State audit claims San Jose must improve homelessness response

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Last year, the state of California ordered San Jose to account for all of its homelessness spending and measure the success of its support programs. KALW’s Erin Bump has more on how the city’s fared.

San Jose has about four thousand unsheltered homeless residents living in spaces not meant for human habitation.

Nearly a year after the state audit deadline, San Jose has followed through on only two of the seven recommendations to improve its homelessness response.

The city successfully set annual goals for tackling homelessness and began monitoring the use of temporary housing.

Meanwhile, San Jose Spotlight reports that two other recommendations have been partially implemented. The first is reporting the city’s homeless finances. The second: m