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San Jose closing Taylor Street safe sleeping site as city weighs homelessness costs
SAN JOSE PLANS to decommission its only sanctioned tent homeless encampment months after it opened. The Taylor Street Navigation Hub is scheduled to close by next January as San Jose grapples with its $50 million deficit. The move comes as a shock to homeless advocates, as San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan threw his weight behind the site, […] The post San Jose closing Taylor Street safe sleeping site as city weighs homelessness costs appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, San Jose closing Taylor Street safe sleeping site as city weighs homelessness costs, SAN JOSE PLANS to decommission its only sanctioned tent homeless encampment months after it opened. The Taylor Street Navigation Hub is scheduled to close by next January as San Jose grapples with its $50 million deficit. The move comes as a shock to homeless advocates, as San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan threw his weight behind the site, […] The post San Jose closing Taylor Street safe sleeping site as city weighs homelessness costs appeared first on Local News Matters .
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