The federal grant targets unsheltered and rural homelessness in San Jose and Santa Clara County.

An emergency housing voucher program offers improvements to the decades-old federal solution to the housing affordability crisis, but landlord reluctance remains a crucial hurdle.

The City of San José said it will leverage federal emergency housing vouchers, HOME funding, and County Measure A funds to deliver 1,134 re-housing units, 683 bridge transitional units, and 861 newly-built permanent homes over the next year. 

Gateway Tower has been controversial because it will demolish two century-old buildings in the low-slung SoFA arts neighborhood.

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.

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

Nearly half of of San Jose’s elected leaders want to prevent landlords from discriminating against recipients of housing subsidies.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro announced Monday that HUD will cut mortgage insurance rates.

In Santa Clara County, 1,028 people have a rental subsidy in hand but no place to use it, leaving them in shelters or on the streets.

Santa Clara County employed a performance-based funding model to provide shelter to chronically homeless residents.

San Jose will embark on an ambitious campaign to house 6,000 homeless people in the coming five years.