For the first time ever, the city has created a team of outreach workers focused on getting chronically homeless, mentally ill individuals off the streets and into housing.
Eve Ahmed
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Homelessness panel: ‘There’s no place for people to go’
Eve Ahmed starts her shift each day at the free community breakfast in North Berkeley at the Dorothy Day House. “It’s a way for everyone in the city who is homeless to connect with me,” she told a crowded room at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday. “I work by myself and I treat people the way I want […]
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Ohlone Park neighbors brainstorm about homeless influx
More than 100 people crowded into the North Berkeley Senior Center on Saturday to strategize about how to address problematic behavior in Ohlone Park linked largely to the area’s growing nomadic homeless population. According to a gardener at the park who wrote a letter to Councilwoman Linda Maio, who organized Saturday’s meeting, “The park is […]