San Jose: Mayor Matt Mahan’s controversial housing plan to reallocate Measure E dollars goes down amid budget hearings
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Following a monthslong salvo over how to best spend tens of millions of dollars on the city’s homelessness crisis, San Jose has decided to move roughly $8 million away from affordable housing to support interim solutions — millions less than Mayor Matt Mahan initially hoped.
The debate came to a head Tuesday evening in the midst of budget discussions, with Councilmembers Dev Davis and David Cohen leading the charge to help all sides reach a compromise.