San Jose homeless upset their belongings were taken

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Bags of belongings were packed up and shipped off in San Jose on Monday. The people who used to live "The Jungle" homeless encampment were kicked out of another location.

"By the time we unzipped our tent, they were moving our stuff for us," a homeless woman said.

For the second time in less than two weeks, homeless pack up their things and leave their encampment. This time, a group was evicted off Senter and Tully Roads in San Jose about two miles from where they used to live, a site known as "The Jungle."

"I barely had time to put my shoes on and they had the cleanup crew already in my stuff, throwing stuff away... just like it's nothing, like we're nobodies," one homeless man said.

The city cleared The Jungle Dec. 4th, but some continue camping outside.

"This is the same question that we were asking before when they closed out The Jungle. If not here, then where?" another homeless man said. He saw a pickup truck carrying his garbage bags of belongings and said, "He's hauling it away. I wonder where he's taking it."

"There are services available. There is support available," Ray Bramson said.

Bramson is San Jose's homeless response manager. He says they are using every resource possible to get homeless into stable living environments. They've already housed nearly 150 people since the original eviction.

"Encampments represent an unsafe, unsanitary and unstable place. We don't want people to be at risk," Bramson said.

We found a group of homeless gathering near the library on Tully Road. Members of a Buddhist temple gave them rain boots to make the move easier. Some of them are waiting on housing and say in the meantime want a legal place to camp.