After a year of living out of her car in San Jose’s Columbus Park, where rats had so overrun the city’s largest homeless encampment that residents gave them names, Tami Davis wasn’t expecting to be ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Over the years, Columbus Park has become a refuge for homeless LGBTQ+ people seeking safety in community. As San Jose gears up to sweep its largest homeless encampment, members of ...
SAN JOSE, Calif (KGO) -- A longstanding homeless encampment in San Jose is being cleared piece by piece. In one week, city crews removed over 100,000 pounds of trash ...
Despite pleas from advocates and encampment dwellers to postpone the clearing of Columbus Park, a large crew of city workers adorned in orange vests on Monday flooded the area — now cordoned off in ...
For the last 10 years, Columbus Park in San Jose wasn't a park at all. It was a home for hundreds of encampments and RVs. San Jose, though, has started Operation Cleanup Columbus, and now only a few ...
Nearly two months after San Jose cleared its largest homeless encampment at Columbus Park, some former residents say they are still without shelter and have moved to nearby camps or RVs. Advocates ...
SAN JOSE — A man’s body was found inside a recreational vehicle as the city was preparing to tow it away as part of a mass clearing of a Columbus Park encampment Monday morning, according to San Jose ...
Homelessness is not just a problem for the unhoused. It's also a problem for Bay Area cities. One of those cities, San Jose, has been taking an increasingly hard line when it comes to encampments. One ...