With San Jose facing a growing crisis over a lack of affordable housing and rising homelessness, the city says it desperately needs more money to fix the problem. But getting enough voters in the nation’s 10th largest city to willingly foot the bill has proven difficult. According to a new survey of more than 1,200 registered voters, a general obligation bond measure aimed at providing housing for homeless residents would be unlikely to clear the two-thirds majority required to pass in 2020. So instead, the city is considering a new real property transfer tax — a tax that is paid by the buyer, the seller or split when a property is sold or ownership transfers, with some exceptions, such as for an inheritance. Unlike a bond measure, such a tax would only require a simple majority to pass. If it goes that direction, San Jose would join a handful of East Bay cities that approved new or amended real property transfer taxes in 2018 — including Berkeley, which named addressing homelessne...