Here There

Berkeley city officials cleared away the long-standing “Here There” encampment on Adeline street on Tuesday, putting a halt to the camp’s nearly seven year-long protest on the green space. 

On March 6, the city of Berkeley gave notice of violation of PC 647e, or lodging on public property, to the residents of the "Here There" encampment.

Renowned homeless rights activist Mike Zint, who founded the advocacy group First They Came for the Homeless, died at noon Feb. 14 after a lengthy battle with emphysema.

The city of Berkeley has started distributing official legal notices to members of the homeless population who keep their belongings on the street in violation of municipal code.

Berkeley City Council will consider a proposal at its regular Tuesday meeting to open negotiations with BART to remove a fence that currently surrounds the Here There sculpture on Adeline Street.

A fence with spiked edges has been built around the Here There sculpture on Adeline Street in order to keep people away from the nearby BART tracks, but some homeless activists see the fence as an attack on the homeless community that previously inhabited the space.

Winter is here, but the city of Berkeley is still unprepared to shelter its large homeless population.

For the upcoming winter, the city currently has about 150 year-round beds for almost 1,000 homeless individuals on the streets of Berkeley.

U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup ruled Tuesday morning that BART will be allowed to evict the "Here There" homeless encampment in South Berkeley, as first reported by Berkeleyside.