"... solutions and protecting public safety.
Over the last five years, San Rafael has done more than its ... , handwashing stations and porta-potties to people who are experiencing homelessness. The City has done regular ... and HHS Public Health went into two encampments to do COVID-19 testing.
We encourage everyone ... program
Despite all of this progress, despite being one of the only communities ... encampment? We tend to instinctively know one when we see it, but what exactly is "it" that we're ..."
Nearly five years ago, the City of San Rafael, the County of Marin, and local homeless service providers joined forces to launch a pilot program called the Homeless Outreach Team (HOT), which has since been named a statewide best practice by the League of California Cities. HOT emerged out of a need to address unsheltered homelessness in Downtown...