200+ Unit Apartment Complex's Date With Wrecking Ball Spells The Boot For Over 600 Rent-Controlled San Jose Tenants; Believed To Be Largest Mass Eviction Ever In Silicon Valley

In San Jose, California, KGO-TV Channel 7 reports:

• A mass eviction could be the largest ever in Silicon Valley with hundreds of tenants being told they must move out of their homes.
  
  The Reserve apartments located on South Winchester Boulevard near Williams Road in San Jose are slated to be demolished and replaced with new development.
  
  Everyone in the 200-plus unit apartment complex must be out by March. In its place will be new market-rate housing shops and restaurants.
  
  It's a project that's going to triple the number of apartment units at the expense of the people living there now.
  
  San Jose has no laws requiring compensation packages for evicted tenants, but the landlord is offering assistance to tenants who make less than 80 percent of the region's median income.

Source: Mass Eviction Could Be Silicon Valley's Largest Ever.

See also, Mass Eviction—San Jose’s Largest—to Displace 670 People:

• For context, consider that San Francisco called a drawn-out eviction of 100 tenants from 86 rent-controlled units the largest in the city’s history. At The Reserve, nearly seven times as many people got the boot with far less notice.
  
  To make matters worse, the South Bay city of a million has no policy on the books to help tenants pay for the forced move. This was never supposed to happen, says Randi Kinman, who chairs the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s policy advisory subcommittee, a regional planning body. Evicting 600-plus people from rent-controlled units conflicts with state-set goals to maintain housing stock for all income levels.
  
  “We kind of brush off displacement from four units here or five units there,” Kinman says. “But at no point has there been any idea that we would see this scale of displacement or that it would remove this many rent-controlled units. When I brought this up at our meeting two months ago, people wanted to know how could this possibly be happening? Everybody just kind of looked at each other and said, ‘Holy smokes.’”