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To house the unhoused, hear the unhoused

By Julia Irwin on
News
A new report confirms what many of Oakland’s unhoused residents already knew: The scale of Oakland’s homeless crisis stretches far beyond the 2,761 unhoused people that the city officially acknowledges.

A concert to save People’s Park

By Kate Wolffe on
Community Events   News
On October 20, someone taped an invitation to a fence on Haste Street. Scrawled on a 6 by 4 foot piece of butcher paper, black writing publicized a ‘Save People’s Park Concert’. The accompanying arrow points east, up Haste Street, a one-way with cars flowing the other direction. Sproul Hall, a symbol of the University, is 500 yards up the street.

Oakland opens third Tuff Shed camp

By Lulu Orozco on
News
The city of Oakland opened its third Tuff Shed site at Lake Merritt in early October. The new site, which is located in the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center parking lot, has 20 insulated cabins, approximately 8-by-15 feet each, designed to house two residents for up to six months. Together, they can accommodate 40 residents. As of late October, there are 14 open spaces remaining.

New Berkeley anti-homeless law aims to clear sidewalks

By Darwin BondGraham and Daniel Lempres on
News
Last Thursday, city of Berkeley and BART officials heralded the opening of downtown Berkeley’s new BART plaza. Mayor Jesse Arreguin cut a ribbon to ceremonially inaugurate the space, which was reconstructed out of shining stone, and features sparkling glass and metal. From the BART station’s wave-shaped entranceway, the Berkeley Symphony emerged trumpeting the culmination of years of planning, while new public artworks were unveiled, including a massive metal globe sculpture by Michael Christian titled, “Home.”