BERKELEY'S NEWS • MARCH 30, 2023
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Letters to the Editor
MAY 23, 2022
Encampment clearing does not end houselessness
The city of Berkeley needs to recognize that encampments beside Interstate 80 often occurred as a result of the city’s lack of responsibility for providing housing alternatives, while trying to maintain a “safe” city look by pushing out the unhoused population – leaving them no where else to go.
Letters to the Editor
MAY 23, 2022
Encampment clearing does not end houselessness
The city of Berkeley needs to recognize that encampments beside Interstate 80 often occurred as a result of the city’s lack of responsibility for providing housing alternatives, while trying to maintain a “safe” city look by pushing out the unhoused population – leaving them no where else to go.
Op-Eds
FEBRUARY 04, 2022
Where do unhoused individuals go?
In simpler terms, we must change society's current mindset that housing equals capital while poverty equals criminality.
Op-Eds
FEBRUARY 04, 2022
Where do unhoused individuals go?
In simpler terms, we must change society's current mindset that housing equals capital while poverty equals criminality.
Op-Eds
JUNE 21, 2018
First, to do no harm: The cruelty of the Second Street and Marina Boulevard evictions
On Memorial Day on Marina Boulevard, the sun rose over a field of dry grass and fell on a row of RVs and campers in which people had been living for up to a year. Now they were scurrying about in a panic, some angry, some despairing, some resigned, because Berkeley police had arrived in two squad cars and announced that everyone had to leave or they would be ticketed and their vehicles towed. I heard people say: “Where can we go?”
Op-Eds
JUNE 21, 2018
First, to do no harm: The cruelty of the Second Street and Marina Boulevard evictions
On Memorial Day on Marina Boulevard, the sun rose over a field of dry grass and fell on a row of RVs and campers in which people had been living for up to a year. Now they were scurrying about in a panic, some angry, some despairing, some resigned, because Berkeley police had arrived in two squad cars and announced that everyone had to leave or they would be ticketed and their vehicles towed. I heard people say: “Where can we go?”
