{"id":414737,"date":"2026-07-28T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414737\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:27:08","slug":"one-year-after-columbus-park-sweep-former-residents-remain-stuck-in-temporary-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414737\/","title":{"rendered":"One year after Columbus Park sweep, former residents remain stuck in temporary housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">WHEN SAN JOSE DISMANTLED its largest homeless encampment last summer, Mayor Matt Mahan praised moving hundreds of people out of Columbus Park into housing. However, residents said their experience in temporary housing has pulled them backward, not forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One year after the city swept the 370 RVs that had congregated in Columbus Park, many people are still\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-homeless-residents-wait-for-temporary-housing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">languishing in temporary housing<\/a>\u00a0with little prospects for a permanent place to live. About\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanjoseca.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/125619\/638971570673030000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200 people<\/a>\u00a0accepted placements\u00a0in one of the five motels the city had just converted into temporary shelters.\u00a0Yet former park residents said the stringent rules and treatment at the motels \u2014 and subsequent placement into tiny homes \u2014 have stripped them of their freedoms, causing them to spiral into depression.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHEN SAN JOSE DISMANTLED its largest homeless encampment last summer, Mayor Matt Mahan praised moving hundreds of people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[380,33131,48854,25056,1493,1011,21149,2093,31529,88,90,89,881,39986,29242],"class_list":["post-414737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-affordable-housing","tag-columbus-park","tag-encampment-sweeps","tag-homefirst","tag-homelessness","tag-housing","tag-mayor-matt-mahan","tag-mental-health","tag-motel-6","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-spotlight","tag-tiny-homes","tag-wehope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}