San Jose Spotlight: San Jose health fair provides resources to homeless residents
For more than a decade, one California state senator has hosted an annual health and resource fair for homeless people, and every year he wishes he could do more.
State Sen. Dave Cortese brought more than 50 organizations together at San Jose City Hall to offer a variety of services to dozens of homeless people Friday at the 14th annual Unhoused Health Fair. These services included food, health screenings, flu shots, housing resources, bike repairs, clothes, ID application processing and more.
“I just wish we could do it every day,” Cortese told San José Spotlight. “As heartwarming as it is, we’re sending everyone back out in the cold today, and they’ll sleep outside tonight. We don’t have a one stop (shop) location and I think we should.”