The San Jose City Council voted to move forward with plans to open a safe parking program in the city's Berryessa neighborhood for homeless men and women living in their cars and RVs.
"There are plenty of people out here like me who are willing and capable of work, willing to be clean and eager to do things to help themselves," says Brooks Buncher who currently lives in his SUV in an encampment near the San Jose airport.
"Not everybody is out here because they want to be. Not everybody is out here because they have had a better option and chose not to. A lot of us are out here because we simply need a chance to be independent," he said."As the mother of two young kids, this is not acceptable," says Christine Li who lives near the proposed encampment. She says she's deeply concerned about what type of people may ultimately move into the city-sanctioned encampment.
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