While residents and visitors avert their gaze, Coil spends his days looking for fellow Californians panhandling on busy streets, sleeping on green lawns and hiding in alleyways. Coil directs Santa Monica’s new C3 team, a collection of social workers giving individual care to Santa Monica’s revolving homeless population. Each day Coil, program manager Matthew McAdams, case manager Laura Lemoine, and peer advocate Felix Garcia spend about five hours talking to every homeless person they can get to in the downtown core.

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