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UC Berkeley's Housing Project in People's Park Still Needs A Developer | KQED

UC Berkeley aims to add 9,000 student beds through its Student Housing Initiative.

Former Councilmember and mayoral candidate Rigel Robinson resigned due to harassment over his support for developing People's Park. [ more ]

KQED

California law

Plan for People's Park Pits Housing Against History | KQED

The school and city moved dozens of homeless people into a motel as part of an $8 million relocation initiative and officials promised to keep most of the site as open space.

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After citing a need for an intramural soccer field, the school instead let the site deteriorate into a muddy mess mostly used for parking.

East Bay Times

Education

UC Berkeley housing shortage leaves students scrambling

After a new state law enabled the University of California-Berkeley to sidestep a court-ordered enrollment cap, incoming freshman Angela Huynh felt relieved.

The Nation

2 months ago

Social justice

Should People's Park Be Consigned to the Ash Heap of History?

The University of California-Berkeley is moving forward with plans to build a student dormitory and housing for low-income and formerly unhoused people on the contested People's Park site.

Protesters were removed from the park by law enforcement officers, and construction is set to resume once legal obstacles are cleared. [ more ]

eastbaytimes.com

East Bay (California)

Walled out of People's Park, protesters take to the Berkeley streets

Activists lost People's Park as their base, but are continuing their protests nearby.

The streets and Sproul Plaza are being used as alternative venues for protests against UC Berkeley's housing plan. [ more ]

Sacramento Bee

Cops raid historic California park - again. 'They've been trying to kill this park'

Police officers clear People's Park in Berkeley for construction, sparking protests

People's Park has a long history as a gathering place for the community and has faced previous attempts at demolition and development [ more ]

Sacramento Bee

UC Berkeley walls off People's Park as it waits for court decision on student housing project

Police remove activists from People's Park in Berkeley as university seeks court ruling to build student housing.

University of California, Berkeley wants to build housing complex for students and formerly homeless people in People's Park. [ more ]

www.mercurynews.com

East Bay (California)

Police converge on People's Park at UC Berkeley in attempt to wall off for construction

UC Berkeley plans to wall off People's Park using shipping containers to prepare for a construction project.

Protesters showed up in response to the overnight move and the surrounding streets were closed off by police. [ more ]

Los Angeles Times

Photos: People's Park in Berkeley cleared in dead of night

Law enforcement officers cleared activists from People's Park in preparation for construction of a housing complex for students.

Some activists resisted by staying in a makeshift treehouse and on the roof of a building. [ more ]

Streetsblog San Francisco

11 months ago

San Francisco

Today's Headlines

BART Adding Trains for "Bay to Breakers" (SFExaminer)
BART Officer Resigns (SFChron)
More Doom and Gloom for Transit Funding (NewYorkMagazine)
Megabus Service Returns to Bay Area (SFExaminer)
Mercury Spill Near Martinez Train Station (EastBayTimes)
High Speed Rail Authority Wins Award (RailwayAge)
San Francisco Will Extend Hours it Charges for Private Car Storage (SFChron)
Developer Pulls out of People's Park (SFGate)
S.F.'s Trash Cans Put on Hold (SFChron)
Model for Office to Housing Conversion? (SFGate)
Ambassadors Coming to the Mission (SFChron, SFExaminer)
Commentary: If Bay Area Really Sucks so Bad, why's Demand for Housing so High? (SFChron)

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Streetsblog San Francisco

San Francisco

Today's Headlines

BART Reinstates Mask Mandate Again (SFGate, EastBayTimes) Petroleum-Written Climate Bill Specifically Bans Rail from Funding (Vice) America's Passenger Rail Renaissance?

sfist.com

San Francisco

Rainy Humpday Headlines: The Line For Sandbags Has Been Very Long

The heaviest rains in today's bomb cyclone will be coming in the mid- to late afternoon into evening.There may also be a lull in the late morning and early afternoon with just light rain, but don't be fooled.[KTVU] Assuming today's storm will bring even more rain in a short span of time than the one on New Year's Eve, the Chronicle has an interactive map of what parts of San Francisco could see new flooding.

The Marginalian

Inspiration

From Living Tree Bridges to AI Systems: A Design Catalogue of Optimism and Resilience for a More Livable Future

In the summer of 1948, Black Mountain College informed a class of students that the star architect whose class they had signed up to take had cancelled; he was to be replaced by a Harvard dropout who had never taught before.

Los Angeles Times