UNHOUSED PEOPLE who currently occupy 50 tents in a city-sanctioned camping area along the Mahon Creek Path in San Rafael will be offered a temporary private dwelling at a future interim housing site 2 miles away. In the early spring, as soon as they move, the Mahon Creek camping area will close, and the path will reopen for public access.

At a joint press conference Wednesday, city, county and state officials unveiled plans to install 65 private, lockable cabins for up to 70 people in the parking lot of a former school at 350 Merrydale Road in San Rafael.

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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.