor-aligned Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Tensions rose this spring when the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">approved\u003c/a> a plan to arrest people experiencing homelessness who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">refuse\u003c/a> multiple offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara supervisors and law enforcement officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042960/soon-refusing-shelter-in-san-jose-could-get-you-arrested\">opposed\u003c/a> the plan, calling it unworkable within the county system. The two sides have yet to reconcile the city’s prioritization of shelter and short-term housing with the county’s focus on permanent housing and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez-Lopez told KQED it doesn’t make sense for the city and county to have different strategies for reducing homelessness. She said her longstanding relationships with elected officials — including the endorsement of all five county supervisors — would help her hit the ground running on the City Council if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a very important bridge that needs to be built — and fast — quite frankly,” Chavez-Lopez said. “Trust isn’t built in a day, but because I have such trusted relationships with many city leaders and many city staff, as well as all of the county board of supervisors who have endorsed me in this race … I think that there’s a real opportunity for partnership [and] collaboration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spending has continued at a furious pace since the special election. From April 7 through June 7, Tordillos’ campaign spent $124,902, while Chavez-Lopez spent $91,484.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-SanJoseSpecialElection-10-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabby Chavez-Lopez, San José City Council District 3 candidate, speaks to supporters after the first results come during an election night party in San José on April 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spending by outside groups favored Chavez-Lopez before the April vote, but has turned decisively toward Tordillos, according to filings through June 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Bay Labor Council has shelled out $103,597 to boost Chavez-Lopez. But outside groups have spent $251,840 backing Tordillos. Most of that total comes from the California Association of Realtors, which has paid $148,878 for digital ads and mailers attacking Chavez-Lopez, who supports expanded rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Eldridge, a political strategist who worked for Tordillos before the special election but is not involved in the runoff, said either candidate could emerge victorious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Chavez-Lopez] has maintained strong support from progressive and labor institutions since the beginning of her campaign, and that backing has only solidified over time,” Eldridge said. “That said, it would be a mistake to count Anthony Tordillos out. … Anthony has built his campaign from the ground up, essentially starting from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This race will likely come down to the wire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>John Fisher, the billionaire owner of the San José Earthquakes, is looking to sell the MLS club, the team said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Earthquakes announced in a press release that Fisher’s ownership group has started a process “to sell a controlling interest in the club,” and has hired investment firm Moelis & Company to head up the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Jose Earthquakes and PayPal Park have been an important part of our lives for nearly two decades,” Fisher said in the press release. “We are proud of the role the Quakes have played in the growth of soccer throughout Silicon Valley. The Bay Area is a special place, and we’re deeply grateful to the fans, players and staff who’ve been with us on this journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher, who also owns MLB’s Athletics, has served as the majority owner of the Earthquakes since 2008, after he and partner Lew Wolff paid $20 million to buy the rights for an expansion club in San José. That came after the Earthquakes’ former owner, AEG, moved their team to Houston to become the Dynamo at the end of 2005, and there was no professional soccer in San José during the 2006 and 2007 seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher’s group could see a significant profit on the sale, with the club valued at $540 million by \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinbirnbaum/2025/02/21/the-most-valuable-mls-teams-2025/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, which is below the league average of $690 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team’s press release did not offer a reason for the sale. Team officials declined an interview request from KQED on Wednesday. The news of the potential sale was first reported late Tuesday night by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportico.com/leagues/soccer/2025/san-jose-earthquakes-sale-john-fisher-1234857003/\">Sportico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10444190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10444190\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The San Jose Earthquakes, a professional soccer team, finally gets a permanent home called Avaya Stadium.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José Earthquakes’ Avaya Stadium, currently named PayPal Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San José Earthquakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if Fisher is selling to help finance his $1.75 billion, 33,000 capacity stadium project in Las Vegas, where the former Oakland baseball team would play, which is scheduled to break ground next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher uprooted the Athletics from Oakland at the end of the 2024 season, much to the chagrin of untold numbers of A’s fans in the Bay Area. The team is currently playing the first of at least three seasons in a Minor League Baseball park in West Sacramento, sharing it with the River Cats before the planned move to Sin City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher’s family has said it plans to contribute $1 billion toward the project, and Nevada lawmakers pledged up to $380 million in public funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Fisher’s group opened what was then called Avaya Stadium, a privately financed, $100 million soccer-specific stadium next to San José Mineta International Airport, as the team’s new home facility.[aside postID=news_12044302 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-13-KQED.jpg']The stadium is currently named PayPal Park, and last year also became the home field of Bay FC, of the National Women’s Soccer League, which will host its championship at PayPal Park this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stadium has also played host to several major events, including US National Women’s Team matches, several 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup matches, and earlier this year, a sold-out Liga MX friendly between Chivas de Guadalajara and Atlas FC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with a modern stadium, attendance for Quakes games in the 2024 season was fourth-lowest in the league of what was then 29 teams, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.transfermarkt.us/major-league-soccer/besucherzahlen/wettbewerb/MLS1/plus/?saison_id=2023\">Transfermarkt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the club has made some significant signings in the last year, including paying a club record of roughly $7 million for Argentine midfielder Hernán López, and bringing on five-time MLS Cup champion Bruce Arena as its new head coach. The league has since added a 30th team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan told KQED he views the potential sale as an opportunity for the team and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An opportunity for more investment, new energy, an opportunity to take the team to the next level,” he said. “The hope with any new ownership group is that they’ll come in with some fresh energy and extra resources to put into the team and that will help the team compete for a championship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan added that city leaders are laying out a vision to create a future sports entertainment district in the western portion of downtown, near the SAP Center where the San Jose Sharks have long played, and thinks the area could be a future home for the Earthquakes and Bay FC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re looking at their future home, I want them to think first and foremost of downtown San José as the place to put down roots,” he said. “We’re a soccer city. We love our Quakes and we love Bay FC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether a potential new owner would keep the Earthquakes’ previous $50 million commitment for a potential eight-field public-private soccer training facility at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary deal between San José, the county and the team was struck in late 2023 to explore creating such a facility that would be partially open to youth soccer teams and the public, but Mahan said the county has stalled the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is also investing in creating a second training facility on the site of a parking lot and tailgate area behind PayPal Park, and is updating some team facilities, including dining rooms and coaches’ meeting rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher, who also owns MLB’s Athletics, has served as the majority owner of the Earthquakes since 2008, after he and partner Lew Wolff paid $20 million to buy the rights for an expansion club in San José. That came after the Earthquakes’ former owner, AEG, moved their team to Houston to become the Dynamo at the end of 2005, and there was no professional soccer in San José during the 2006 and 2007 seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher’s group could see a significant profit on the sale, with the club valued at $540 million by \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinbirnbaum/2025/02/21/the-most-valuable-mls-teams-2025/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, which is below the league average of $690 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team’s press release did not offer a reason for the sale. Team officials declined an interview request from KQED on Wednesday. The news of the potential sale was first reported late Tuesday night by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportico.com/leagues/soccer/2025/san-jose-earthquakes-sale-john-fisher-1234857003/\">Sportico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10444190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10444190\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The San Jose Earthquakes, a professional soccer team, finally gets a permanent home called Avaya Stadium.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14420_IMG_1886-qut-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José Earthquakes’ Avaya Stadium, currently named PayPal Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San José Earthquakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if Fisher is selling to help finance his $1.75 billion, 33,000 capacity stadium project in Las Vegas, where the former Oakland baseball team would play, which is scheduled to break ground next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher uprooted the Athletics from Oakland at the end of the 2024 season, much to the chagrin of untold numbers of A’s fans in the Bay Area. The team is currently playing the first of at least three seasons in a Minor League Baseball park in West Sacramento, sharing it with the River Cats before the planned move to Sin City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher’s family has said it plans to contribute $1 billion toward the project, and Nevada lawmakers pledged up to $380 million in public funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Fisher’s group opened what was then called Avaya Stadium, a privately financed, $100 million soccer-specific stadium next to San José Mineta International Airport, as the team’s new home facility.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Leaders of five major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847203/food-banks-in-the-bay-area-how-to-find-and-support-your-local-facility\">Bay Area food banks\u003c/a> are sounding the alarm about massive and unprecedented cuts to a critical federal food assistance program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of Congress wrestle over how to defray the costs of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\"> President Donald Trump’s tax cut plan,\u003c/a> the federal\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032878/gop-cuts-to-medicaid-snap-would-shrink-californias-economy-by-17-billion-and-kill-nearly-140000-jobs-new-study-finds\"> Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\u003c/a>, known as SNAP — or CalFresh in California — is at risk of a nearly $300 billion cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, called it “the greatest rollback of food assistance that we have seen in our modern U.S. history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a large slashing could severely hamper the program, reducing or ending benefits for nearly 700,000 people in the Bay Area alone, and roughly 40 million across the U.S., forcing even greater reliance on food banks that are already stretched thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to serving anyone who needs food. We are committed to showing up every day, but we cannot replace a gutted federal safety net,” Bacho said during a news conference Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie Bacho, the CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, speaks during a press conference in San José on June 17, 2025, about potential cuts to the federal SNAP program. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area, food bank leaders said demand for the supplemental nutrition they provide is already at or near all-time highs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanis Crosby, executive director of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, said a December 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/hunger-report-2023/\">survey \u003c/a>showed its clients were already struggling with historic levels of food insecurity, even before pandemic benefits ended and inflation more harshly pushed up prices on so many basic foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And now we’re facing this, the most consequential cut to SNAP in our lifetimes. And it’s a choice. It’s a policy choice that this government has,” Crosby told KQED. “We need to reject this bill. We need to reject these cuts. They are not necessary, and it’s going to leave tens of thousands of people without the benefits that they rely on to survive.”[aside postID=news_12032878 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/pexels-matheus-cenali-2733918-1020x680.jpeg']Historically, when SNAP benefits are reduced, such as when increased pandemic-era assistance ended, more people struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table lean on the network of pantries and organizations that distribute healthy staples from regional food banks into communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second Harvest, for example, serves both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, and officials say the nonprofit is currently providing meals to about 500,000 people every month, or roughly one out of every six people in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regi Young, the executive director of Alameda County Community Food Bank, said one in every four people is struggling with food insecurity in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that most of the families that receive food from us are already working families, but they don’t make enough money to be able to thrive in, quite frankly, one of the most expensive places in the country,” Young said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we have a lot of families who are leveraging the monetary value of the food that they receive in order to supplement other costs — their rents, their utilities, their child care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044813 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regi Young, the executive director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank, speaks during a press conference in San José on June 17, 2025, about potential cuts to the federal SNAP program. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federal benefits go by several names, including SNAP, CalFresh, EBT, or food stamps, and often come in the form of a reloadable debit card that people can use to purchase groceries and snacks at grocery stores, retailers and farmers markets. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a large slashing could severely hamper the program, reducing or ending benefits for nearly 700,000 people in the Bay Area alone, and roughly 40 million across the U.S., forcing even greater reliance on food banks that are already stretched thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to serving anyone who needs food. We are committed to showing up every day, but we cannot replace a gutted federal safety net,” Bacho said during a news conference Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie Bacho, the CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, speaks during a press conference in San José on June 17, 2025, about potential cuts to the federal SNAP program. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area, food bank leaders said demand for the supplemental nutrition they provide is already at or near all-time highs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanis Crosby, executive director of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, said a December 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/hunger-report-2023/\">survey \u003c/a>showed its clients were already struggling with historic levels of food insecurity, even before pandemic benefits ended and inflation more harshly pushed up prices on so many basic foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And now we’re facing this, the most consequential cut to SNAP in our lifetimes. And it’s a choice. It’s a policy choice that this government has,” Crosby told KQED. “We need to reject this bill. We need to reject these cuts. They are not necessary, and it’s going to leave tens of thousands of people without the benefits that they rely on to survive.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Historically, when SNAP benefits are reduced, such as when increased pandemic-era assistance ended, more people struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table lean on the network of pantries and organizations that distribute healthy staples from regional food banks into communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second Harvest, for example, serves both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, and officials say the nonprofit is currently providing meals to about 500,000 people every month, or roughly one out of every six people in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regi Young, the executive director of Alameda County Community Food Bank, said one in every four people is struggling with food insecurity in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that most of the families that receive food from us are already working families, but they don’t make enough money to be able to thrive in, quite frankly, one of the most expensive places in the country,” Young said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we have a lot of families who are leveraging the monetary value of the food that they receive in order to supplement other costs — their rents, their utilities, their child care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044813 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regi Young, the executive director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank, speaks during a press conference in San José on June 17, 2025, about potential cuts to the federal SNAP program. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federal benefits go by several names, including SNAP, CalFresh, EBT, or food stamps, and often come in the form of a reloadable debit card that people can use to purchase groceries and snacks at grocery stores, retailers and farmers markets. In California, anyone earning up to 200% of the\u003ca href=\"https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/dd73d4f00d8a819d10b2fdb70d254f7b/detailed-guidelines-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> federal poverty (PDF)\u003c/a> level is eligible, which for a family of four would be up to $64,300 each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It boggles my mind that in the wealthiest country in the world, that we would actively dismantle our most successful hunger relief program and take away vital resources from communities that need it the most in order to support tax cuts for the wealthiest members of our communities,” Young said during the news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food bank leaders say the benefits not only help those most in need, such as working-class families, students, people with disabilities and seniors, but also support local economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A dollar of SNAP is generating $1.80 of economic benefit to that local community,” said Allison Goodwin, the president and CEO of Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa. “So not only are those families with young children given money into their pocket to purchase groceries, those dollars are going back out to those local retailers, grocers, food producers, the drivers that get it there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250617-FOODBANKS-JG-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member carts away a pallet of boxes filled with mixed fruit and vegetables at the Second Harvest of Silicon Valley warehouse in San José on June 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The proposed cuts to SNAP are the equivalent of roughly 9.5 billion meals annually, local officials said, which is far more than the entire charitable food system across the U.S. provides each year, at about 6.5 billion meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caitlin Sly, the president and CEO of the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, said food banks have faced many crises before, such as the 2008 recession and the pandemic in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And every single time, our federal government has come through to help us weather those storms,” Sly said. “Unfortunately, right now, our federal government is creating a crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preserving SNAP benefits isn’t just about preventing more people from going hungry, Bacho added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is also about dignity, and it’s about stability,” she said. “It is about the basic human right to survive in a country that has the means to do better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County officials\u003c/a> celebrated the opening of a new residential treatment facility in San José on Thursday that will provide shared living space for people in jail diversion programs with mental health treatment needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening of what’s known as the Vermont House, just off The Alameda, will add 15 beds to the county’s growing inventory of places for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977258/despite-progress-santa-clara-county-sees-sharp-rise-in-first-time-homelessness\">people who need transitional housing\u003c/a> and different levels of treatment or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a stable and secure roof over one’s head helps to diminish all of the other challenges one may face,” Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee said Thursday during an event marking the opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By investing in these additional pathway-toward-treatment services, we can get more people toward care more quickly so that they can get the help they need. And by investing in these programs, we’re improving the quality of life for everyone in our community,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vermont House beds are spread across two homes, each of which will include a room for a live-in manager or site supervisor, and there will be “wraparound” services for tenants, including case management to help with things such as job placement or benefits applications. There will also be security on site during the week, at night and on weekends, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044069\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A private bedroom is seen on June 12, 2025, at Vermont House in San José, a newly opened residential treatment facility for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melissa Santos, head of people and workforce development at Community Solutions, the contractor who operates Vermont House for the county, said the program’s clients also can receive support for shopping and meal planning and therapy sessions, among other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, the idea is independent living. We’re building their skills, and we’re helping them to gain the skills that they need to then go on with the next chapter of their lives,” Santos said.[aside postID=news_12043787 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED.jpg']The program aims to keep clients at the home for about six months to a year, and, during that time, works to find a permanent housing opportunity for them, whether it be an individual apartment or rejoining family or friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county purchased the Vermont House property from San José in January using a California Health Facilities Financing Authority grant. The city previously ran a program for housing formerly homeless veterans at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house will now serve as a “middle ground for people leaving incarceration whose mental health does not require hospitalization or crisis stabilization, but would benefit from a structured treatment environment and support,” the county said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone, every resident here will have their own bedroom, their own space, closet, bed, beautiful light, windows and a dresser and the ability to close the door and to have privacy and security while they are proceeding on their journey back toward health,” Supervisor Susan Ellenberg said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg speaks during an event celebrating the opening of Vermont House, a new residential treatment facility in San José for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When residents walk through here, my anticipation and hope is that they immediately feel at home, that they feel well taken care of, that they feel comfortable,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event on Thursday, Ellenberg and other supervisors appeared to allude to an ongoing war of words with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan\u003c/a>, with whom they have clashed over his recently approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">Responsibility to Shelter plan\u003c/a>, which aims to get unhoused people into temporary housing by arresting them if they refuse shelter multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has called on the county to expand shelter and treatment services as part of his campaign around the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every level of government bears responsibility,” Ellenberg said in an interview. “So, of course, we need to expand services, and we are working with urgency to do so. We are literally moving at the fastest speed possible in order to expand these services. 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This is not a problem that we can incarcerate and criminalize our way out of,” Duong said during the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Ellenberg and Lee’s leadership, the county in 2022 declared a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903644/santa-clara-county-considered-building-a-mental-health-facility-instead-of-a-new-jail-it-chose-the-jail\">mental health crisis\u003c/a> and set a goal to add 530 more beds for people with varying mental health needs by 2030, on top of the 1,060 the county oversaw at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is nearly 40% toward the goal, officials said, having added 208 beds since July 1, 2022, including a mix of acute facilities, mental health community homes, substance use homes and withdrawal management centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 227 beds are in the pipeline, the county said, including 77 in development at the planned Behavioral Health Services Center on the Valley Medical Center campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, supervisors were expected to approve the county’s annual budget, including about $870 million for behavioral health programs and services, the county said. The funds will go toward expanding treatment bed capacity, substance use treatment services and a new mobile narcotic treatment program, among other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The city previously ran a program for housing formerly homeless veterans at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house will now serve as a “middle ground for people leaving incarceration whose mental health does not require hospitalization or crisis stabilization, but would benefit from a structured treatment environment and support,” the county said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone, every resident here will have their own bedroom, their own space, closet, bed, beautiful light, windows and a dresser and the ability to close the door and to have privacy and security while they are proceeding on their journey back toward health,” Supervisor Susan Ellenberg said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg speaks during an event celebrating the opening of Vermont House, a new residential treatment facility in San José for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When residents walk through here, my anticipation and hope is that they immediately feel at home, that they feel well taken care of, that they feel comfortable,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event on Thursday, Ellenberg and other supervisors appeared to allude to an ongoing war of words with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan\u003c/a>, with whom they have clashed over his recently approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">Responsibility to Shelter plan\u003c/a>, which aims to get unhoused people into temporary housing by arresting them if they refuse shelter multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has called on the county to expand shelter and treatment services as part of his campaign around the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every level of government bears responsibility,” Ellenberg said in an interview. “So, of course, we need to expand services, and we are working with urgency to do so. We are literally moving at the fastest speed possible in order to expand these services. I would love to see all of our cities work at that same speed to expand the supply of housing at all levels of income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017754/meet-betty-duong-santa-clara-countys-first-vietnamese-american-supervisor\">Supervisor Betty Duong\u003c/a>, who represents the area where the Vermont House is located, said such facilities will be critical in the push to end homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong speaks during an event marking the opening of Vermont House, a newly opened county-run residential treatment facility in San José for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that true solutions require critical, clinical, true compassion and care. 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"content": "\u003cp>As increasing arrests by federal immigration authorities continue, stoking fears in immigrant communities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> is allocating at least $1 million to support undocumented residents in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the city’s budget beginning on July 1, city council members on Tuesday approved dipping into reserves to shore up legal defense services, real-time community support during immigration raids and financial relief for families in crisis after arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council also agreed to consider approving an additional $500,000 toward those services later this year, if funds are available during mid-year budget reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who championed the increased funding, said this is the largest investment ever by San José to protect immigrants, motivated in part by what he described as the terror being inflicted on city residents by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.[aside postID=news_12042751 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Child-CBP-Agents.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already know our immigrant community is scared. They’re not going to school, they’re not going to work, people are scared to go to their local corner store because they are getting picked up. ICE is following people once they leave their house, as soon as they get out of their car, they get picked up,” Ortiz said Tuesday evening, after the approval vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of gave the motivation to the council to follow through with what I believe is San José values, a community that welcomes immigrants and stands up when they’re under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money from the city can be used for a variety of purposes, including legal defense funds to help people “who are stuck in the deportation machine,” Ortiz said. It will also help build up the Rapid Response Network, which works to alert communities when ICE is present, observe immigration enforcement actions and inform people of their rights when they are being detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the money could go to families who need help making ends meet after the breadwinner of their household is arrested, Ortiz said, and for long-term immigrant advocacy work to make sure communities are prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action reflects an increasingly visible commitment to build resilience and preparedness in immigrant communities in the South Bay and to match or outpace the efforts of federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uriel Magdaleno, an organizer with the Silicon Valley Immigration Committee, chants into a megaphone during a protest outside an ICE office in South San José on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past week, protests and rallies opposing the actions of ICE have taken place in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043139/san-jose-immigrant-advocates-protest-sweeping-ice-arrests\">San José\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043653/hundreds-rally-in-oakland-to-protest-ice-raids-support-immigrant-communities\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, opposing ICE arrests made at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices, ICE offices and immigration courts in those communities and across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the recent escalations of immigration authorities played a role in pushing council members to approve a bigger spend, Ortiz said there were months of advocacy efforts and organizing by a coalition of South Bay groups, including Amigos de Guadalupe, Siren and the Rapid Response Network of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s draft budget initially included about $250,000 for immigrant support, and in a recent memo by Mayor Matt Mahan, who previously attended community meetings to hear from families directly affected by immigration enforcements, he recommended it be doubled to $500,000.[aside postID=news_12043139 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-2-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José’s greatest strength is our diverse community and the immensely talented people who\u003cbr>\ncontinue to be drawn to our valley from across the world,” Mahan wrote. “Given recent rhetoric and policy action at the federal level, we have an obligation to help our immigrant community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Maldonado, the executive director of Amigos de Guadalupe, said her organization is focused on ensuring residents and families feel empowered “to speak truth to power” about their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community will protect itself once they’re empowered to do so and see wins like what we just saw with the $1 million,” she said. “We’re in it for the long game, and it doesn’t happen overnight. It’s smart organizing, it’s strategic and it’s bringing our leaders along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the city’s efforts will be a boon and complement the $5 million in additional immigrant support funding Santa Clara County pledged in December, following the election. But more support from other government agencies, individuals and philanthropic groups will be needed to sustain the efforts, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These dollars are more critical than ever,” Maldonado said. “Our work is about our neighbors and all of us as a community rising up together as one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmarzorati\">Guy Marzorati\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already know our immigrant community is scared. They’re not going to school, they’re not going to work, people are scared to go to their local corner store because they are getting picked up. ICE is following people once they leave their house, as soon as they get out of their car, they get picked up,” Ortiz said Tuesday evening, after the approval vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of gave the motivation to the council to follow through with what I believe is San José values, a community that welcomes immigrants and stands up when they’re under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money from the city can be used for a variety of purposes, including legal defense funds to help people “who are stuck in the deportation machine,” Ortiz said. It will also help build up the Rapid Response Network, which works to alert communities when ICE is present, observe immigration enforcement actions and inform people of their rights when they are being detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the money could go to families who need help making ends meet after the breadwinner of their household is arrested, Ortiz said, and for long-term immigrant advocacy work to make sure communities are prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action reflects an increasingly visible commitment to build resilience and preparedness in immigrant communities in the South Bay and to match or outpace the efforts of federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uriel Magdaleno, an organizer with the Silicon Valley Immigration Committee, chants into a megaphone during a protest outside an ICE office in South San José on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past week, protests and rallies opposing the actions of ICE have taken place in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043139/san-jose-immigrant-advocates-protest-sweeping-ice-arrests\">San José\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043653/hundreds-rally-in-oakland-to-protest-ice-raids-support-immigrant-communities\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, opposing ICE arrests made at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices, ICE offices and immigration courts in those communities and across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the recent escalations of immigration authorities played a role in pushing council members to approve a bigger spend, Ortiz said there were months of advocacy efforts and organizing by a coalition of South Bay groups, including Amigos de Guadalupe, Siren and the Rapid Response Network of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s draft budget initially included about $250,000 for immigrant support, and in a recent memo by Mayor Matt Mahan, who previously attended community meetings to hear from families directly affected by immigration enforcements, he recommended it be doubled to $500,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San José City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">approved a controversial plan\u003c/a> to potentially arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter — part of a series of votes on Tuesday that delivered a sweeping victory for San José Mayor Matt Mahan and his agenda for reducing homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With city finances on a stable course, Mahan used the budget process to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">advance ambitious policy priorities\u003c/a>, particularly a more aggressive, shelter-focused approach. That included the shelter-or-arrest plan and an effort to prioritize city homeless funding for temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will help us end the era of encampments,” Mahan told KQED. “It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s a step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The votes came as the council balanced a $1.7 billion general fund budget without large workforce cuts, and made a historic investment in legal defense in preparation for increased federal immigration enforcement. Mahan didn’t win support for his entire agenda, as his push to tie a portion of council and mayoral pay to the city’s performance on a variety of metrics was rejected by the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cities across California are weighing more aggressive action on homelessness after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">U.S. Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> gave local officials more powers to sweep encampments, Mahan pitched his Responsibility to Shelter plan as a more humane alternative to simply clearing camps without offering shelter.[aside postID=news_12042370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which passed the council on a 9–2 vote, would add an expectation of accepting shelter to the city’s Code of Conduct for Encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s humane or compassionate to allow people to live or die on our streets when they are unable or unwilling to accept the help the city is able to offer,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s police chief said violations of the code, which include camping near a shelter site, would guide police to prioritize specific encampments for outreach, and eventually arrests, such as for trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure will also create new police and housing units for outreach and enforcement. Mahan said he hoped to use arrests to compel unsheltered residents into court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responsibility to Shelter faced widespread skepticism from Santa Clara County officials — including members of the board of supervisors, the district attorney and the county sheriff — who argued the measure will push unhoused people into the criminal justice system without adding more housing for them while they receive treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a rally outside the Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Ortiz opposed the shelter enforcement plan, joined by Councilmember Pamela Campos. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who joined Councilmember Pamela Campos in opposition to the shelter enforcement plan, said the measure unfairly assumes that everyone who refuses shelter is suffering from addiction or mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who simply declines shelter could be susceptible to being arrested, when many reasons for denying [shelter] are relevant and should be taken into consideration,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement plan is likely to be carried out primarily in areas around interim housing sites, where the city has established no-encampment zones. Mahan argued that compelling unhoused people to accept shelter will help improve conditions on the streets around new shelters, which he views as key for maintaining political support for the interim housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for that program’s ongoing costs, the council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">permanently\u003c/a> earmark the lion’s share of tax revenue raised through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">Measure E\u003c/a>, a tax on property sales, for temporary housing and shelter. The new Measure E spending plan sets aside 90% for shelter costs ($47 million in 2025–26) and 10% ($5.2 million) for homeless prevention programs such as rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos pushed to increase the prevention funding to 15%, but a majority of the council rejected that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are put in this predicament of having to do a lot with less, prevention just makes sense,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clusters of tents belonging to unhoused residents line the banks of Coyote Creek near Tully Road in San José on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By covering interim housing costs with the Measure E fund, rather than the general fund, the council erased a $35.6 million budget shortfall — and avoided the need for the large staffing cuts needed to balance municipal budgets in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It preserves our staffing, which is really, really important,” Councilmember Pam Foley said. “Because they’re the ones who provide the services that we need to do the work in the city that our residents depend upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the added fiscal breathing room, the council approved a memo from Ortiz to spend at least $1 million on immigration services, including on-call lawyers and programs to educate undocumented residents about their rights.[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing our families being unfortunately hunted down by the federal government,” Ortiz said. “This is more than a budget line, it’s recognition of the vital role our undocumented neighbors play in the vibrancy and resiliency of the city of San José.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council also set aside $27 million in reserves to reduce an anticipated shortfall in the 2026–27 fiscal year from $52.9 million to $25.9 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan found little support for his idea to withhold 5% of mayor and council pay, dispersing the money only if the city achieved council-approved goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan argued the proposal would drive greater council focus to achieve benchmarks such as lower crime and homelessness rates. But many council members said the goals could be easily manipulated to achieve success — or alternatively push council members to pursue goals not supported by their district’s constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job performance is judged by the ballot box,” Councilmember Bien Doan said. He said the plan “hands decision-making power to whoever controls the metric, not the people we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Mahan said he hoped to use arrests to compel unsheltered residents into court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responsibility to Shelter faced widespread skepticism from Santa Clara County officials — including members of the board of supervisors, the district attorney and the county sheriff — who argued the measure will push unhoused people into the criminal justice system without adding more housing for them while they receive treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a rally outside the Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Ortiz opposed the shelter enforcement plan, joined by Councilmember Pamela Campos. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who joined Councilmember Pamela Campos in opposition to the shelter enforcement plan, said the measure unfairly assumes that everyone who refuses shelter is suffering from addiction or mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who simply declines shelter could be susceptible to being arrested, when many reasons for denying [shelter] are relevant and should be taken into consideration,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement plan is likely to be carried out primarily in areas around interim housing sites, where the city has established no-encampment zones. Mahan argued that compelling unhoused people to accept shelter will help improve conditions on the streets around new shelters, which he views as key for maintaining political support for the interim housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for that program’s ongoing costs, the council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">permanently\u003c/a> earmark the lion’s share of tax revenue raised through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">Measure E\u003c/a>, a tax on property sales, for temporary housing and shelter. The new Measure E spending plan sets aside 90% for shelter costs ($47 million in 2025–26) and 10% ($5.2 million) for homeless prevention programs such as rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos pushed to increase the prevention funding to 15%, but a majority of the council rejected that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are put in this predicament of having to do a lot with less, prevention just makes sense,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clusters of tents belonging to unhoused residents line the banks of Coyote Creek near Tully Road in San José on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By covering interim housing costs with the Measure E fund, rather than the general fund, the council erased a $35.6 million budget shortfall — and avoided the need for the large staffing cuts needed to balance municipal budgets in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It preserves our staffing, which is really, really important,” Councilmember Pam Foley said. “Because they’re the ones who provide the services that we need to do the work in the city that our residents depend upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the added fiscal breathing room, the council approved a memo from Ortiz to spend at least $1 million on immigration services, including on-call lawyers and programs to educate undocumented residents about their rights.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:19 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay transit officials overseeing the $12.7 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998646/feds-commit-5-1-billion-to-south-bay-bart-extension\">BART extension\u003c/a> through downtown San José are looking to cut ties with the project’s primary contractor due to a dispute over cost, a move that could cause even more delays for the backed-up public works project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leadership of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will recommend to its board of directors in upcoming meetings that the public transit agency take an “offramp” out of the contract it has in place with Kiewit Shea Traylor — a joint venture of three large and well known contractors charged with the major tunneling and track work of the massive project — and find a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe it’s time to explore a fresh start,” Tom Maguire, VTA’s head of megaprojects, told reporters on Monday during a briefing of the plans. The VTA is responsible for planning and building the extension project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contractor has been on the project since 2022, and is responsible for large portions of work that are already underway, including the building of a $76 million tunnel boring machine, and the preparation of a launch structure where the boring machine would be put into the ground in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials said KST would be owed a maximum of about $1 billion for the work it has already begun and would still plan to complete if the VTA board decides to end the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maguire said VTA and KST have not been able to come to an agreement about the “lump sum” cost of the rest of the planned work, including the tunneling and excavation needed for underground stations, and the tracking and creation of entrances and exits, despite negotiating since last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"The mayor of San Jose stands behind a podium. A poster breaking down the project budget is displayed next to the speaker.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks during a gathering in Santa Clara on Aug. 2, 2024, to announce a nearly $5.1 billion funding commitment from federal transit officials toward the VTA BART Silicon Valley Phase II extension project. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is about making sure that a contractor who can’t give us a price that is within our budget, that we hold them accountable,” Maguire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency created an internal task force to seek out other contracting opportunities and has begun conversations with 10 national tunnelling contractors that have shown “strong interest in taking this project on in a way that fits within VTA’s budget and model,” Maguire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for KST declined an interview Monday, but in an emailed statement to KQED said, “KST remains focused on safely and successfully delivering its current scope of work” on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of the project’s second phase — which is planned to extend BART six miles from its current end of the line at Berryessa Station in North San José and run west to create four new stations ending in Santa Clara — has been a major stumbling block for transit officials and local and regional leaders almost since its inception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While originally pegged at a budget of $4.7 billion in 2014, with an intended completion date in 2026, the entire project is currently estimated to cost $12.7 billion and is expected to be completed in 2037.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the potential change of contractors, Maguire said tunneling work, which was expected to start this year in recent estimates, is likely to be pushed out to 2027. However, Maguire said the completion date for the project overall is not being changed for the moment, and that a potential redesign with a new contractor could accelerate the timeline.[aside postID=news_12043139 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-2-KQED.jpg']The BART extension notched a major milestone in August when the Federal Transit Administration said it would commit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998646/feds-commit-5-1-billion-to-south-bay-bart-extension\">$5.1 billion\u003c/a> to help pay for the project. While significant, the pledge also left a roughly $1.2 billion gap in funding for the project, which is also being largely paid for with regional tax measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit officials and local leaders said at the time they were confident the budget hole could be addressed, in part by allocating $500 million more from a regional tax measure into the project than was previously committed. The remaining gap of roughly $700 million is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal funds were pledged under President Joe Biden’s administration, the agency would need to apply for a grant agreement to access the money from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While officials said the agency is confident the project will still be a viable one in the eyes of the federal government as it works through balancing its budget, Maguire noted that VTA “has gotten some pretty clear advice” against asking for $5 billion from a Trump-controlled Federal Transportation Administration right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s administration has recently pulled back billions for the state’s long-delayed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042706/california-high-speed-rail-is-a-track-to-nowhere-us-says-in-move-to-pull-funding\">High Speed Rail project\u003c/a>, and a $20 million grant to improve transit between \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997068/sf-planned-to-improve-treasure-islands-transit-trump-took-back-the-funds\">Treasure Island and San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot said the decision to hold off on applying for the funds is largely based on needing to cut costs, but acknowledged it is partially political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also need to get a clear and better understanding about what the administration wants to see,” Gonot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell Mayor Sergio Lopez, the chair of the VTA board and the vice chair of the oversight committee, said that by evaluating tough decisions like this one, the agency is showing the leadership necessary to keep the project going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that there haven’t been major problems with KST’s work to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not about quality, it’s not about safety. There’s complete alignment on those. It’s really just disagreements about the costs and the services,” Lopez told KQED Monday. “But when we went out to multiple respected independent cost estimators, there was just a stark gulf in terms of the expected cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire didn’t share details about how much the agency expects to save through finding a new contractor, but said it would be one part of an overall price reduction strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to shopping around, the agency is looking at reshaping the tunneling contract package, as well as changing the risk-sharing agreement between VTA and a potential new contractor, and adjusting the schedule of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain fully committed to finding ways to cut costs and reduce the overall program schedule to ensure that we stay within our overall funding and budget,” Maguire said. “We do think that the offramp and restructuring the tunnel contract is going to give us a better price, and that better price is going to help us secure the long-term viability of the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oversight committee and board will also hear more details about other potential cost-saving measures in upcoming meetings, including a value engineering report. The agency also plans to share long-awaited results of an independent consultant’s analysis of the VTA’s twin-bore construction alternative and cost estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has long been committed to a huge, single tunnel design that would be deeper underground than standard BART tunnels, but has faced increasing criticism for previously dismissing a shallower, two-tunnel approach, which could disrupt businesses and traffic on city streets for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if KST would sue VTA over the ending of the contract or other aspects of the agreement with the agency. Maguire acknowledged “you can never say never,” about being sued, but said the agency is confident “we’ve got a very, very strong case moving forward, and we’re not deeply concerned about an action from [KST].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan, the chair of the oversight committee, said in a statement he supports VTA’s efforts to control costs on this “once in a generation” project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a blank check for this project, and it’s important that everyone — from the agency to its contractors — is held accountable for staying within budget,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials will first make the offramp recommendation to the BART Silicon Valley Phase II Oversight Committee at its meeting on June 12 at noon. The full VTA Board of Directors, who have the final say on the decision, will consider the recommendation at its meeting on June 27 at 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“VTA remains unwavering in its commitment to complete this extension of the BART service to Silicon Valley and produce these last six miles in a way that is financially responsible, technically sound, and fully accountable to the public,” Gonot said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So every decision we make is rooted in our responsibility to deliver a project that transforms our region with transparency, efficiency and lasting benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The remaining gap of roughly $700 million is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal funds were pledged under President Joe Biden’s administration, the agency would need to apply for a grant agreement to access the money from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While officials said the agency is confident the project will still be a viable one in the eyes of the federal government as it works through balancing its budget, Maguire noted that VTA “has gotten some pretty clear advice” against asking for $5 billion from a Trump-controlled Federal Transportation Administration right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s administration has recently pulled back billions for the state’s long-delayed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042706/california-high-speed-rail-is-a-track-to-nowhere-us-says-in-move-to-pull-funding\">High Speed Rail project\u003c/a>, and a $20 million grant to improve transit between \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997068/sf-planned-to-improve-treasure-islands-transit-trump-took-back-the-funds\">Treasure Island and San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot said the decision to hold off on applying for the funds is largely based on needing to cut costs, but acknowledged it is partially political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also need to get a clear and better understanding about what the administration wants to see,” Gonot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell Mayor Sergio Lopez, the chair of the VTA board and the vice chair of the oversight committee, said that by evaluating tough decisions like this one, the agency is showing the leadership necessary to keep the project going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that there haven’t been major problems with KST’s work to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not about quality, it’s not about safety. 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At Friday’s protest, District 5 City Councilmember Peter Ortiz characterized the federal administration’s actions toward immigrants as “domestic terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are targeting residents, law-abiding residents, for nothing more than simply not having papers, for not having citizenship. That’s disgusting. That’s things that we see in fascist governments, and it’s happening here in our very own backyard,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Ortiz also issued a memo asking his city council colleagues to approve allocating an additional $1 million in the upcoming city budget toward emergency support for immigrants and undocumented residents, in addition to the $500,000 Mayor Matt Mahan allocated in a draft budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already apparent from these last two weeks that ICE activity has been increasing. We’ve seen more than ten people detained last week; we’re seeing more detained this week. Our community can’t wait. Our gente can’t wait,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are under attack, and it’s the city’s job to make sure that the people of the city of San José are safe, regardless of their citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a protest against ICE in South San José on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, an ICE spokesperson appeared to push back on the characterization of the arrests by advocates, but declined to offer specifics about the people arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those arrested had executable final orders of removal by an immigration judge and had not complied with that order. If you are in the country illegally and a judge has ordered you to be removed, that is precisely what will happen,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervision program “exists to ensure compliance with release conditions. All illegal aliens are afforded due process,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 2 City Councilmember Pamela Campos, who represents the area where the protest took place, said the city of San José is beautiful because it was built on the strength of a diverse immigrant population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so every single day that we have a federal government, a federal administration that tries to challenge that, that tries to threaten our immigrant community, we are going to stand up and fight back,” Campos said during the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of volunteers and activists held signs outside the USCIS office that read “No Deportations!” and “ICE out of San José.” They chanted slogans like “Stand up, fight back,” and “Si, se puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters then marched from the USCIS office down Blossom Hill Road to continue their action outside a local ICE office, with cars honking all along their route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group entered the office building that houses an ICE office, which was closed, and then exited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They then rallied outside of Chavez Supermarket on Blossom Hill Road, where ICE agents were reported to have been conducting arrests earlier in the week in unmarked vans and cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong, who represents District 2 — the highest concentration of immigrants in the county — thanked the protesters for speaking up for those who can’t speak for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s dangerous right now in this current political climate, against the backdrop of federal legislation which is unduly burdening immigrants and targeting immigrant communities,” Duong told KQED. “These are folks who say, ‘We will not back down. We will protect our neighbors and our friends and our community members.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uriel Magdaleno, an organizer with the Silicon Valley Immigration Committee, said part of the goal of protests like these is to encourage local residents and activists to “out-organize ICE” through efforts like barrio walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uriel Magdaleno, an organizer with the Silicon Valley Immigration Committee, chants into a megaphone during a protest outside an ICE office in South San José on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we seek to do is go door to door, letting people know of their rights, passing out ‘Know Your Rights’ literature, engaging with the community,” Magdaleno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Letting the community know how they can stand up against ICE — how the community can intimidate ICE instead of ICE intimidating us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Our gente can’t wait,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are under attack, and it’s the city’s job to make sure that the people of the city of San José are safe, regardless of their citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a protest against ICE in South San José on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, an ICE spokesperson appeared to push back on the characterization of the arrests by advocates, but declined to offer specifics about the people arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those arrested had executable final orders of removal by an immigration judge and had not complied with that order. 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All illegal aliens are afforded due process,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 2 City Councilmember Pamela Campos, who represents the area where the protest took place, said the city of San José is beautiful because it was built on the strength of a diverse immigrant population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so every single day that we have a federal government, a federal administration that tries to challenge that, that tries to threaten our immigrant community, we are going to stand up and fight back,” Campos said during the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of volunteers and activists held signs outside the USCIS office that read “No Deportations!” and “ICE out of San José.” They chanted slogans like “Stand up, fight back,” and “Si, se puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters then marched from the USCIS office down Blossom Hill Road to continue their action outside a local ICE office, with cars honking all along their route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group entered the office building that houses an ICE office, which was closed, and then exited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They then rallied outside of Chavez Supermarket on Blossom Hill Road, where ICE agents were reported to have been conducting arrests earlier in the week in unmarked vans and cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong, who represents District 2 — the highest concentration of immigrants in the county — thanked the protesters for speaking up for those who can’t speak for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s dangerous right now in this current political climate, against the backdrop of federal legislation which is unduly burdening immigrants and targeting immigrant communities,” Duong told KQED. “These are folks who say, ‘We will not back down. We will protect our neighbors and our friends and our community members.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uriel Magdaleno, an organizer with the Silicon Valley Immigration Committee, said part of the goal of protests like these is to encourage local residents and activists to “out-organize ICE” through efforts like barrio walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uriel Magdaleno, an organizer with the Silicon Valley Immigration Committee, chants into a megaphone during a protest outside an ICE office in South San José on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we seek to do is go door to door, letting people know of their rights, passing out ‘Know Your Rights’ literature, engaging with the community,” Magdaleno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Letting the community know how they can stand up against ICE — how the community can intimidate ICE instead of ICE intimidating us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Driving over the Bay Bridge into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, the vast, mostly barren compound that’s home to the Treasure Island Job Corps Center doesn’t look like much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students gaining certifications in culinary arts, construction, hospitality and other blue-collar careers at the trade school say it has been a lifeline for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1999, thousands of low-income youth and young adults have gotten high school diplomas and trade certifications while living and working at the federally funded site. Now, more than 350 who were enrolled as of last week are at risk of losing that lifeline in the coming weeks, as the Department of Labor plans to pause operations at Job Corps centers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have nowhere to go,” said Eddie Lopez, 19, one of dozens of students, staff members and community advocates who gathered Thursday to protest the termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez came to the center four months ago, after couch surfing in the East Bay and trying to find a job to support himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students, staff and supporters rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We came here with nothing — no job, no home, no support system — and now they expect us to find something in a couple of days. It’s just really heartbreaking and horrifying and inhumane,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez and other students at Treasure Island found out last week that they would need to leave the island after the Department of Labor announced it would indefinitely pause operations at the end of June at the vast majority of its 131 trade schools that offer free schooling, housing and healthcare to low-income 16 to 24 year olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement that the department had reviewed the program and determined that it was “no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve,” based on a review of serious incident reports at Job Corps sites and the financial impact of the program, which operated with a $140 million deficit in 2024.[aside postID=news_12042125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250529-JOBCORPSCENTER-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']About 250 of the 375 students who resided on Treasure Island prior to the DOL’s announcement have already left, and more are preparing to leave by the end of the week, according to Lacy Barnes, a representative for the Union of Teachers and Classified Professionals, which represents the center’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042125/trump-pauses-job-corps-leaving-san-jose-trade-students-in-turmoil\">similar exodus\u003c/a> has happened at the San José Job Corps site, where another 350 students found out last Thursday that their program would be shut down, and some were told to pack their bags within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, including Lopez, plan to stay on campus until they’re forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to a trade group representing Job Corps center operators suing the Department of Labor over its abrupt announcement, ordering the department not to pause work or terminate agreements with contractors until a further ruling. The order lasts through June 17, when a hearing is scheduled in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter grants the contractors an injunction that would extend until the case could be decided in court, Barnes worries that the chaos over the last week cannot be rectified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The damage that’s incurred — we can’t recoup that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who come to job corps centers escaped difficult home situations or were previously unhoused, and are at heightened risk if they are forced to return to those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Moncrease, who recently completed the culinary program at Treasure Island, said without it, he isn’t sure he would see a future where he has a legal job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into gang life, I sold drugs, and I almost ended up in jail multiple times,” he said. “This program not only saved my life, but saved the lives of countless other students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to Job Corps, Moncrease said he and his siblings had been moved around nine states and more than 50 counties by his mother, who was struggling with drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went wherever the drugs were, and we went with her,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Jeffers, president of the Council of Classified Employees (CFT), listens to speakers during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he landed in Antioch with his father, where he said he was abused. Job Corps gave him an escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last eight months, I have completed my culinary trade, I have got my managers and my food handler certificates, and I’ve been taught how to stand strong and proud and be who I am,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center also provided a second chance for the Pierson-Jurik family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annette Pierson and Kathryn Jurik gave their daughter Eren a choice last year: go to Job Corps, or find a place to live on her own, without their help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were having family difficulties, and we were trying to help our daughter launch,” Jurik said. “Things were getting really rough, and we gave her the choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Eren’s been at the center, they’ve been able to repair their family relationship. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>About 250 of the 375 students who resided on Treasure Island prior to the DOL’s announcement have already left, and more are preparing to leave by the end of the week, according to Lacy Barnes, a representative for the Union of Teachers and Classified Professionals, which represents the center’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042125/trump-pauses-job-corps-leaving-san-jose-trade-students-in-turmoil\">similar exodus\u003c/a> has happened at the San José Job Corps site, where another 350 students found out last Thursday that their program would be shut down, and some were told to pack their bags within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, including Lopez, plan to stay on campus until they’re forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to a trade group representing Job Corps center operators suing the Department of Labor over its abrupt announcement, ordering the department not to pause work or terminate agreements with contractors until a further ruling. The order lasts through June 17, when a hearing is scheduled in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter grants the contractors an injunction that would extend until the case could be decided in court, Barnes worries that the chaos over the last week cannot be rectified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The damage that’s incurred — we can’t recoup that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who come to job corps centers escaped difficult home situations or were previously unhoused, and are at heightened risk if they are forced to return to those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Moncrease, who recently completed the culinary program at Treasure Island, said without it, he isn’t sure he would see a future where he has a legal job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into gang life, I sold drugs, and I almost ended up in jail multiple times,” he said. “This program not only saved my life, but saved the lives of countless other students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to Job Corps, Moncrease said he and his siblings had been moved around nine states and more than 50 counties by his mother, who was struggling with drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went wherever the drugs were, and we went with her,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Jeffers, president of the Council of Classified Employees (CFT), listens to speakers during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he landed in Antioch with his father, where he said he was abused. Job Corps gave him an escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last eight months, I have completed my culinary trade, I have got my managers and my food handler certificates, and I’ve been taught how to stand strong and proud and be who I am,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center also provided a second chance for the Pierson-Jurik family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annette Pierson and Kathryn Jurik gave their daughter Eren a choice last year: go to Job Corps, or find a place to live on her own, without their help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were having family difficulties, and we were trying to help our daughter launch,” Jurik said. “Things were getting really rough, and we gave her the choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Eren’s been at the center, they’ve been able to repair their family relationship. Eren was able to finish her trade program last week, and on Friday, she’s moving back to her parents’ house in Santa Rosa, with new guardrails in place to ensure they can live together healthily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a sign that says, ‘Job Corps saved my family,’ because we were deteriorating,” Jurik said. “Now we can be together, and spend time and talk. … we can sit around and have adult conversations and she can bring her friends home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and others hope the program can continue: “It’s priceless. Whatever it costs is priceless for one kid,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a warm May afternoon, Butch Larson and David Garcia leaned intently over a makeshift workbench outside Larson’s tent, one of a dozen lining the Guadalupe River Trail in South \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above them, cars roared along an overpass on Highway 85, enveloping the encampment in an unceasing din, but providing the pair a break from the midday sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson tinkered with the underside of a small skateboard. He worked slowly, still recovering mobility in his right arm after suffering a stroke last year. Larson has been unhoused since 2012, living for the last four years in this encampment off Cherry Avenue. Garcia arrived a year or two later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.[aside postID=news_12029843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-10-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg']Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.[aside postID=news_12026437 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:19 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-valley-transportation-authority\">Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority\u003c/a>‘s largest labor union has approved the transit agency’s latest contract offer, bringing an end to nearly a year of negotiations that included a historic and disruptive 17-day strike in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, including bus drivers, light rail operators, maintenance workers and dispatchers, voted 689-298 to ratify the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042427/south-bay-transit-workers-to-vote-on-new-vta-contract-offer-after-historic-strike\">new proposal from the VTA\u003c/a>, which includes a 14.5% wage increase spread over four years. The voting took place all of Tuesday, and the results were tallied by the early morning hours on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Per the agreement, if the union returns the signed version of the contract to the agency by noon Wednesday, the VTA will present the contract to the agency’s board of directors for final approval at their meeting on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once approved by the board, the contract would go into effect on June 9 and run through June 4, 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Richardson, VTA’s deputy general manager, said at a press conference Wednesday morning that officials are “delighted” that the union supported the contract, which he said will allow for the agency to predictably manage labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement achieves an important and necessary balance to allow VTA to operate within the financial limits of declining sales tax-based revenue, while also providing meaningful wage increases that reflect the vital contributions of our employees,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ATU Local 265 President Raj Singh was not immediately available for comment Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the union, Singh thanked members for voting and sharing their voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We acknowledge and recognize that these past several months have been really difficult, that this offer did not completely address all of our needs. However, you, the majority, have spoken and the democratic process must be recognized,” Singh wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/VTA-Day-15-Singh_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/VTA-Day-15-Singh_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/VTA-Day-15-Singh_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/VTA-Day-15-Singh_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/VTA-Day-15-Singh_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/VTA-Day-15-Singh_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/VTA-Day-15-Singh_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265 President Raj Singh shares the results of a vote on a contract offer from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pact puts an end to months of tense and at times bitter contract talks between the agency and the union that began in August but didn’t result in a contract, leading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030584/santa-clara-county-transit-grinds-to-a-halt-as-vta-workers-strike\">a historic strike\u003c/a> on March 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work stoppage by roughly 1,500 ATU members ground VTA services to a halt, leaving tens of thousands of riders across Santa Clara County without the buses and trains they rely on. Large proportions of VTA riders represent populations with fewer options for transportation, including many who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030951/vta-strike-underscores-silicon-valleys-widening-income-inequality\">earn very low incomes\u003c/a> or are students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA almost immediately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030759/vta-sues-to-end-historic-south-bay-transit-workers-strike\">sued the union\u003c/a>, claiming the action violated their contract’s “no-strike” clause. 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