HomeFirst, one of Santa Clara County’s largest homeless service providers, announced in March that it would cease operating the county-owned shelter, saying that continuing to run the 145-bed site “within a framework that perpetuates misinformation” would be a distraction from its other work in cities including San Jose and Mountain View. In response, the county Board of Supervisors last month unanimously agreed to hand over the shelter to the Santa Clara-based Bill Wilson Center in July. (READ THE FULL ARTICLE)
