San Jose Officials Break Ground on Interim Housing Site for Homeless People

Vowing to break the era of encampments, San Jose’s mayor officially kicked off construction of a new interim housing site for homeless people.

Vowing to break the era of encampments, San Jose's mayor on Thursday officially kicked off construction of a new interim housing site for homeless people.

"I think that for much of the homeless population, this kind of opportunity is going to be appropriate," Mahan said."It’s going to give them a leg up, an opportunity to achieve greater levels of self sufficiency, but it won’t solve the problem for everyone." "I’ve been holding on to that faith," Samuel Robinson said."It’s hard at times. I'm under the weather. My health is deteriorating. I’m losing more and more. I guess we gotta move all that out of the way to get to a better picture."

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