From NIMBY to YIMBY: San Jose forges difficult path to winning over neighbors in sheltering homeless

When the city of San Jose first proposed building “tiny homes” for homeless people in a park smack in the center of Marsey Kahn’s South San Jose neighborhood in 2017, she and her neighbors fought it bitterly — and won.

Now, eight years later, the neighborhood is so pleased with an alternative project that just opened last month, on Cherry Avenue across the Guadalupe River, residents here raised money for welcome baskets and wrote kindly notes with each one. Many of them even gave up their weekend to set up bedrooms with sheets...