strategies to adapt to a warming planet. The Salvation Army is teaming up with San Jose and Santa Clara County to help tackle the South Bay homeless crisis. NBC Bay Area's Robert Honda shows us the new plan, including some changes that many people did not expect. The Salvation Army has been a part of San Jose since the 1800s, and at its current site on fourth Street for the past 60, but now changes are coming. Today we're announcing a reset and sort of a makeover for the Salvation Army campus. Today, leaders from Santa Clara County, San Jose and the nonprofit world unveiled plans to help the Salvation Army expand into housing more homeless. Essentially, the Emmanuel House is an 88 bed sober living environment that will be expanded to 112 and sending the overall available beds to over 300 and nonprofit advocates praised the ambitious, upgraded facilities, saying it's not true that the homeless prefer the streets. They prefer the streets to what they're being offered. They don't want to be in a bunk bed in a group shelter. Dignitas is proud to offer private rooms. If somebody has recently made the step to try to get sober, they don't want to share shelter with somebody who's shooting up at two in the morning. The Salvation Army says no one will be turned away, but if they're under the influence, know if they have the troubles? Absolutely, yes. If they have the problems. What our staff does, though, is make sure they get to a safe place. The agencies will build temporary housing on a grass lot to accommodate those who will be displaced during the transformation. Then those units will be turned into permanent housing, about a ten year project. But Mayor Matt Mahan and Council member Omar Torres say the city has been meeting with neighborhood groups to keep them in the loop. But supervisor Cindy Chavez says for the first time, Salvation Army services will be available to the spiking number of unhoused women with children. This spike, we're not just seeing it on the streets, but all of our school districts have seen an increase in the number of children that are being designated as homeless. In fact, salvation Army acknowledges it actually has a no women policy, which will officially end when the groundbreaking starts. At this site, probably sometime in
