Allowing the lions to write history doesn’t simply mean counterbalancing the facts of a “great person” historical narrative with the lived experiences and opinions of a subaltern, though this is an important aspect of holistic historical retelling. Within what is sometimes perceived as a binary between what the “real history” is to the lion versus the admirers of “great men”, there are the non-narrative truths: the mandates and policies that lawmakers made fact that guide the historical narratives of both sides. The policies that spurred homelessness crises in Berkeley and across the US - and later sought to rectify them - are presented here.