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Walking trail use is up. Wildlife is returning. Large homeless camps have been dismantled. San Jose officials said the city has reached the end of the “era of encampments,”and is steaming ahead into its next era of slashing down street homelessness.
San Jose has reduced unsheltered homelessness by 32% over the past 18 months, using a new model of counting that pulls together data from multiple sources. The city worked with UrbanLogiq, an artificial intelligence-based data platform, and combined data from police and fire encounters with homeless residents, lived-in vehicle counts, the countywide Homeless Management Information System database of homeless people contacts by outreach workers and more…