Ray Bramson
Housing and Homelessness Columnist at San José Spotlight
Chief Operating Officer @DSTNhome. Columnist @sjspotlight. Housing. Homelessness. People. Place. We are all in it together.
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2 days ago |
sanjosespotlight.com | Ray Bramson
While it might seem unprecedented, we’ve been here before. The economy wobbles, markets panic and policymakers start sharpening their red pens. Budgets shrink. Programs are cut. And the people who always seem to take the hardest hits — the ones living on the edge — get shoved even further into the margins. Now, with federal safety net programs under threat, a possible recession looming and local governments bracing for painful deficits, we’re watching the cracks widen again.
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1 month ago |
sanjosespotlight.com | Ray Bramson
The stock market’s recent volatility and the looming threat of a recession aren’t just numbers on a screen — they’re harbingers of a deeper crisis unfolding in Santa Clara County. As economic uncertainty intensifies, the fragile balance keeping thousands of families housed is tipping dangerously toward disaster. In 2024, more than 4,000 Santa Clara County households experienced homelessness for the first time — a staggering reminder that people are losing their homes every day.
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2 months ago |
sanjosespotlight.com | Ray Bramson
It’s a simple truth: everyone needs a safe place to sleep. But instead of working to make that a reality, San Jose’s latest proposal to arrest unhoused residents is a cruel, costly and ineffective response to one of our city’s most urgent crises. The math doesn’t add up, the approach is flawed and at the end of the day this plan does more to score political points than actually solve homelessness. Let’s start with the numbers.
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Feb 10, 2025 |
sanjosespotlight.com | Ray Bramson
The wildfires in Los Angeles last month burned more than 12,000 homes and structures, displacing 100,000 people. This happened over the course of just a few devastating weeks. Around the same time on the other side of the country, the federal government briefly issued an executive order that froze funding for more than 2,000 programs that could have resulted in millions of Americans not being able to pay their rent, buy food for their families or meet their basic needs. This happened overnight.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
sanjosespotlight.com | Ray Bramson
If you ask the feds, homelessness is the worst it has ever been. In December, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its annual homelessness assessment report to Congress. The report found that 771,480 people experienced homelessness in 2024, the highest number ever recorded in the United States.
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