After two years in which homelessness remained a top priority for city leaders in many parts of the Bay Area, the number of people living on the street in San Jose remained virtually unchanged.
San Jose is on an odd-year schedule for its biennial point-in-time census of unhoused people, while San Francisco is on an even-year schedule. Thus we did not have an update on SF’s homeless numbers this year, but San Jose’s point-in-time count is now in. The city reports a homeless population of 6,503, up just barely from the 6,266 individuals counted in 2023.
As the Mercury News notes, this is somewhat better news than what arrived a few weeks back from the homeless census for Santa Clara County, which found an 8.2% rise in the number from two years prior…