Coyote News

The yard of a makeshift home at a homeless camp at Coyote Creekf unctions as a kitchen and living room, in San Jose, Calif.

Forty years ago, San Jose had earned a reputation as Los Angeles North: The sprawl icon of the Bay Area, it had grown through vast, cul-de-sac subdivisions and with the expectation that everybody would drive everywhere.

Dave Larson sitting on the edge of trail of the Guadalupe River Park, in San Jose, Calif.

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