Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor’s administration fenced off a former downtown homeless encampment and set its sights on the Acme parking lot next, though Taylor has not identified where people displaced from beneath the Division Street Bridge are staying.

When most people picture homelessness, they picture one person alone on a street corner. That image is not wrong. But it is dangerously incomplete, and that gap is one reason the problem persists. As the former vice chair of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust since 2022, I have seen two sides of a story most residents never hear.

A key vote could help chart the future of the region’s response to homelessness. And it’s happening in a unique format. Anyone, including you, can join and likely cast a vote.

Alameda County Health’s Housing and Homelessness Services released a report on the county’s homeless population Wednesday showing an increase in Berkeley’s homeless population, despite a decrease in o