{"id":446689,"date":"2026-08-29T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446689\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:58:08","slug":"south-bay-leaders-called-to-do-more-to-help-homeless-population-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446689\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bay leaders called to do more to help homeless population \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty community groups have signed an open letter to Santa Clara County and the city of San Jose demanding more be done to assist the unhoused population.<\/p>\n<p>The groups say the Here4You hotline isn\u2019t connecting unhoused residents with services efficiently. They also want an end to encampment sweeps until there is adequate housing available, clearer communication on resources, as well as additional therapists and case managers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can\u2019t move on to an apartment or anything if there\u2019s not a case manager for you, and you can\u2019t get mental health services if there\u2019s no therapy,&#8221; Unhoused Response Group founder Shaunn Cartwright said.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the groups claim that, according to the coroner&#8217;s website, the county is on pace to match last year\u2019s homeless population death toll, saying 99 people have already died on the streets this year.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee said he\u2019d like to prioritize more short-term housing right away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s 99 people living in our community that could not survive, and that shows that our system is falling short,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Matching last year\u2019s homeless death rate would still mean a lower total than previous years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty community groups have signed an open letter to Santa Clara County and the city of San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1493,88,90,89,198],"class_list":["post-446689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-homelessness","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446689","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=446689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}