Downtown Streets, Inc. California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Downtown Streets, Inc. reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and this page reflects the data as of Jul 31, 2026. All 14 are listed below; the table scrolls.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff. What makes the California version unusual is how few ways out it gives an employer. The only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war. Federal law has three exceptions, including one for unforeseeable business circumstances, and the California Legislature deliberately declined to copy them.

Downtown Streets severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the same thing as the notice pay the WARN Act describes, and an employer cannot use one to satisfy the other. A release may also give up more than you expect, and an arbitration agreement you signed at hire can affect where a dispute is heard. Read our full guide to the California WARN Act before you decide, and consider having the paperwork looked at.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now, because WARN money does not reduce it. And keep every document, including the notice itself and anything showing when it arrived.

Questions people are asking

What has been reported

Press coverage of this layoff, summarized and attributed. This is reporting rather than the filing itself, and we did not independently verify it.

San Jose Spotlight reported that Downtown Streets Team, the 20-year-old nonprofit that ran street-cleaning and job-training programs for unhoused people across 15 Northern California cities, shut down all operations on October 31, 2025. CEO Julie Gardner said the organization "lost several significant contracts and grants, creating a multimillion-dollar loss in overall funding," alongside rising operational costs.

CBS Sacramento reported the shutdown was statewide and that cities were scrambling to fill the gap: in Modesto, where the team deployed 68 members weekly for downtown cleanups, city officials were negotiating with nonprofits to build a replacement job-training program before the October 31 closure.

Sources: San Jose Spotlight (opens in a new tab) · CBS Sacramento (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The filings name 13 California locations, including Salinas, Hayward, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Sacramento.
• They cover 14 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• Every notice is filed as a closure rather than a partial reduction, meaning the sites themselves are shutting down.
• The jobs do not all end on the same day. The filings list 2 separate last days of work, running from August 29, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
• The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 0 days, against a statewide median of 61 days across every notice on file.
• By headcount it sits in the top 35% of the 593 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 111 workers leaving Downtown Streets, Inc. re-enter a job market where Santa Clara County unemployment stood at 4% in June 2026, below the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• All 14 notices are dated within a single month, August 2025, which reads as one event reported site by site rather than a rolling reduction.

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about Downtown Streets.

Free job-search help near the affected sites

America's Job Center of California is the state's no-cost network for laid-off workers: help filing and keeping unemployment benefits, federally funded retraining, and résumé and interview coaching. Your WARN notice may name one; these are the closest to the sites in these filings.

Locations and hours change — confirm before visiting, or find another center with the EDD's center locator (opens in a new tab). Directory: U.S. Department of Labor, Jul 31, 2026; distances are straight-line from the address in the filing.

Other layoffs filed in Santa Clara County around the same time

72 employers have WARN notices on file in Santa Clara County, covering 11,407 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon6,938 workers
• Meta Platforms, Inc.4,150 workers
• Republic National Distributing Company1,756 workers
• Intel Corporation1,423 workers
• Oracle America, Inc.1,250 workers
• Educational Testing Service757 workers

Listed because they appear in the same county in the same public data. No connection between these employers is implied.