Homelessness — The Bay Area's Most Disproportionate Crisis
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Gilroy carries a homelessness burden that few California cities its size can match. Gilroy has more than 17 unhoused residents per thousand residents — one of the highest rates in the entire Bay Area — and while the city lacks large visible encampments of the kind found in northern cities, spread-out clusters of tents and people sleeping in RVs and cars are found throughout. The most recent flashpoint: Valley Water evicted roughly 60 unhoused people from its creekside properties in Gilroy in November 2025 — the largest encampment sweep in Gilroy history — and those residents relocated to a growing encampment on Sixth Street near Camino Arroyo Drive. In February 2026, the City Council voted 4-2 to give the roughly 20 residents of that encampment — known as "Camp Hope" — 90 days to leave, despite acknowledging that the displaced residents would simply scatter to other locations around the city, since there are no permanent shelter or housing options available for them.
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