Complaints surge as San Jose clears out ‘The Jungle’ encampment

This week, San Jose began its latest effort to clear out the city’s largest homeless encampment, known as many as “The Jungle.” However, just days into the sweep, there’s growing complaints that the city isn’t keeping promises to more than a hundred unsheltered people being it’s displacing.

The homeless encampment at Coyote Meadows, known as The Jungle, has been around in some form since 2012. This week, the city started a new effort to close it for good, but the city says it started warning people living here two months ago.

The goal of that early warning was to ensure all of them had somewhere to go. Officials said 109 people agreed to move into temporary housing, mainly tiny homes in the Cerone Interim Housing Community…

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