Starting Monday, the City of San Jose plans to help rehouse 120-200 people living along the waterway. Valley Water says it will make flood improvements along the waterway, but advocates say with limited shelter space and housing, the people living there won’t have any place to go.
"Some people moved from Columbus Park to Corie Court. Some people are original Corie Court people but what’s going to happen is people are going to get swept to creek or another area, and then that area is going to get swept. So on and so on," said Shaun Cartwright, founder of Unhoused Response Group.
Starting Monday, the City of San Jose plans to help rehouse 120–200 people living along the waterway. Valley Water says it will make flood improvements along the waterway, but advocates say with"Some people may end up in tiny homes and for those people, it’s just a revolving door. You go in for six months, and you come back out because there’s.
Back in January, city officials issued a mandatory evacuation order and San Jose police worked to get people living along Coyote Creek to move to higher ground.Homeless advocates say they’re concerned about where people will go when along the creek is no longer an option. "There’s not enough tiny homes and there’s not enough permanent supportive housing. Permanent housing is the key," Cartwright said.
KTVU reached out to San Jose’s Housing Department for comment, but they didn’t respond in time for this report.
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