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City Council Focus Areas

The purpose of the City Council Focus Areas is to hold the City of San José accountable to driving positive outcomes and performance on a very limited number of priorities most greatly impacting the community and to generate actionable and measurable solutions to address these priorities.

The 2025-2026 City Council Focus Areas are:

  • Increasing Community Safety. San José residents live in a community with responsive emergency services and safe streets and roads. San José is recognized as the nation’s safest major city. Key priorities include emergency response, crisis response, crime prevention, and traffic safety.

  • Reducing Unsheltered Homelessness. Implement comprehensive strategies and supportive services to decrease the number of individuals experiencing homelessness and improve quality of life. Key priorities include homelessness prevention, outreach, case management, interim housing construction and operations, and homelessness concerns.

  • Cleaning Up Our Neighborhoods. Clean and maintain the City’s shared spaces and resources through proactive and community-driven blight reduction, beautification, and code enforcement services. Key priorities include illegal dumping, anti-graffiti, encampment trash services, code enforcement, and SJ311.

  • Building More Housing. Meet resident’s housing needs across income levels by making San José a great place to build housing. The City will foster an ecosystem where policy and financing work together, permits are processed efficiently, and building housing is cost-effective. Key priorities include land use, policy, and regulation, development services process, and linking land and capital.

  • Growing Our Economy. Cultivate an ecosystem for thriving businesses and resident prosperity. As a major innovation hub, San José operates within a region marked by high demand and competitiveness and remains focused on advancing growth and opportunity. Key priorities include business engagement and workforce preparedness, infrastructure readiness, downtown and neighborhood business district investment, and sports and entertainment district formation.

The Focus Area Dashboards show how the City of San José is using data to better serve the community in four key areas.

Priority Setting Documents