When Skylar Smith, who lives out of his van in Point Reyes Station, spoke at a county-held forum on homelessness in West Marin last week, he had one point to make: We need to look at homeless people as humans. Imperfect humans, he conceded, but deserving of basic respect.
“They’re not these things that we need to pity,” he said. “They’re your brothers, they’re your neighbors.”
His statement stood out amid a discussion of statistics…