After being evicted from her apartment, Juanita Campa was homeless for years, eventually coming to live with her 4-year-old son and his father in the Jungle, an encampment along the edge of San Jose’s Coyote Creek.
More recently, though, they moved into a hotel that serves as transitional housing for homeless children and their families. Campa’s next goal? To get her son, Sergio, who has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, enrolled in kindergarten.
“He’s a very smart kid,” Campa said.