Daytime drop-in center opens in Southside Berkeley
UC Berkeley and the city funded the amenities hub in ongoing efforts to clear People’s Park and make way for construction of student housing.
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Half of People’s Park occupants have moved to Rodeway Inn
People are moving into temporary housing as UC Berkeley prepares to build student housing at the park this summer.
People’s Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Preservationists are hoping the listing might persuade UC Berkeley to build housing elsewhere but Cal says it won’t.
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Arsonist in People’s Park set tent on fire with man inside, police say
A man living in the park has been hospitalized after someone lit his tent on fire Tuesday morning and hit him multiple times with a golf club, police say.
Why hasn’t UC Berkeley built more student housing?
For much of Cal’s history, providing housing for students was not a priority. Troubled finances in the last few decades have hobbled Cal’s efforts to catch up.
People’s Park celebrates anniversary amid impending UC Berkeley development plans
UC Berkeley plans to build student housing on the park this summer.
The Wassermans: A family with deep Berkeley roots
Berkeley family’s 60-year saga — People’s Park, Heyday Books, Greek Theatre, leg lifts.
City, university to lease Rodeway Inn as housing for displaced People’s Park residents
UC Berkeley is expected to begin construction at the park in the summer.
Osha Neumann, attorney for the disenfranchised, retires
Neumann, who came up in the counterculture 1960s, will continue advocacy through his private practice as well as his work as an artist.
Remembering Peter Haberfeld, labor attorney who worked alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
Haberfeld was proud of his arrest record — watching the polls in Mississippi in 1967, protesting the Iraq war in 2003 and twice in Berkeley in the ’60s.
Group asks Cal to preserve century-old buildings, once home to historic girls school
The Anna Head School opened in 1892. Now a group of historians, architects and contractors wants to work with UC Berkeley to preserve some of the school’s decrepit buildings.
In brief
Berkeley to put $67M towards affordable housing projects
The projects include affordable housing on church properties in South Berkeley and the Homekey hotel in Northwest Berkeley.
