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.

KRON4's Charles Clifford reports

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.

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,