San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is proposing a policy which could send the unhoused to jail if they refuse offers of shelter three different times.

As San Jose continues to look for solutions to the homelessness crisis, Mayor Matt Mahan on Thursday proposed a new idea that would essentially force people into housing and threaten arrest if they refuse three times.

In the South Bay, the mayor of San Jose is stepping up efforts to get homeless people off the streets. He’s now proposing that those who refuse help or offers of housing could be arrested. Mayor Matt Mahan has been pushing hard to reduce or eliminate homelessness on city streets.

Homeless advocates have called on San Jose to readjust its approach to homelessness, saying its aggressiveness has to more hostile rhetoric against the unhoused and was to blame for a recent