San Jose

“My district is actually one of the safest in America, right? When you look at Fremont Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose, they're all in the top 25 safe cities.”

“In San Jose, we had to move away from spending a million dollars a door to build a brand new apartment to get someone off the streets and pivot to buying sleeping cabins that can be deployed in small communities on publicly owned land, hooked up to utilities, …”

“We have led the state in reducing crime and become the safest big city in the country.”

“By the early 20 forties, San Jose will have cleared the debt.”

“Our revenue is about a third less than some of our neighboring cities, and we're delivering huge increases in sheltering people, getting housing built, reducing crime”

“I came into office running on dashboards. I mean, I put up public facing dashboards and said, here's our baseline. Here's how we compare to others. Here's the goal we're setting. We're going to reduce homelessness by 10% year over year.”

“We've added over 2000 shelter beds in my first three years as mayor, and led the state in reducing unsheltered homelessness”

“Even today, after pension reform, 19% of our general fund in San Jose this year goes to paying an unfunded pension liability that just comes off the top.”

“We've reduced unsheltered homelessness, meaning people living outside in tents and vehicles by about a third in the last few years.”