Mayor Matt Mahan calls for belt-tightening in budget
San Jose’s proposed $5.3 billion budget for 2024-25 shows the city tightening its belt as it prepares to shell out $27 million in the next year to clear homeless encampments …
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San Jose failed to adequately track $300M homelessness spending
Over the past three years, San Jose has failed to consistently track the more than $300 million spent to fight homelessness and cannot adequately ensure that the money is helping …
New California bill would lower school zone speed limit to 20 mph
Seventeen months after a third-grader was hit and killed in a crosswalk on his way to school, parents, educators and a state lawmaker gathered at Castlemont Elementary School on Thursday …
How much was your vote worth? One Bay Area primary race cost $47 per voter
The final votes from California’s March 5 primary are still being counted, but while the results of some races are still up in the air, it’s becoming clear just how …
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan pushes anti-displacement tenant protection
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is throwing his support behind a proposed ordinance to help low-income tenants in San Jose stay in their neighborhoods. This week, the mayor and community …
San Jose: City Council election results
While San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan may have won a clear victory in last Tuesday’s election, the results for the City Council races weren’t so immediately clear. A week later, …
San Jose Mayor Mahan releases FY25 budget priorities
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has made ending street homelessness one of his major priorities — but getting there will be expensive, and it will likely come at the cost …
San Jose wins back housing at Berryessa flea market site
San Jose may have just rescued one of its most significant urban development projects — a plan to build thousands of homes at the site of a northside flea market. Developers …
Newsom backs out of delivering 200 tiny homes to San Jose
In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to deliver 200 prefabricated tiny homes to San Jose to provide interim housing for the homeless — ready for occupancy, and at no …
San Jose to fight developers using ‘builder’s remedy’ to downsize housing projects
San Jose is the most recent city to fight back against the “builder’s remedy,” an obscure provision of state law that allows developers to build projects of any height and …