From rat-infested Columbus Park encampment to chandelier boutique hotel, San Jose’s homeless plan is tested

After a year of living out of her car in San Jose’s Columbus Park, where rats had so overrun the city’s largest homeless encampment that residents gave them names, Tami Davis wasn’t expecting to be relocated to a boutique hotel with crystal chandeliers, maid service and TVs in every room.

“It’s almost too fancy,” said Davis, 61, said of the Bristol Hotel, where a mobile laundry service comes by once a week, Goodwill Industries knocks on doors offering jobs for $18 an hour and a vet clinic updated shots for her little dog, Trixie.