San Jose, CA - In Santa Clara County, the latest survey shows more than 10,000 people are considered "unhoused." While progress to get those residents into permanent housing is slow, it is happening. On Tuesday, county leaders officially dedicated a pair of buildings which are considered both "affordable housing" and also "supportive housing."

Kathleen Avilez fell into homelessness in 2019. "

I was living in a tent, car, but I still had a job, I was working," Avilez said. Eventually the stress of being unhoused, COVID, addiction and other factors sent her to the hospital last year, where she was in a coma for a month. "Actually they gave my family two weeks to say their goodbyes."

Avilez said she can't believe where she is today: one of the very first residents to move into a new h

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