Responding to the unhoused student crisis in East San Jose
There might not be a more important\u2026 and sometimes complicated\u2026 conversation to be had in the Bay Area then the one about homelessness\u2026
It\u2019s a crisis that every county is facing\u2026 and many are trying to find a solution that works for everyone\u2026\xa0
The city of San Jose recently pushed to speed up the building of 200 tiny homes to be put on a VTA-owned lot\u2026 to help provide shelter for those who are unhoused\u2026
But in the meantime\u2026 the number of people who are homeless seems to continue to grow\u2026 and that\u2019s being felt especially in East San Jose\u2026 and for a specific group of people \u2013 high school students.
So\u2026 what\u2019s behind this increase in students being homeless in East San Jose\u2026 and what\u2019s being done to help them?
For a closer look at this\u2026 we\u2019re going to start our conversation off with Sergio Diaz-Luna\u2026 director of communications with the East Side Union High School District\u2026
Next... some of the support that unhoused students in East San Jose receive comes from the East Side Education Foundation\u2026 and so we\u2019ll turn to Carlos Singh\u2026who is the executive director of the foundation\u2026 and a lecturer at San Jose State\u2026