Monday is day three of a four-day hunger strike undertaken by some members of the clergy and other activists who believe Google’s ambitious plans in downtown San Jose will displace the city’s poorest residents.

The San Jose City Council is expected to approve part of a plan Tuesday to sell city-owned land to Google.

But not everyone in the South Bay is on board with the looming deal between Google and San Jose.

Lacking a permit to pitch their shelter at City Hall on Monday, critics of San Jose’s partnering with Google on a land deal were allowed to continue their protest by keeping the structure on a more mobile footing.

Hoping for another last minute compromise, members of the clergy and advocates for the homeless are on a hunger strike but pretty much resigned to the reality that the city council on Tuesday will almost certainly approve selling city-owned land to Google.

They believe that hunger and homelessness will get worse if the city puts jobs ahead of housing, according to Sandy Perry with the Affordable Housing Network.

The city council on Tuesday will consider the first phase of a deal where Google would pay roughly $100,000,000 for about 10 acres of publicly-owned land for a transit village near Diridon Station.

That could bring millions of square feet of office space, retail and as many as 20,000 new, mostly tech-related jobs to town.

It’s a good deal says the Downtown Association’s Scott Knies.

In a statement, San Jose mayor San Liccardo said:

“…through this proposed partnership with Google, we’ll require at least 25 % of the new housing units built in that area be affordable rent-restricted units, and create a downtown financing district that will have all office developers, including Google, pay a fee towards affordable housing and other infrastructure…”

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