Less than a week after Mayor Matt Mahan announced a bold push to arrest homeless people who refuse help, disturbing videos show San Jose police officers beating and verbally taunting an elderly homeless man — leading to a complaint from the local NAACP chapter. At least six police surrounded a homeless man on Fruitdale Avenue...| San José Spotlight
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is taking a hardline approach in his budget plan to get homeless people off the streets. Community advocates are calling it unjust.| San José Spotlight
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has long said he wants elected officials and city leaders to be accountable for eliminating homelessness and improving public safety. That's the centerpiece of his latest 2025-26 budget message.| San José Spotlight
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan wants Santa Clara County to scale up shelter and health treatment options in response to the city's renewed crackdown on homelessness.| San José Spotlight
San Jose officials have signed off on the mayor's plan to reallocate a majority of funding meant for affordable housing and put it toward temporary homeless shelters.| San José Spotlight
San Jose has been clearing homeless encampments along city waterways, and is looking to do the same for people living under freeways.| San José Spotlight
