'As the numbers go up, there's so many people that fit in that category that you would never think has experienced homelessness,' SJSU student and Student Homeless Alliance member, Lana Gomez shared.
"We need to be thinking about long-term solutions. Building relationships, you know, that's something that people don't think about. The importance of community," Gomez said."It is all of our problem," she said. "You see somebody outside on the street in San Jose - that shows there's something wrong with our community. That shows there's something wrong with our system.
"This is, I think, the way to regenerate our population to take this generation of homeless and catch them right as they're leaving their last solid set of federal benefits when they're 17, 18 years old," Sen. Cortese said. "And interrupt the cycle of homelessness right there.""Just that little bit of help can mean food on a table, can mean transportation to be able to get to that job. You know, it's not enough to cover rent by far.
Dr. Myers-Lipton suggested, "We could do better on just the minimum wage. We can figure out ways to subsidize rent for our folks, particularly these 18 to 24-year-old folks, we could do that." Advocates say anything to shake up the norm, otherwise the city risks ranking number one in youth homeless for years to come.
"I think that's the last thing we want our city known for," Cortese told ABC7 News. "Or our county for that matter."If you're on the ABC7 News app,
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