New housing for the homeless OK'd for VTA bus yard in San Jose

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After hours of discussion and public comment on Thursday, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Board voted to move forward with putting up temporary housing for the homeless.

The site, called the Cerone yard, is located near Zanker Road in north San Jose. The board also decided to consider putting some units at alternate locations. "We've surveyed over 100 sites and this is the best one we found we've already built six of these communities they're incredibly successful," said Mahan.

"We strongly recommend being able to move forward with other sites that are more public facing that have more access to public transit that folks who live on the streets use every day," said one speaker at the podium. Workers said the Cerone yard is the only VTA property that can be expanded to build a new operations control center for its buses and trains.Employees said having a control center and homeless housing on the same site is not a good idea.

"I feel bad about the VTA workers but the people who are going into these sites are going to be vetted. There will be a locked gate," said Gail Osmer, a San Jose resident.

 

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