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San José Mayor Matt Mahan Wants to be Governor. Here’s A Look Into His Signature Homelessness Program⁠0%

By Ericka Cruz Guevarra⁠0% Guy Marzorati⁠71% Jessica Kariisa⁠0% Alan Montecillo⁠0%

2/9/2026, 11:00:02 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 69.5% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 165 faulty-reasoning hits from 82 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Since San José Mayor Matt Mahan took office in 2023, the city has dramatically shifted the city’s approach to homelessness from building permanent affordable housing to building more temporary shelters, with the goal of getting people off the street faster. 
Now, as he eyes the governor’s office, we look into how his signature homelessness program is going. 
Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local. 
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