City of Berkeley must continue work with advocacy groups to aid unhoused communities

People experiencing homelessness in Berkeley continue to be affected by water insecurity and encampment sweeps.
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People experiencing homelessness in Berkeley continue to be affected by water insecurity and encampment sweeps.
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If you are constantly wondering where your next meal will come from, how can you be expected to think about an essay due tomorrow?
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We can’t turn our backs on our neighbors anymore. We must take action to ensure our city is able to provide for the most vulnerable.
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Policymakers must accept the leadership of impacted people. Good intentions will never be enough if they are coupled with elitism.
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This moment should be a call to face the crisis of homelessness — in the blink of an eye, the pandemic created the political urgency necessary to do so.
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We must be cognizant that Berkeley — like all cities — does not exist in a bubble. The actions we take have a ripple effect across the region.
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In an effort to address homelessness throughout the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a 100-day challenge, allowing individual cities and counties to apply for Emergency Homelessness Aid.
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My only true exposure to visible poverty, then, came when I traveled to places at a remove from my home. And this had a certain effect on how I perceived homelessness. While I saw many people without homes, their displacement was in some ways tempered by my own transience.
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The city talks a big game about helping homeless individuals, but the results just don’t match that rhetoric.
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From the homeless population in Oakland to the single mother in New York with an eviction notice on her front door, poverty is an uncompromising epidemic.
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