The city is evaluating nine properties as potential locations.
Unhoused resident, Joe Barnett, 34, an Iraq War veteran, who’s been living by the creeks for the past 6 years, talks during an interview at his tent along the Guadalupe River near Coleman Avenue in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, June 17, 2024.
During a tour of homeless camps along the Guadalupe River on Monday, Mayor Matt Mahan said the proposed sites will be critical to the city’s commitment to state water officials to drastically reduce the amount of trash and pollution flowing into its waterways over the next year. The locations the city is considering include an empty lot at 14020 Almaden Road, as well as 1157 East Taylor St., where squatters last year took over a city-owned home at the property. The sites are a mix of properties owned by San Jose, Santa Clara County the Santa Clara County Water District.
After three rejections, the water board recently approved the city’s plan to clean up its hundreds of miles of waterways. Mahan said the agency could fine the city tens of thousands of dollars daily if local officials fail to move enough people away from its creeks and rivers by June 2025. San Jose wouldn’t be the first city to try sanctioned encampments. The city has cited a managed camp in San Diego, which provides individual tents and basic security and sanitation, as a successful model.
There’s also legal uncertainty about whether sanctioned encampments constitute the “adequate shelter” cities are expected to offer before clearing unmanaged camps. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, has signaled it may overturn that requirement in a decision set for this month.According to preliminary estimates, setting up the managed camps could cost between $18,000 and $40,000 per tent. For 500 tent spaces, that comes to around $9 million to $20 million.
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