San Rafael OKs management contract for Merrydale tiny home village for unhoused

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News April 21, 2026April 21, 2026

FILE: A city-operated temporary sanctioned camping area in downtown San Rafael on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2025. The San Rafael City Council has approved a contract for operations management of a temporary tiny cabin project at 350 Merrydale Road, which will house about 70 unhoused residents. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

While 50 unhoused people in tents endured the rain in San Rafael’s sanctioned encampment area on Monday night, the city set in place the operations management for their future tiny cabin homes.

The San Rafael City Council approved operations management for a temporary tiny cabin project at 350 Merrydale Road, which will house about 70 unhoused residents. The council voted to expand its agreement with Foege Schumann Global Disaster Solutions LLC , the same company that manages the sanctioned encampment along the Mahon Creek path. The company will oversee installation of the modular cabins and provide security, site management and maintenance.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

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.

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