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A recent speech highlighted this direction as a response to a broader legal and political environment. The city is moving to crack down on unsheltered homelessness by expanding existing legal frameworks, enabling authorities to remove people from streets and en masse transfer them into treatment centers or mental health facilities. It’s a move seen as an extension of a Supreme Court decision allowing encampment clearance, but San Jose aims to take it a step further—arguing for the involuntary commitment of individuals resisting intervention.