BART hopes to increase its efforts to connect homeless and unhoused riders with social services by 5 percent over the next three years, the transit agency’s point person on addressing homelessness said Thursday.

Daniel Cooperman, BART’s senior manager of social services, and officials from the agency’s police force outlined BART’s Strategic Homeless Action Plan to the agency’s Board of Directors.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.