Santa Clara City Council could move forward with the project that organizations say would help the homeless while they look for longer-term housing, but more than 5,300 residents have signed a petition against it.
Some residents who live in homes and apartments surrounding the proposed site are speaking up in opposition as much as they can."They're selling us something and they've changed it so many times without us being able to respond to it and when you just crunch these numbers they don't add up," MacDevitt said."There is no age limit for kids right, so the kids can be as old as eighteen years.
Tanna and another resident, Eshish Verma, brought up the unclear screening process of how people would be selected. "When somebody is bringing the transient population, without a background check, no screening whatsoever, 300 feet away from my home I have a right to say something about it," Tann said.
"There has not been any attempt made to make us feel better about any kind of screening process or background check," Verma said. Marcus explained that this project is considered Emergency Interim Housing. EIH communities are funded primarily with state and federal grants which require them to use "Housing First" principles and a "low barrier" placement process which limits what screening criteria can be applied.
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