In Santa Clara County, there is hope for a new community to help house the homeless, following a unique strategy currently being used in Texas.

For over a decade, Columbus Park in San Jose was taken over by a sprawling homeless encampment, home to hundreds of people who were kicked out earlier this year. Today, the park is getting ready for a major renovation.

For the people who once lived there, leaders are considering a brand new community where they can forge a new future.

Aside from a few remaining traces of life, the once bustling, enormous homeless encampment at Columbus Park is now quiet.

That reality is admittedly, kind of odd, to Ray Solnik.

"It's gone," he said. "It has just disappeared, which feels weird."

But necessary, he says, for a new reality to take shape.

The homel

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