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The old saying,\u00a0“It’s a jungle out there,” refers to the challenges in getting by and living your life. In San Jose an\u00a0encampment called\u00a0The Jungle provided homeless individuals and families a place of refuge from the jungle of life while “living on the streets.”<\/p>\n
Homelessness is virtually everywhere you look in California–even in wealthy\u00a0Silicon Valley where\u00a0Google, Yahoo!, Adobe, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, PayPal, eBay, Facebook, Intel, \u00a0Apple and execs of other high-tech firms rake in billions of dollars, helping push up the price of housing. San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley is one of the most expensive places to live in the world\u00a0(average price of rent is over $3,000\/mo) and also has claimed the\u00a0nation’s largest homeless encampment called The Jungle. In early Dec. 2014 just before Christmas, men, women, senior citizens, babies, children and vets living in tents and makeshift lean-to’s grabbed their precious cargo and were forced to leave. With more than 200 homeless sites counted in San Jose over the last 12 months, city\u00a0officials are aggressively cleaning out encampments before they grow. \u00a0This isn’t the first time The Jungle has been cleared out but now there’s a commitment to keep it closed by assigning patrols to guard the\u00a068-acre shantytown along Coyote Creek where upwards of 300 people have lived. Some of the displaced individuals and families from\u00a0The Jungle\u00a0were provided temporary hotel housing. Others are sleeping on buses, in cars, or wherever they can while continuing to look for safe havens. \u00a0Here is one program<\/a> that seeks to help homeless succeed. \u00a0For volunteer opportunities and donations\u00a0we put together this list last Christmas<\/a>. You can check the websites listed for current information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The old saying,\u00a0“It’s a jungle out there,” refers to the challenges in getting by and living your life. In San Jose an\u00a0encampment called\u00a0The Jungle provided homeless individuals and families a place of refuge from the jungle of life while “living on the streets.” Homelessness is virtually everywhere you look in California–even in wealthy\u00a0Silicon Valley where\u00a0Google, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}