FAA sets deadline for clearing of homeless encampment near San Jose airport FAA sets deadline for clearing of homeless encampment near San Jose airport The Federal Aviation Administration has set a hard deadline of April 2022 for a homeless encampment on a 40-acre plot of land near San Jose airport to be cleared. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hundreds of unhoused San Jose residents face an uncertain future. This, as the city is under pressure from the federal government to clear a homeless encampment at the edge of the San Jose airport's runways. The past five years or so, there have been one-to-two dozen unhoused residents living in the space. But the COVID-19 pandemic swelled those numbers.