A man walks his bike down the Mahon Creek Path encampment in San Rafael, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. The temporary homeless camping area is sanctioned by the city of San Rafael and is funded by the State's Encampment Resolution Fund grant program. (George Alfaro/Bay City News)

Marin County launched its biennial point-in-time count Wednesday, a countywide effort to measure the scope and characteristics of homelessness on a single day.  

Required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the count is conducted every other year nationwide. In Marin, the count is done by trained volunteers, county staff and is led by Continuum of Care, a local planning body and coalition of government agencies, service providers, and community partners. 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.