Supriya Yelimeli is a journalist from Fremont, California. She was formerly a homelessness and housing reporter at Berkeleyside, and has reported on local news in the Bay Area since 2018.
Sweeps without housing offers now allowed in parts of Berkeley
“Everyone else in the country has swept, has pushed. Let’s help those on our streets. Otherwise...this is the beginning of the end, this is the death of Berkeley.”
Remembering Michael Delacour, People’s Park co-founder and pillar of Berkeley organizing
Delacour hosted the first meetings to organize and build People’s Park at his Berkeley home in the 1960s.
Court decision halts People’s Park construction indefinitely
UC Berkeley said it still has an “unwavering” commitment to building student housing at People’s Park.