It is 2016, and the City Council of Sausalito—a wealthy enclave on a hill overlooking Richardson Bay, north of San Francisco—is holding a public meeting about its plans to build a shelter for people experiencing homelessness. A man in a San Francisco Giants jacket gets up and voices his concerns about the shelter, which would have about 20 beds, and which the city is mandated to build under a 2007 California law. The man is worried about violence, crime, and the mental instability of the people