Last month, Cecilia Martin became one of more than 140 once-chronically homeless tenants to move into the first-of-its-kind complex.

The question of whether to raise taxes forged an unlikely alliance between the most conservative and most progressive council members. 

If elected officials had the political will, they’d address the issues with the seriousness it deserves rather than platitudes like “we can do better.”

San Jose’s homeless population went from 4,350 in 2017 to 6,172 this year. For Santa Clara County, it grew by 31 percent.

Such an emergency facility would provide basic shelter, showers, food, storage of belongings, and should permit animal companions.

The first-term councilwoman, who represents the city’s affluent and politically active Willow Glen district, says she welcomes the challenge.

The program would make San Jose eligible for state funds to incorporate minority and lower-income dispensary workers into the local industry.

With a new governor at the helm, the career lawmaker is ready to take another crack at bills vetoed time and again by past administrations.

We need to show our unhoused neighbors compassion and protect them when the city, county and others fail to do so.

San Jose will offer additional training and protection for the rangers who patrol the city’s 100-plus parks and 50-plus miles of trails.

A San Jose dad is paying $1,500 a month on a studio for his daughter’s cats because they don’t get along with the family’s new terrier.

The Board of Supervisors authorized $123 million in Measure A funds for hundreds of below-market-rate housing units in six local cities.

San Jose expects to have 80 tiny cabins built by next summer to house homeless people until they find a long-term place to stay.

San Jose has arrived at a fork in the road: we can either tax tech to build homes and transit, or we can recommit to a broken status quo.

It will take years before the tech company realizes its vision for the city’s core. But a key vote this week lays the groundwork.

Santa Clara County’s multi-agency All the Way Home campaign has housed 1,237 homeless veterans since 2015, according to a new report.