It’s been over a year since the state ordered San Jose to improve the way it collects and displays data on its homeless services, but the city still has work to do.
A 2024 state audit released last April gave the city seven recommendations to improve how it tracks expenses and measures effectiveness for its homeless services. The deadline was September 2024. The city has met two of those goals and is behind on five.
The two recommendations fully implemented include asking the city to set more robust annual goals that are now provided in the Consolidated Annual Homelessness Report, which combines information from multiple city departments to provide a comprehensive overview of homelessness. The other is better monitoring of temporary housing utilization through the city’s new homeless data dashboard…