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30-year wait to underground utility lines is nearly over | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

First They Came for the Homeless

South Berkeley Here There encampment closed after 6 years
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South Berkeley Here There encampment closed after 6 years

Avatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli Feb. 02, 2023, 2:22 p.m.February 3, 2023

Activists, many of whom have passed away, set up the sober camp in 2017 as a protest movement.

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Berkeley’s biggest homeless camps were closed. Where are the residents now?

Avatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli Sept. 02, 2021, 1:54 p.m.February 2, 2023

Twenty-five percent of West Berkeley encampment residents are in hotels, 17% were housed and 25% are still on the streets.

I-80 Encampment Sweep
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Residents under I-80 underpass search for housing after encampment sweep

Avatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli Aug. 10, 2021, 4:32 p.m.August 4, 2022

Homeless residents say the sweep was destabilizing in a time when many of them were looking for housing.

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Berkeley opens temporary emergency shelter for wildfire smoke

Avatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli Sept. 11, 2020, 3:48 p.m.October 4, 2022

Many homeless shelters have limited capacity during the pandemic, and most evening drop-in services are unavailable. This is one bridge option, says the city.

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‘The leadership that came from the streets has been decapitated’: Deaths of 5 homeless advocates in a year leave a void

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel Aug. 18, 2020, 2:46 p.m.August 24, 2021

The loss of so many leading Berkeley activists who worked to give unsheltered people a greater say in their living conditions is sorely felt, but the fight will go on, say advocates.

tents on a sidewalk with the BART train in the backgroun
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City sets up hand-washing stations to help homeless, others avoid coronavirus

Avatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli and Kyle Martin March 13, 2020, 2:30 p.m.January 31, 2023

City workers also knocked on tents and talked to people to hand out 560 kits with hand sanitizer and information about COVID-19.

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Mike Zint, vocal defender of homeless rights, dies

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein Feb. 20, 2020, 1:30 p.m.August 4, 2022

Zint’s “Poor Tour” around Berkeley thrust the plight of homeless people in city officials’ faces.

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Jury finds Berkeley did not violate a homeless group’s civil rights

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein May 24, 2019, 11:08 a.m.August 4, 2022

After a week-long federal trial, the jury said the city did not unfairly target First They Came for the Homeless because of its protests.

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Berkeley faces homeless group during four-day trial

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein May 23, 2019, 4:57 p.m.October 4, 2022

A four-day federal trial pits the city of Berkeley against a homeless group that argues its First Amendment rights were violated.

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Did Berkeley target a homeless group for its political views? Jury will decide

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein April 26, 2019, 4:00 p.m.October 4, 2022

Judge William Alsup dismissed other claims that Berkeley violated homeless people’s rights when the city took their belongings.

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Federal judge rejects police brutality lawsuit over homeless camp arrests

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso April 25, 2019, 3:17 p.m.October 4, 2022

A federal judge has ruled that Berkeley police officers used “minimal” force that was “reasonable” when they arrested several people who protested or resisted arrest during a homeless camp removal in 2016.

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Update: Homeless protest camp outside Old City Hall cleared out

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor Sept. 04, 2018, 4:45 p.m.August 4, 2022

The First They Came for the Homeless campers who set up Saturday say the closure of an emergency shelter prompted the decision to pitch tents.

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