San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Discusses Homelessness in the City of San Jose

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan joins the Santa Clara University Unhoused Initiative for a discussion about his strategy for responding to the homelessness crisis.
Event held 4 - 5 p.m. PDT Thursday, April 4, 2024
Santa Clara University, Bergin Hall, 116
About Mayor Matt Mahan
Mayor Matt Mahan is serving his first term as Mayor of San Jose. He was raised in Watsonville, California, and attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. He then attended Harvard University, and graduated in 2005. After graduation, Mayor Mahan spent a year building irrigation systems in Bolivia, and then joined Teach for America where he worked at Alum Rock Middle School. In 2008, Mayor Mahan joined a tech start-up and helped develop “Causes,” an early Facebook application that raised money for nonprofit organizations. He became CEO and president of Causes in 2013. In 2014, Mayor Mahan co-founded Brigade Media, a tech company focused on civic engagement. In January 2021, Mayor Mahan was sworn in as the Councilmember for San Jose’s District 10. In September 2021, he entered the race for Mayor and was elected in November 2022. He will be up for re-election in 2024.
About the SCU Unhoused Initiative
Homelessness is one of the most pressing social justice needs of our time. According to the 2022 Point in Time Homelessness Survey, over 10,000 people are experiencing homelessness in Silicon Valley. Unhoused individuals are often stigmatized, criminalized and generally seen as a problem, rather than as individuals who deserve respect, dignity and all the usual benefits of being in a community. The Unhoused Initiative seeks to center the dignity of people experiencing homelessness in the discussion of our community response to it through research, events, University-wide engagement and community collaboration. Learn more at: scu-unhousedin....
This event is co-sponsored by the SCU Unhoused Initiative and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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super lame. Matt Mahon needs to go. From this, I was disappointed to learn he just wants to incentivize the homeless industrial complex