Freezing temperatures across the Bay Area is causing concern about the safety of the thousands of people who sleep on the streets.
In San Jose, the city says it had street outreach teams making the rounds this week, warning about the dangers of the cold, and trying to get people move inside to shelters. Non-profits, like CHAM, were out in force too.
Largent says the weather was so cold several weeks ago that some of the city’s homeless population began to suffer from a form of hypothermia called paradoxical undressing.
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