With more than 5,000 people estimated to be living on the streets of San Jose and not nearly enough places to house them all, city officials are hoping a new program will reduce the homeless population by sending some individuals off to live with family.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan announced a pilot program for unhoused individuals on Tuesday which aims to help reunite homeless folks with their loved ones. KTVU"s Tori Gaines reports from San Jose.

San Jose is launching a program to relocate and reunify homeless people with their families as the city strives to end unsheltered homelessness. Homeward Bound, a pilot program proposed by Mayor Matt Mahan,

San José Mayor Matt Mahan is championing the $200,000 pilot program, which will offer bus and train tickets to homeless people who want to reconnect with family or friends.

More than two years after a quadruple homicide devastated Moscow, Idaho, a judge unsealed the transcript of a recent hearing in the case against Bryan Kohberger – the man accused of stabbing four students to death in an off-campus home.

San Jose has allocated $200,000 to launch the Homeward Bound program that aims to reconnect homeless residents with loved ones willing to take them in.

The City of San Jose is launching a new program Tuesday that will help homeless people move out of the county back to their hometowns. San Jose will give free, one-way bus and train tickets to unhoused people who “wish to reconnect with friends,

The plan will assist the unhoused with reconnecting with family and loved ones, by providing them with train or bus tickets so they can return home.