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"content": "\u003cp>Jesús Gutiérrez can often be found perusing a shelf full of myths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucked among the second-floor stacks of the UC Berkeley Anthropology Library, the collection features stories curated by cultural origin. “For instance, classical European folktales, moving into folktales from Jewish and Black diasporas around the world. And interestingly, some books that contain cross-sections of these different kinds of traditions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the university stopped staffing the library more than a year ago, the 29-year-old anthropology Ph.D. candidate has served as its de facto librarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This library would essentially have been closed and just left to languish if the [anthropology] department had not stepped in and offered to hire me as someone to just basically keep the collection open and accessible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez is leading a small but passionate group of students, faculty and community members who have occupied the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library since April 21, pledging — in true Berkeley protest tradition — to live among its stacks until the administration halts its plan to close the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fighting for public resources for all,” said Gutiérrez, as he toured the library on a recent afternoon, passing a handful of students reading quietly at tables on the main floor. Only the cloth protest banners hanging from shelves and folded cots pushed into corners suggested any kind of situation out of the ordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez said his group has already met with Chancellor Carol Christ and other campus administrators, and “tried every single bureaucratic channel,” to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948357 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with bushy hair poses among the stacks of a library. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" 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class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesús Gutiérrez, a UC Berkeley anthropology graduate student, standing among the stacks of the anthropology library, which he and other activists have occupied since April 21, in an effort to thwart the university’s plans to close it by January 2024. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Facing a projected $75 million budget shortfall, the university in February announced plans to close the library along with two other small specialty libraries — for math statistics and for physics and astronomy — and merge them over the course of the next two years with larger campus libraries as part of its “\u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/space-plan-announcement\">long-term space plan\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anthropology library is slated to shutter first, by January 2024, with its “low-use materials” moved to a Richmond warehouse and “a significant portion” of its remaining collections transferred to the stacks of the main campus library, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/space-plan-announcement\">according to a description of the plan on the school’s website\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jesús Gutiérrez, Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley Anthropology Department\"]‘We believe that what we’re fighting for here is the collection itself, the actual stories that these shelves tell and the actual communities that they represent.’[/pullquote]In touting its plan, the university suggests that its online library search tool is more effective than physically looking for materials in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez fundamentally disagrees, arguing that the experience of being here in person is deeply valuable and irreplaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a serious lack of understanding by some folks in the administration who seem to believe that the future is so digital that there’s no real place for books in a tight and difficult public education budget in California,” he said. “We believe differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A library “is not just a room that holds books,” Gutiérrez added. “We believe that what we’re fighting for here is the collection itself, the actual stories that these shelves tell and the actual communities that they represent, many of whom are communities that use this library on the regular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore said administrators are still considering a proposal to continue using the library as a reading room and meeting space for the anthropology department and for members of Native communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding the Anthropology library’s closure, we, too, wish the library could remain open, but that is not an option at this point,” she said, citing the university’s “series of financial challenges in recent years, including the budgetary impacts of the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948360\" 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associated with aging campus infrastructure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore noted that funding for campus library services has nose-dived in recent years, dropping by more than 30% since 2003 (when adjusted for inflation). Last year, she said, there were just 64 full-time librarians on campus, down from nearly 80 on staff two decades ago — even as campus enrollment has grown by more 12,000.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Charles Hirschkind, chair, UC Berkeley Anthropology Department\"]‘This decision [to close the library] has been opposed by every unit on campus. Every faculty association voted against it. Despite all of that support for keeping it open, the university has been unwavering in its decision.’[/pullquote]Gutiérrez called that steady disinvestment “a symptom of inverted priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see UC Berkeley prioritize educational resources that benefit the public and underrepresented minorities on this campus, such as this collection, such as the other libraries that are closing,” he said. “The conversation is fundamentally about the devaluing of knowledge and the devaluing of the people who make this university work, which are, for the most part, the actual researchers who teach the classes, the actual undergraduates who fight and advocate for themselves on issues of disability, of race and gender equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “We want to use those resources to educate ourselves about the history of violence, subjugation, but also triumph, of the world’s peoples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library is one of just three of its kind in the nation, with the other two housed on the campuses of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. As of Sunday, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/return-the-george-and-mary-foster-anthropology-library-to-a-fully-operational-library?source_location=search\">3,000 people had signed the petition\u003c/a> to keep the library open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a larger number of people who have been here in the last day, giving more energy to the place and more optimism,” said UC Berkeley Anthropology Department Chair Charles Hirschkind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948358\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A banner hung from the side of a three-story building says, 'Save the anthro library.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside UC Berkeley’s anthropology library on April 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The library is an important resource for Indigenous people seeking to rediscover and revitalize some of their own traditions, he added, noting that many students — particularly students of color — have said the library is “important for their own identities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision [to close the library] has been opposed by every unit on campus. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jesús Gutiérrez can often be found perusing a shelf full of myths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucked among the second-floor stacks of the UC Berkeley Anthropology Library, the collection features stories curated by cultural origin. “For instance, classical European folktales, moving into folktales from Jewish and Black diasporas around the world. And interestingly, some books that contain cross-sections of these different kinds of traditions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the university stopped staffing the library more than a year ago, the 29-year-old anthropology Ph.D. candidate has served as its de facto librarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This library would essentially have been closed and just left to languish if the [anthropology] department had not stepped in and offered to hire me as someone to just basically keep the collection open and accessible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez is leading a small but passionate group of students, faculty and community members who have occupied the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library since April 21, pledging — in true Berkeley protest tradition — to live among its stacks until the administration halts its plan to close the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fighting for public resources for all,” said Gutiérrez, as he toured the library on a recent afternoon, passing a handful of students reading quietly at tables on the main floor. Only the cloth protest banners hanging from shelves and folded cots pushed into corners suggested any kind of situation out of the ordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez said his group has already met with Chancellor Carol Christ and other campus administrators, and “tried every single bureaucratic channel,” to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948357 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with bushy hair poses among the stacks of a library. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesús Gutiérrez, a UC Berkeley anthropology graduate student, standing among the stacks of the anthropology library, which he and other activists have occupied since April 21, in an effort to thwart the university’s plans to close it by January 2024. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Facing a projected $75 million budget shortfall, the university in February announced plans to close the library along with two other small specialty libraries — for math statistics and for physics and astronomy — and merge them over the course of the next two years with larger campus libraries as part of its “\u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/space-plan-announcement\">long-term space plan\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anthropology library is slated to shutter first, by January 2024, with its “low-use materials” moved to a Richmond warehouse and “a significant portion” of its remaining collections transferred to the stacks of the main campus library, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/space-plan-announcement\">according to a description of the plan on the school’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In touting its plan, the university suggests that its online library search tool is more effective than physically looking for materials in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez fundamentally disagrees, arguing that the experience of being here in person is deeply valuable and irreplaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a serious lack of understanding by some folks in the administration who seem to believe that the future is so digital that there’s no real place for books in a tight and difficult public education budget in California,” he said. “We believe differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A library “is not just a room that holds books,” Gutiérrez added. “We believe that what we’re fighting for here is the collection itself, the actual stories that these shelves tell and the actual communities that they represent, many of whom are communities that use this library on the regular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore said administrators are still considering a proposal to continue using the library as a reading room and meeting space for the anthropology department and for members of Native communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding the Anthropology library’s closure, we, too, wish the library could remain open, but that is not an option at this point,” she said, citing the university’s “series of financial challenges in recent years, including the budgetary impacts of the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cloth protest banners hanging from low shelves in the library, that say, 'Defend Public Education' and 'Save the Anthropology Library.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest banners line the bookshelves on the main floor of the UC Berkeley anthropology library, on April 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Overall, the university continues to experience cost pressures due to historically high inflation, mandated increases in academic and staff wages, and increased expenses associated with aging campus infrastructure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore noted that funding for campus library services has nose-dived in recent years, dropping by more than 30% since 2003 (when adjusted for inflation). Last year, she said, there were just 64 full-time librarians on campus, down from nearly 80 on staff two decades ago — even as campus enrollment has grown by more 12,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Campus housing: Students can’t get enough of it, and California public campuses can’t build dorm rooms fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed delaying by a year \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/BudgetSummary/HigherEducation.pdf#page=7\">nearly $1.2 billion in loans and grants (PDF)\u003c/a> that would build housing for thousands of students at affordable rates — money the state promised campuses in last year’s state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom seeks the delay to help balance the state’s projected $22.5 billion budget deficit in 2023–24. But lawmakers who hold huge sway over higher-education finances are adamant that no money is pulled from the state’s recent, unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/\">multibillion-dollar down payment\u003c/a> on affordable student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the intrigue, the Legislature’s own top policy adviser, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, proposed that the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2023/03/california-flood-reservoir-rain-snow/#:~:text=From%20CalMatters%20higher%20education%20reporter%20Mikhail%20Zinshteyn%3A\">completely drop its investment in student housing\u003c/a> or at least change how the money is spent. One such idea? Renege on \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4733/Student-Housing-030923.pdf#page=8\">a promise to continue sending community colleges grants (PDF)\u003c/a> to build more student housing for next year.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Kevin McCarty\"]‘This is such a priority for the Senate and the Assembly the last couple years and just checks so many boxes: Housing crisis, check. College affordability, check. Enrollment growth for students, check.’[/pullquote]Ultimately the state must have a balanced budget before June 30, but if the last three legislative budget hearings on higher education are any indication, how much — and when — to spend on student housing will be a key point of friction between the Democrat-controlled Legislature and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plans to delay housing funding is “something that we don’t support, and we’re going to be looking at other options,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento and chair of the Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education, at a Tuesday hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a priority for the Senate and the Assembly the last couple years and just checks so many boxes: Housing crisis, check. College affordability, check. Enrollment growth for students, check,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom gets his way, the $750 million campus housing grants slated for 2023–24 would drop to $500 million, and the remaining $250 million would become available in 2024–25. And rather than spending a combined $1.8 billion on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">campus no-interest loans\u003c/a> in 2023–24 and 2024–25, Newsom proposed zero dollars in 2023–24 and spreading the funds across the subsequent two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effectively the governor’s budget maintains the overall funding commitment for these two student housing programs,” said Michelle Nguyen of the Department of Finance, an office in the governor’s administration. “But given the budget outlook, the governor’s budget proposes funding delays for these programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be bad news for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/multimedia/podcasts/gimme-shelter/2022/11/california-student-housing-crisis/\">hundreds of thousands of college students\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/#:~:text=The%20system%20has%20made%20strides%3A\">desperate pursuit\u003c/a> of housing — even if these state efforts can build only a fraction of the living quarters survey data say is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparing campus-housing funding from cuts is a bipartisan sentiment in the Legislature. It’s important that “we have the funding available and not delayed … in order to build housing necessary to accommodate those students in the universities, especially when the state is requiring a certain level of enrollment for each university,” said Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, a Republican from Rancho Cucamonga, at a Senate subcommittee hearing last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty campuses remain unfazed and have submitted plans exceeding $2.1 billion to build as many as 12,700 additional dorm beds with low rents. The size of the projects varies, including 1,553 affordable beds at UC Riverside, 517 at San José State and 117 at Lassen Community College in northeastern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the University of California, the state grants supplement plans to construct \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/mar23/j1.pdf#page=3\">an extra 22,000 beds by 2028 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the state grant mix is housing for UC graduate students — 236 dorm beds at UC Merced, a campus \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2023/01/uc-housing-problem-persists-for-graduate-students/\">with just nine beds for graduate students\u003c/a> at a time when affordable housing was a major rallying cry for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">students striking late last fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the University of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">six grant proposals pencil out to about $108,000 per affordable bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; Cal State’s three projects \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">would cost $170,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; and the 21 plans submitted by community colleges — schools with little experience building student housing — \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=5\">would cost $205,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>. (Overall, last year’s approved state-funded dorms \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=affordable%20through%20the%20grant\">were slightly more expensive\u003c/a> per bed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the Legislature and Newsom agree to pull no dollars from the housing grant in 2023–24, most of those plans will go unfunded by the program. That’s because last year’s spending road map called for pouring $750 million into the grant in 2023–24 — about a third of the money colleges and universities are seeking.[aside postID=\"news_11937658,news_11938865\" label=\"Related Posts\"]It’s a case of déjà vu: When the affordable housing grant program took applications from campuses for the first time in 2021, 42 campuses submitted construction bids totaling $2.8 billion — well above the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=Lawmakers%20initially%20created%20a%20%24500%20million%20pot\">$500 million the state planned to spend\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the state eyeing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/newsom-budget-spending/\">a $100 billion budget surplus last year\u003c/a>, lawmakers and Newsom nearly tripled last year’s budget for the housing grant program, in part by advancing money from future budgets, ultimately greenlighting the construction of roughly 7,300 affordable residencies for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-budget/2023/01/california-budget-newsom-deficit/\">multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a> projected across several years, the state spending more to approve a larger number of projects isn’t likely this year. The Legislature and governor’s office will pick projects based on a rubric that takes into account details such as an area’s unmet need and the number of affordable beds new construction will create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, budgeting is an inexact science. The Cal State system is reporting that its construction costs for the nine dorms it sought to build last year rose by 14% between fall 2021 — when the system submitted their plans — and this January. A CSU senior official told lawmakers Tuesday that its campuses found most of the necessary outside funds, but the system still needs another $12 million in grant funds to pay for the projects approved last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also saw costs grow, but they’re paying for those internally, a university official told lawmakers yesterday. A court ruling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-cannabis-emerald-triangle/#:~:text=Is%20noise%20from%20student%20parties%20a%20type%20of%20pollution%3F%C2%A0\">stalling UC Berkeley’s housing plans\u003c/a> is another headwind for the UC.\u003cbr>\nCosts rising quickly is another reason some lawmakers don’t want to delay building student housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Campus housing: Students can’t get enough of it, and California public campuses can’t build dorm rooms fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed delaying by a year \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/BudgetSummary/HigherEducation.pdf#page=7\">nearly $1.2 billion in loans and grants (PDF)\u003c/a> that would build housing for thousands of students at affordable rates — money the state promised campuses in last year’s state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom seeks the delay to help balance the state’s projected $22.5 billion budget deficit in 2023–24. But lawmakers who hold huge sway over higher-education finances are adamant that no money is pulled from the state’s recent, unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/\">multibillion-dollar down payment\u003c/a> on affordable student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the intrigue, the Legislature’s own top policy adviser, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, proposed that the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2023/03/california-flood-reservoir-rain-snow/#:~:text=From%20CalMatters%20higher%20education%20reporter%20Mikhail%20Zinshteyn%3A\">completely drop its investment in student housing\u003c/a> or at least change how the money is spent. One such idea? Renege on \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4733/Student-Housing-030923.pdf#page=8\">a promise to continue sending community colleges grants (PDF)\u003c/a> to build more student housing for next year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ultimately the state must have a balanced budget before June 30, but if the last three legislative budget hearings on higher education are any indication, how much — and when — to spend on student housing will be a key point of friction between the Democrat-controlled Legislature and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plans to delay housing funding is “something that we don’t support, and we’re going to be looking at other options,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento and chair of the Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education, at a Tuesday hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a priority for the Senate and the Assembly the last couple years and just checks so many boxes: Housing crisis, check. College affordability, check. Enrollment growth for students, check,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom gets his way, the $750 million campus housing grants slated for 2023–24 would drop to $500 million, and the remaining $250 million would become available in 2024–25. And rather than spending a combined $1.8 billion on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">campus no-interest loans\u003c/a> in 2023–24 and 2024–25, Newsom proposed zero dollars in 2023–24 and spreading the funds across the subsequent two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effectively the governor’s budget maintains the overall funding commitment for these two student housing programs,” said Michelle Nguyen of the Department of Finance, an office in the governor’s administration. “But given the budget outlook, the governor’s budget proposes funding delays for these programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be bad news for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/multimedia/podcasts/gimme-shelter/2022/11/california-student-housing-crisis/\">hundreds of thousands of college students\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/#:~:text=The%20system%20has%20made%20strides%3A\">desperate pursuit\u003c/a> of housing — even if these state efforts can build only a fraction of the living quarters survey data say is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparing campus-housing funding from cuts is a bipartisan sentiment in the Legislature. It’s important that “we have the funding available and not delayed … in order to build housing necessary to accommodate those students in the universities, especially when the state is requiring a certain level of enrollment for each university,” said Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, a Republican from Rancho Cucamonga, at a Senate subcommittee hearing last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty campuses remain unfazed and have submitted plans exceeding $2.1 billion to build as many as 12,700 additional dorm beds with low rents. The size of the projects varies, including 1,553 affordable beds at UC Riverside, 517 at San José State and 117 at Lassen Community College in northeastern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the University of California, the state grants supplement plans to construct \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/mar23/j1.pdf#page=3\">an extra 22,000 beds by 2028 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the state grant mix is housing for UC graduate students — 236 dorm beds at UC Merced, a campus \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2023/01/uc-housing-problem-persists-for-graduate-students/\">with just nine beds for graduate students\u003c/a> at a time when affordable housing was a major rallying cry for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">students striking late last fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the University of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">six grant proposals pencil out to about $108,000 per affordable bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; Cal State’s three projects \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">would cost $170,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; and the 21 plans submitted by community colleges — schools with little experience building student housing — \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=5\">would cost $205,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>. (Overall, last year’s approved state-funded dorms \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=affordable%20through%20the%20grant\">were slightly more expensive\u003c/a> per bed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the Legislature and Newsom agree to pull no dollars from the housing grant in 2023–24, most of those plans will go unfunded by the program. That’s because last year’s spending road map called for pouring $750 million into the grant in 2023–24 — about a third of the money colleges and universities are seeking.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s a case of déjà vu: When the affordable housing grant program took applications from campuses for the first time in 2021, 42 campuses submitted construction bids totaling $2.8 billion — well above the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=Lawmakers%20initially%20created%20a%20%24500%20million%20pot\">$500 million the state planned to spend\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the state eyeing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/newsom-budget-spending/\">a $100 billion budget surplus last year\u003c/a>, lawmakers and Newsom nearly tripled last year’s budget for the housing grant program, in part by advancing money from future budgets, ultimately greenlighting the construction of roughly 7,300 affordable residencies for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-budget/2023/01/california-budget-newsom-deficit/\">multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a> projected across several years, the state spending more to approve a larger number of projects isn’t likely this year. The Legislature and governor’s office will pick projects based on a rubric that takes into account details such as an area’s unmet need and the number of affordable beds new construction will create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, budgeting is an inexact science. The Cal State system is reporting that its construction costs for the nine dorms it sought to build last year rose by 14% between fall 2021 — when the system submitted their plans — and this January. A CSU senior official told lawmakers Tuesday that its campuses found most of the necessary outside funds, but the system still needs another $12 million in grant funds to pay for the projects approved last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also saw costs grow, but they’re paying for those internally, a university official told lawmakers yesterday. A court ruling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-cannabis-emerald-triangle/#:~:text=Is%20noise%20from%20student%20parties%20a%20type%20of%20pollution%3F%C2%A0\">stalling UC Berkeley’s housing plans\u003c/a> is another headwind for the UC.\u003cbr>\nCosts rising quickly is another reason some lawmakers don’t want to delay building student housing. It’s likely “that delays will increase costs and lessen the number of beds projects can deliver,” staff for the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=7\">Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education wrote (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also considered whether the state should fund the no-interest loan program rather than the housing grants for the upcoming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official at the Legislative Analyst’s Office, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4733/Student-Housing-030923.pdf#page=7\">which floated the idea in a report (PDF)\u003c/a>, said there’s some merit to that because campuses could build more affordable housing with the same amount of money under the loan program. 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Typically, campuses issue bonds to build dorms and repay those with interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty also suggested that the state should pass on funding the dorm plans that community colleges submitted this year because they “aren’t ready for prime time.” He said the state could supply community colleges the money in 18 months to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior official at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office disputed that assertion. “All of these projects are not in an aspirational stage,” said Lizette Navarette, interim deputy chancellor. 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"content": "\u003cp>Smoke rose from a sizzling grill. Racks of ribs, steaks and pork chops filled large aluminum foil pans sitting on white plastic folding tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Alexander, master chef of People’s Park, wore a white apron with the six-pack abs of a bodybuilder on the front. Alexander, who had his blond hair in a ponytail, shuffled around the grill in scuffed Nike Blazers as sweat dripped from his brow. Barbecues are a cornerstone of the community that have made People’s Park their home, but on a sunny afternoon in September it felt like the Last Supper.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nicholas Alexander, master chef, People's Park\"]‘Oftentimes, the most resources I get to do my barbecues or do what I’m doing here are coming from those that have the least. And they’re doing that because we’re family.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slice of land in South Berkeley that has been a refuge for those with nowhere else to go is marked for development. Most of the trees that provided daytime shade were cut down in August when UC Berkeley attempted to start construction on student housing. Protesters cut holes in the chain-link fence, stopping the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about a dozen tents — dots of blue and red scattered across the 3-acre lot — remain. Many longtime residents have relocated, but a dozen or so people spend most of their time at home in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942029 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Different colored tents and camping equipment by trees in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trunks of fruit, redwood and oak trees, some massive, were dragged by People’s Park residents into a semicircle around the base of one of the last trees standing. It’s a place to sit, eat barbecue and reminisce about what the park used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hadn’t had one in a long time, and one of our community members ended up donating their food stamps — there’s something around like $800 on it,” Alexander said about the barbecue. “Oftentimes, the most resources I get to do my barbecues or do what I’m doing here are coming from those that have the least. And they’re doing that because we’re family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park is four blocks from UC Berkeley’s campus. The university, which warns incoming students to avoid the park, needs 8,000 units to alleviate a housing crisis that has left some students unhoused and many others scraping by to live in Berkeley where, according to Zillow, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/berkeley-ca/\">median rent is $2,950\u003c/a>, roughly $1,000 more than the national median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction on a 1,100-bed project was halted by a state appellate court in August. In December, the court released a “tentative decision” that sided with park advocates. According to the court, the university, which has said the project will also include supportive housing units, failed to consider other sites. The court also said that the development plan could run afoul of the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men play chess at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941907/appeals-court-sends-uc-berkeley-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-peoples-park-development\">the state appellate court ruled that the project must stop\u003c/a>. In the decision, though, the court said the university does not need to abandon it, but “must return to the trial court and fix the errors” in the environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A165451.PDF\">ruling stems from a 2021 lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> filed by neighbors and activists concerned about the influx of student residents adversely affecting the neighborhood and seeking to preserve People’s Park as a historic landmark of student protest and a residence and resource site for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last park residents standing have a reprieve — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, People’s Park has had an active community with its own rules and problems. It is a destination maligned by clashes with police and a reputation for drugs and crime, whether deserved or not. For people like Alexander, the park space is worth preserving — and occupying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942019 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing multicolored scarves and masks stand in the middle of tents. The woman on the right looks down at plastic bag she's holding while the woman on the left holds fruit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents care for each other because they share a common bond: being unable to afford a place to live in one of the most expensive regions in the country. They share resources, from a magnifying glass to help with bad eyesight to first-aid supplies, paintbrushes and fresh pillowcases. They look after each other’s pets. They share their food and food stamps. Some have shared tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Morales, a longtime People’s Park resident, said he moved to Berkeley from Guatemala when he was 15. He heard about the peace and love movement in Berkeley, which inspired him in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have the right to speak, to say what our feelings were,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales frequently cooked breakfast for the park’s residents. The kitchen is where Morales explored his Latin roots, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coffee and scrambled eggs — you know, scrambled eggs with tortillas, with some cheese. They love it,” he said. “I’ve made different things, and I always combine some Latino flavor — add a little amount of our cheese or add some of our sausage or something. And then when it’s done I go around yelling, ‘Good morning, mother flower,’ waking everyone up to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A perception of violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the few public green spaces in Berkeley, People’s Park is off Telegraph Avenue, between Haste Street and Dwight Way. It’s near where students gather at Romeo’s Coffee, Mezzo and Moe’s Books. To live in Southside Berkeley is to know People’s Park.[aside postID=\"news_11941907,news_11923876,forum_2010101890205\" label=\"Related Posts\"]A symbol of counterculture, the park became a community gathering spot in the 1960s. Over the decades, it has hosted concerts, stand-up comedy, dance performances and circuses. The university acquired the land through eminent domain in 1967 with the intention of turning it into student housing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sarahdoggett/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Whose-Peoples-Park-by-Sarah-Doggett.pdf\">\u003cem>Picture This, California Perspectives on American History\u003c/em> (PDF)\u003c/a>, an educational resource from the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was not enough funding to complete the housing project, and the land became a muddy, garbage-filled dumping ground according to \u003cem>Picture This\u003c/em>. Community members cleaned the park and attempted to turn it into a community space, but after a month of work they were stopped by bulldozers and police officers sent by the university and the city. This launched a months-long protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 15, 1969, a date known as Bloody Thursday, California Highway Patrol officers surrounded the park. The officers waited for about 3,000 students to march there after a protest at Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley’s campus. The students were pelted with bird shot and blasts of tear gas. One person died, and 110 people were injured. The National Guard was summoned by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan to end the chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942033 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A spraypainted sign reads \"Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings\" near tents in a park.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decades-long battle for who has rights to the park continues. On Aug. 3, construction was disrupted by dozens of protesters who ignored police orders and tore down the security fencing and attempted to physically block construction vehicles. The California 1st District Court of Appeal placed an injunction on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students’ perceptions of the park tend to be shaped by stories disseminated by the university: Freshmen arrive in Berkeley armed with warnings from their parents’ Facebook groups that share tales about drugs and crime in the park. Orientation leaders for the university supply tips on how to stay safe when passing the park at night. And notifications from UC Berkeley WarnMe, an emergency notification system, flood phones with emails and text messages, often advising students to avoid the area because of “dangerous activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [orientation leaders] told us to use BearWalk or the night shuttle and to always be aware of our surroundings when we’re in this area,” said UC Berkeley freshman Charlotte Palmer, referring to the night safety services offered by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/10/06/2022-berkeley-gunfire-map-berkeleyside\">Berkeleyside compiled shooting reports from the last few years\u003c/a> to document the increase in gun violence. On Oct. 8, there was a fatal shooting on Telegraph Avenue, the third person slain in Berkeley in 2022 compared to zero in 2021. Park residents said the violence isn’t coming from within their community. Rather, violence in the city bleeds into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is a lot of violence, but ultimately there is a lot more violence that happens around Berkeley and South Berkeley,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He equated the conflicts that erupt inside the park to the types of fights any family has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re unhoused, when you don’t have that much stuff, when you’re dealing with not getting enough sleep, when you might be using and then someone happens to steal the little that you have left, I would probably snap, too,” Alexander said. “I think that’s what a lot of people miss. They just see the violence and they think of people here as horrible, not worthy of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this violence can be blamed on the society we find ourselves in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding the needs of unhoused people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/everyone-counts/\">2022 point-in-time count of unhoused people in Alameda County\u003c/a> by EveryOne Home, an organization that works to end homelessness, reported 9,747 unhoused people in the county. Just over 1,000 live in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, People’s Park residents were offered rooms at Rodeway Inn, the rectangular, off-white building on University Avenue. The inn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921155/last-days-at-the-radisson-as-state-shelter-program-shutters-formerly-unhoused-residents-in-oakland-brace-for-next-steps\">operated under Project Roomkey, a state-funded program that created transitional facilities\u003c/a>. Around 40 of the 64 park residents chose to move there. Other residents had housing alternatives or were in the process of transitioning to another housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, an assistant to Berkeley’s city manager and the city’s homeless services coordinator, said the city is funding housing navigators and landlord liaison services, and helping residents with “getting their documents in order, getting their applications together, getting their proof of income together — all the things that you need to be ready to sign a lease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, “And then on the landlord side, searching for landlords who are wanting to partner with us, advocating on behalf of the clients to those landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ari Neulight, UC Berkeley’s homeless outreach coordinator who works closely with the unhoused community around the university, including People’s Park, said most of the original Rodeway Inn residents moved to other permanent housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodeway Inn provided temporary housing and food, but it did not offer mental health services. Neulight said the two goals for the project were based on park resident feedback: They wanted a place to sleep that wouldn’t be interrupted by the police and somewhere to congregate during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just a few months of living there, some inn residents felt like their needs were not being met. Morales, the longtime resident of People’s Park, said the staff treated residents like they were still unhoused. They weren’t given keys to their rooms, and staff members locked and unlocked the doors. Many of the residents left their doors open during the day to maintain independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942054\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a sleeveless red t-shirt looks out from on top of a makeshift structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Alexander looks out from the top of a structure made in the park. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking at us like we’re just homeless people, and they don’t have to care about us,” said Morales, who lived at the inn. “We are people, too. We aren’t here to fight with anyone. We’re here to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch, professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning who has researched urban homelessness, said it is important that unhoused people not feel like they are at the whim of the city.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jennifer Wolch, professor, UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning\"]‘It’s important to understand that when people are living essentially unsheltered — in either communities on the sidewalk or in tent communities or under a freeway or [in a] vehicle community — they survive in no small part because they have relationships with other people.’[/pullquote]“One of the things that I found when talking to folks that may be living in their cars or living in an encampment is they will often say, ‘This is my choice,’ or, ‘This is what I want,’ as a way of asserting individual autonomy,” Wolch said. “Most people understand that it’s not because they literally would rather be on the street than in a nice apartment, but it says to whoever is talking to them, ‘I’m a person, and I have respect for myself, and I have autonomy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said he graduated from City College of San Francisco in 2021, where he studied psychology and social work. He has volunteered in community outreach for years, but after interacting with the staff at Rodeway Inn, which is managed by Abode Services, a Fremont-based nonprofit, he sees a potential career path where he could combine his passion for community and his life experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A professional guy with a diploma from a university or whatever can implement whatever he learned from the stupid books, but he can’t understand us, the people,” Morales said. “If he’s not capable of doing his job, then he can go find another job because I can do (the job). I graduated from the same field. I can do paperwork, I can do outreach and I can be a housing coordinator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each resident at Rodeway Inn was offered a single or shared room with a bed, table and small bathroom. The beige walls provided less of a creative outlet and self-expression than the residents had in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask, camouflage jacket and dark pants holds a microphone while people in the background and to the side watch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aidan Hill speaks during a Friday meeting at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To give it a real analysis, what they call transitional housing means transition people from the street back to the street,” said former park resident Lisa Teague, who now lives next to the park in a Satellite Affordable Housing Associates housing complex. “Providing housing doesn’t solve the problem. They seem to think that the sort of jail-like atmosphere is important to somehow cause people to adjust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People’s Park community felt like they were being divided by the city and the university. According to Wolch, this loss of community could impact mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to understand that when people are living essentially unsheltered — in either communities on the sidewalk or in tent communities or under a freeway or [in a] vehicle community — they survive in no small part because they have relationships with other people,” she said. “But people, if they’ve been in that kind of community and understand the way it has been central to their ability to navigate this kind of extreme situation, then being completely torn away from that community may make people say, ‘No, I’m not going to a housing situation.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A vision for the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alexander recognizes that community support matters whether you’re living outside or under a roof. He developed a connection to the park long before he was a resident: When he was 17, Alexander took a bus from a commune in Oregon to Berkeley, where he soon found the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never lived in this park perpetually, but for months on end I used to be the hammock person,” Alexander, now 35, said. “I would put hammocks up in trees and the cops would literally kick people out from under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, his “family” was a group of wandering souls. Some were members of the foster youth community; others had run away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all along Telegraph, all along Shattuck,” Alexander fondly recalled. “It was really those folks that introduced me to street life in Berkeley and kind of welcomed me as family. And we are family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942024 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a red sleeveless shirt that says \"The Amazing Spider-Pig\" with an illustration puts his arm around a person wearing glasses and dark clothes with a light-colored blanket over their shoulder.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teague and Alexander share a laugh on Sept. 21, 2022. Alexander describes the People’s Park community as family. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland, which he calls his vacation home. He wants to transfer his Section 8 housing voucher to Berkeley. He maintains a built, domed structure in the park. He said he will move out of the park once the university abandons construction plans or if he is physically removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of tears, a lot of community members crying everywhere, and going through their own personal grief,” said Alexander, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/08/22/peoples-park-activist-arrested-by-berkeley-police-released-charges-dropped\">arrested for his role in the protest that blocked construction in August\u003c/a>. “Seeing so many trees cut down, so many memories, so many stories that will now only be in memory, that’s a true tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a fenced-in circle with only one entrance and exit, residents store first-aid supplies and food donations. They sit on stray couches and logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen is at the center of Alexander’s dome, which is camouflaged by planks of plywood that have been painted by residents. There are rebellious messages to the university and supportive words for the people occupying the park. At the very top of this dome, a hammock swayed in the breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On either side of the hammock, Alexander stores old riot gear: gas masks, black bandanas and a shield with the transgender rights flag and the words “We are People’s Park” on the front. There is a trapdoor in the structure, perfect for a quick escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander maintains he has a vision for the park’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My ultimate goal, maybe even where the kitchen is, would be a little community center here with social workers and resource workers that would essentially change some of the dynamics of the park that have more problematic behavior,” he said. “Really honoring the legacy of People’s Park, not trying to sanitize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tongs he used to flip the ribs were in his hand as he spoke wistfully of his plans for renovating the dome. He wants to add a second floor, an even higher platform to fly his Rebel Alliance flag from Star Wars, a symbol of resistance as the remaining residents of People’s Park persist in making a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slice of land in South Berkeley that has been a refuge for those with nowhere else to go is marked for development. Most of the trees that provided daytime shade were cut down in August when UC Berkeley attempted to start construction on student housing. Protesters cut holes in the chain-link fence, stopping the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about a dozen tents — dots of blue and red scattered across the 3-acre lot — remain. Many longtime residents have relocated, but a dozen or so people spend most of their time at home in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942029 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Different colored tents and camping equipment by trees in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47371_037_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trunks of fruit, redwood and oak trees, some massive, were dragged by People’s Park residents into a semicircle around the base of one of the last trees standing. It’s a place to sit, eat barbecue and reminisce about what the park used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hadn’t had one in a long time, and one of our community members ended up donating their food stamps — there’s something around like $800 on it,” Alexander said about the barbecue. “Oftentimes, the most resources I get to do my barbecues or do what I’m doing here are coming from those that have the least. And they’re doing that because we’re family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park is four blocks from UC Berkeley’s campus. The university, which warns incoming students to avoid the park, needs 8,000 units to alleviate a housing crisis that has left some students unhoused and many others scraping by to live in Berkeley where, according to Zillow, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/berkeley-ca/\">median rent is $2,950\u003c/a>, roughly $1,000 more than the national median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction on a 1,100-bed project was halted by a state appellate court in August. In December, the court released a “tentative decision” that sided with park advocates. According to the court, the university, which has said the project will also include supportive housing units, failed to consider other sites. The court also said that the development plan could run afoul of the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47363_029_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men play chess at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941907/appeals-court-sends-uc-berkeley-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-peoples-park-development\">the state appellate court ruled that the project must stop\u003c/a>. In the decision, though, the court said the university does not need to abandon it, but “must return to the trial court and fix the errors” in the environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A165451.PDF\">ruling stems from a 2021 lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> filed by neighbors and activists concerned about the influx of student residents adversely affecting the neighborhood and seeking to preserve People’s Park as a historic landmark of student protest and a residence and resource site for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last park residents standing have a reprieve — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, People’s Park has had an active community with its own rules and problems. It is a destination maligned by clashes with police and a reputation for drugs and crime, whether deserved or not. For people like Alexander, the park space is worth preserving — and occupying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942019 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing multicolored scarves and masks stand in the middle of tents. The woman on the right looks down at plastic bag she's holding while the woman on the left holds fruit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents care for each other because they share a common bond: being unable to afford a place to live in one of the most expensive regions in the country. They share resources, from a magnifying glass to help with bad eyesight to first-aid supplies, paintbrushes and fresh pillowcases. They look after each other’s pets. They share their food and food stamps. Some have shared tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Morales, a longtime People’s Park resident, said he moved to Berkeley from Guatemala when he was 15. He heard about the peace and love movement in Berkeley, which inspired him in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have the right to speak, to say what our feelings were,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales frequently cooked breakfast for the park’s residents. The kitchen is where Morales explored his Latin roots, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coffee and scrambled eggs — you know, scrambled eggs with tortillas, with some cheese. They love it,” he said. “I’ve made different things, and I always combine some Latino flavor — add a little amount of our cheese or add some of our sausage or something. And then when it’s done I go around yelling, ‘Good morning, mother flower,’ waking everyone up to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A perception of violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the few public green spaces in Berkeley, People’s Park is off Telegraph Avenue, between Haste Street and Dwight Way. It’s near where students gather at Romeo’s Coffee, Mezzo and Moe’s Books. To live in Southside Berkeley is to know People’s Park.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A symbol of counterculture, the park became a community gathering spot in the 1960s. Over the decades, it has hosted concerts, stand-up comedy, dance performances and circuses. The university acquired the land through eminent domain in 1967 with the intention of turning it into student housing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sarahdoggett/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Whose-Peoples-Park-by-Sarah-Doggett.pdf\">\u003cem>Picture This, California Perspectives on American History\u003c/em> (PDF)\u003c/a>, an educational resource from the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was not enough funding to complete the housing project, and the land became a muddy, garbage-filled dumping ground according to \u003cem>Picture This\u003c/em>. Community members cleaned the park and attempted to turn it into a community space, but after a month of work they were stopped by bulldozers and police officers sent by the university and the city. This launched a months-long protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 15, 1969, a date known as Bloody Thursday, California Highway Patrol officers surrounded the park. The officers waited for about 3,000 students to march there after a protest at Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley’s campus. The students were pelted with bird shot and blasts of tear gas. One person died, and 110 people were injured. The National Guard was summoned by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan to end the chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942033 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A spraypainted sign reads \"Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings\" near tents in a park.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decades-long battle for who has rights to the park continues. On Aug. 3, construction was disrupted by dozens of protesters who ignored police orders and tore down the security fencing and attempted to physically block construction vehicles. The California 1st District Court of Appeal placed an injunction on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students’ perceptions of the park tend to be shaped by stories disseminated by the university: Freshmen arrive in Berkeley armed with warnings from their parents’ Facebook groups that share tales about drugs and crime in the park. Orientation leaders for the university supply tips on how to stay safe when passing the park at night. And notifications from UC Berkeley WarnMe, an emergency notification system, flood phones with emails and text messages, often advising students to avoid the area because of “dangerous activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [orientation leaders] told us to use BearWalk or the night shuttle and to always be aware of our surroundings when we’re in this area,” said UC Berkeley freshman Charlotte Palmer, referring to the night safety services offered by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/10/06/2022-berkeley-gunfire-map-berkeleyside\">Berkeleyside compiled shooting reports from the last few years\u003c/a> to document the increase in gun violence. On Oct. 8, there was a fatal shooting on Telegraph Avenue, the third person slain in Berkeley in 2022 compared to zero in 2021. Park residents said the violence isn’t coming from within their community. Rather, violence in the city bleeds into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is a lot of violence, but ultimately there is a lot more violence that happens around Berkeley and South Berkeley,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He equated the conflicts that erupt inside the park to the types of fights any family has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re unhoused, when you don’t have that much stuff, when you’re dealing with not getting enough sleep, when you might be using and then someone happens to steal the little that you have left, I would probably snap, too,” Alexander said. “I think that’s what a lot of people miss. They just see the violence and they think of people here as horrible, not worthy of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this violence can be blamed on the society we find ourselves in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding the needs of unhoused people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/main/continuum-of-care/everyone-counts/\">2022 point-in-time count of unhoused people in Alameda County\u003c/a> by EveryOne Home, an organization that works to end homelessness, reported 9,747 unhoused people in the county. Just over 1,000 live in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, People’s Park residents were offered rooms at Rodeway Inn, the rectangular, off-white building on University Avenue. The inn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921155/last-days-at-the-radisson-as-state-shelter-program-shutters-formerly-unhoused-residents-in-oakland-brace-for-next-steps\">operated under Project Roomkey, a state-funded program that created transitional facilities\u003c/a>. Around 40 of the 64 park residents chose to move there. Other residents had housing alternatives or were in the process of transitioning to another housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, an assistant to Berkeley’s city manager and the city’s homeless services coordinator, said the city is funding housing navigators and landlord liaison services, and helping residents with “getting their documents in order, getting their applications together, getting their proof of income together — all the things that you need to be ready to sign a lease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, “And then on the landlord side, searching for landlords who are wanting to partner with us, advocating on behalf of the clients to those landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ari Neulight, UC Berkeley’s homeless outreach coordinator who works closely with the unhoused community around the university, including People’s Park, said most of the original Rodeway Inn residents moved to other permanent housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodeway Inn provided temporary housing and food, but it did not offer mental health services. Neulight said the two goals for the project were based on park resident feedback: They wanted a place to sleep that wouldn’t be interrupted by the police and somewhere to congregate during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just a few months of living there, some inn residents felt like their needs were not being met. Morales, the longtime resident of People’s Park, said the staff treated residents like they were still unhoused. They weren’t given keys to their rooms, and staff members locked and unlocked the doors. Many of the residents left their doors open during the day to maintain independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942054\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a sleeveless red t-shirt looks out from on top of a makeshift structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58960_DSC02563-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Alexander looks out from the top of a structure made in the park. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking at us like we’re just homeless people, and they don’t have to care about us,” said Morales, who lived at the inn. “We are people, too. We aren’t here to fight with anyone. We’re here to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch, professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning who has researched urban homelessness, said it is important that unhoused people not feel like they are at the whim of the city.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the things that I found when talking to folks that may be living in their cars or living in an encampment is they will often say, ‘This is my choice,’ or, ‘This is what I want,’ as a way of asserting individual autonomy,” Wolch said. “Most people understand that it’s not because they literally would rather be on the street than in a nice apartment, but it says to whoever is talking to them, ‘I’m a person, and I have respect for myself, and I have autonomy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said he graduated from City College of San Francisco in 2021, where he studied psychology and social work. He has volunteered in community outreach for years, but after interacting with the staff at Rodeway Inn, which is managed by Abode Services, a Fremont-based nonprofit, he sees a potential career path where he could combine his passion for community and his life experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A professional guy with a diploma from a university or whatever can implement whatever he learned from the stupid books, but he can’t understand us, the people,” Morales said. “If he’s not capable of doing his job, then he can go find another job because I can do (the job). I graduated from the same field. I can do paperwork, I can do outreach and I can be a housing coordinator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each resident at Rodeway Inn was offered a single or shared room with a bed, table and small bathroom. The beige walls provided less of a creative outlet and self-expression than the residents had in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask, camouflage jacket and dark pants holds a microphone while people in the background and to the side watch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS47355_021_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aidan Hill speaks during a Friday meeting at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To give it a real analysis, what they call transitional housing means transition people from the street back to the street,” said former park resident Lisa Teague, who now lives next to the park in a Satellite Affordable Housing Associates housing complex. “Providing housing doesn’t solve the problem. They seem to think that the sort of jail-like atmosphere is important to somehow cause people to adjust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People’s Park community felt like they were being divided by the city and the university. According to Wolch, this loss of community could impact mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to understand that when people are living essentially unsheltered — in either communities on the sidewalk or in tent communities or under a freeway or [in a] vehicle community — they survive in no small part because they have relationships with other people,” she said. “But people, if they’ve been in that kind of community and understand the way it has been central to their ability to navigate this kind of extreme situation, then being completely torn away from that community may make people say, ‘No, I’m not going to a housing situation.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A vision for the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alexander recognizes that community support matters whether you’re living outside or under a roof. He developed a connection to the park long before he was a resident: When he was 17, Alexander took a bus from a commune in Oregon to Berkeley, where he soon found the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never lived in this park perpetually, but for months on end I used to be the hammock person,” Alexander, now 35, said. “I would put hammocks up in trees and the cops would literally kick people out from under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, his “family” was a group of wandering souls. Some were members of the foster youth community; others had run away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all along Telegraph, all along Shattuck,” Alexander fondly recalled. “It was really those folks that introduced me to street life in Berkeley and kind of welcomed me as family. And we are family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942024 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a red sleeveless shirt that says \"The Amazing Spider-Pig\" with an illustration puts his arm around a person wearing glasses and dark clothes with a light-colored blanket over their shoulder.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58974_DSC02667-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teague and Alexander share a laugh on Sept. 21, 2022. Alexander describes the People’s Park community as family. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland, which he calls his vacation home. He wants to transfer his Section 8 housing voucher to Berkeley. He maintains a built, domed structure in the park. He said he will move out of the park once the university abandons construction plans or if he is physically removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of tears, a lot of community members crying everywhere, and going through their own personal grief,” said Alexander, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/08/22/peoples-park-activist-arrested-by-berkeley-police-released-charges-dropped\">arrested for his role in the protest that blocked construction in August\u003c/a>. “Seeing so many trees cut down, so many memories, so many stories that will now only be in memory, that’s a true tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a fenced-in circle with only one entrance and exit, residents store first-aid supplies and food donations. They sit on stray couches and logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen is at the center of Alexander’s dome, which is camouflaged by planks of plywood that have been painted by residents. There are rebellious messages to the university and supportive words for the people occupying the park. At the very top of this dome, a hammock swayed in the breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On either side of the hammock, Alexander stores old riot gear: gas masks, black bandanas and a shield with the transgender rights flag and the words “We are People’s Park” on the front. There is a trapdoor in the structure, perfect for a quick escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander maintains he has a vision for the park’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My ultimate goal, maybe even where the kitchen is, would be a little community center here with social workers and resource workers that would essentially change some of the dynamics of the park that have more problematic behavior,” he said. “Really honoring the legacy of People’s Park, not trying to sanitize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tongs he used to flip the ribs were in his hand as he spoke wistfully of his plans for renovating the dome. He wants to add a second floor, an even higher platform to fly his Rebel Alliance flag from Star Wars, a symbol of resistance as the remaining residents of People’s Park persist in making a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2 p.m. Sunday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An appeals court has ruled that UC Berkeley may not move forward with plans to build student housing on People’s Park until it addresses problems within the project’s environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1st District Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A165451.PDF\">issued a unanimous decision (PDF)\u003c/a> Friday to overturn a July 2022 ruling that allowed the university to begin construction on housing for roughly 1,100 students as well as 125 lower-income and unhoused residents.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"UC Berkeley\"]‘Left in place, this decision will indefinitely delay all of UC Berkeley’s planned student housing, which is desperately needed by our students and fully supported by the City of Berkeley’s mayor and other elected representatives.’[/pullquote]“The EIR failed to justify the decision not to consider alternative locations to the People’s Park project,” the ruling reads. “In addition, it failed to assess potential noise impacts from loud student parties in residential neighborhoods near the campus, a long-standing problem that the EIR improperly dismissed as speculative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley vowed to appeal the case to the state’s supreme court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Left in place, this decision will indefinitely delay all of UC Berkeley’s planned student housing, which is desperately needed by our students and fully supported by the City of Berkeley’s mayor and other elected representatives,” the university wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling stems from a 2021 lawsuit filed by neighbors and activists concerned about the influx of student residents adversely affecting the neighborhood and seeking to preserve People’s Park as a historic landmark of student protest and a residence and resource site for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our decision does not require the Regents to abandon the People’s Park project. However, they must return to the trial court and fix the errors in the EIR,” the decision reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesparkhxdist.org/\">People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group \u003c/a>— one of the plaintiffs in the case — said even though the court’s decision seemed like a “win” because they “decided in our favor,” he expressed disappointment that UC Berkeley was still going ahead with their decision to build student housing on People’s Park.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101890205,news_11921415,news_11861666\"]“[UC Berkeley] is stubborn, arrogant, and they want to continue fighting this rather than take the more reasonable course of saying … let’s move on” he said. “They have 15 alternative sites that they have enumerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from deciding the future of People’s Park, many are watching the case for the effects it could have on a contentious state environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that builders and local governments analyze the environmental impacts of proposed development projects and work to mitigate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the law have long argued that it has been abused by those opposed to developments near their homes and businesses as a way to block or delay new housing under the pretense of seeking more information to assess environmental concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the appellate court now ruling that the university should consider the noise impact from student parties, some worry CEQA (pronounced see-kwuh) will now be applied in similar fashion elsewhere, blocking or delaying housing development across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision has the potential to prevent colleges and universities across the State of California from providing students with the housing they need and deserve,” the university wrote. “This decision bestows new privileges and power to the privileged and powerful by arming NIMBY neighbors with additional weapons to obstruct the development of all new urban housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California state Senator Scott Wiener vented his frustration with what he called “an absurd and dangerous” ruling on Twitter, vowing legislative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Court of Appeal just issued an absurd & dangerous ruling that people are pollution & CEQA requires evaluation of the type of people who will live in proposed new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll shortly introduce legislation to put an end to this nonsense. Stay tuned. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/472falo0u1\">https://t.co/472falo0u1\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1629508923404460032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court seemed to anticipate this backlash in their ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are, of course, aware of the public interest in this case … We do not take sides on policy issues,” the judges wrote. “Our task is limited. We must apply the laws that the Legislature has written to the facts in the record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We agree that the Legislature did not intend CEQA to be used as a redlining weapon by neighbors who oppose projects based on prejudice rather than environmental concerns,” the judges added later in the 47-page decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith insists that the university’s concern over the impact to CEQA is a red herring, and that the goal of plaintiffs is not to block student housing, but to preserve the park.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Harvey Smith, president, People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group\"]‘[UC Berkeley] is stubborn, arrogant, and they want to continue fighting this rather than take the more reasonable course of saying … let’s move on.’[/pullquote]“Our group is definitely in favor of student housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Saturday marks day six of what labor leaders are calling the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education. Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers — including graduate students, post-docs and researchers across the university’s 10 campuses — walked off the job Nov. 14 to demand better pay and benefits and an end to what they describe as unfair negotiating tactics by the UC. The strike has disrupted instruction across the university system, just weeks ahead of final exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University leaders say they have bargained in good faith and that they have made generous offers. On Wednesday afternoon, one UC senior leader also warned that certain union demands were financially unfeasible for the university to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are academic workers striking?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The majority of UC graduate students spend more than a third of their income on rent, according to a union survey, with an average income of around $24,000 a year — hardly enough to make ends meet in cities like Berkeley, Los Angeles or San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators are demanding a minimum annual salary of $54,000 for graduate workers and $70,000 for postdoctoral workers, and a 14% pay bump for academic researchers, which they say would reflect the cost-of-living increase in the state. The union is also pushing UC to offer child care subsidies, better health care for dependents, public-transit passes, better accessibility for workers with disabilities and lower tuition costs for international scholars.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11932147,news_11932471,forum_2010101891301\"]Neal Sweeney, a postdoctoral scholar in molecular biology at UC Santa Cruz, is the president of UAW 5810, the union that represents postdocs and academic researchers. But up until taking his union position, said Sweeney, he and his family were struggling to get by while he was working between 50 and 60 hours each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The salary was so low that every month I really had to think about if I would make it through that month,” Sweeney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891301/48000-academic-workers-strike-across-university-of-california-campuse\">told KQED Forum\u003c/a>. “Just getting coffee — I had to think about every single expense. I had two small children. My partner was a full-time student. We lived in campus family housing, and we went to the campus food bank every month due to make sure we had food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, he notes, “My research was bringing in millions of dollars in funding for the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among teaching assistants and other academic student employees — who are represented by a different local, UAW 2865 — it’s not uncommon to hear stories of graduate students resorting to three or more jobs, or even experiencing homelessness, said Sweeney, pointing to a UCLA teaching assistant, Bernard Rumley, who lived out of his car for the 2018-19 academic year. A doctoral student at UC Riverside, Jacob Kemner, supplements his $28,000 annual salary with twice-weekly blood plasma donations for an extra $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators are also protesting what they’ve called unfair bargaining tactics by the university over the course of negotiations, which began in the spring of 2021. UAW has filed at least 25 unfair labor practice claims against the university with California’s Public Employment Relations Board, and the board has issued complaints in six cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/university-of-california-strike-academic-workers-graduate-students\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. The university has denied these allegations.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How has the university responded?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In negotiations, the university has \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW#offers\">offered academic workers a $2,500 reimbursement for child care\u003c/a>, expanded parental leave, a pre-tax commuter benefit and multiyear pay increases that vary per bargaining unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23309878-provostletter\">system’s 10 chancellors (PDF)\u003c/a>, released Wednesday, UC Provost Michael T. Brown said “I respect their choice” to strike, and acknowledged the “significant challenge” that California’s soaring housing costs create for students and employees. But he said that the union demand to tie compensation to housing costs “could have overwhelming financial impacts on the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letitia Silas, executive director of systemwide labor relations for UC’s Office of the President, echoed that on KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in negotiations and we will proceed as we have for the last year in good faith. [But] we talk about housing and tying wages to rental rates, that is very dangerous,” she said. “That could have an overwhelming financial impact on the university … as you know, the UC does not control rental rates for non-UC housing, and the UC can’t predict nor responsibly budget for such subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11932491 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png\" alt='A variety of smiling, mostly young, multiethnic people wearing casual clothing march in a line holding white and blue signs affixed to wooden poles that say \"UAW On Strike, Unfair Labor Practice,\" along a city sidewalk in the dappled shade of large trees.' width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-1020x630.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers form a picket line at UC Berkeley on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tying wages to rental rates could have the unintended consequence of subsidizing private landlords and companies and further exacerbating rental costs for other Californians,” she said. “So we’re mindful of all these factors as we have continued to propose fair wage increases for these employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas also emphasized that many teaching assistants are working part-time, at 20 hours per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Brown pushed back against the demand to waive out-of-state tuition for international scholars. “If we were to provide remission of out-of state supplemental tuition, non-California student employees would in effect receive a larger compensation package than California resident student employees for doing the same work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the university’s offer of multiyear pay raises includes up to 10% increases within the first year of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those raises fall far short of the increases the union is pushing for. Organizers argue their demands are essential for academic workers to earn a living wage, and would total no more than 3% of UC’s entire $44 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the money that we need to be able to address the cost of living and housing in California,” said Sweeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How have undergraduate students been affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC officials have told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participate in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some campuses, students joined in solidarity. Lex Von Klark, a 22-year-old political science student at UCLA, was among several hundred people on campus holding signs and participating in the picket line on Monday, the first day of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am out here primarily because these people are my teachers, and their working conditions are my learning conditions,” he said. “Basically, if my teachers are getting paid less than a living wage and have to work multiple jobs, it makes it hard for me to get a high-end education.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"John Logan, director, Labor and Employment Studies department, SFSU\"]‘I think there’s going to be tremendous pressure from a whole variety of quarters on university administration to get serious and to resume bargaining in good faith and to come to an agreement that’s acceptable to both parties.’[/pullquote]At UC Davis, some undergraduates appeared to have mixed feelings about the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932471/uc-undergraduate-students-divided-in-reaction-to-strike\">according to EdSource\u003c/a>, but many were supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solan Castro, a first-year undergraduate studying public health and molecular cell biology, joined the picket line on Wednesday instead of attending class. He said that even with finals coming up, he’s not worried about how the strike might affect his grades. “A lot of professors have opened up more office hours, also in solidarity with the graduate student instructors,” he said, noting that he believes graduate student teaching assistants are often key to undergraduates’ success.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is this part of a wider trend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The UC academic workers’ strike comes on the heels of a surge of high-profile labor actions and union organizing this year, both in California and across the country, as demand for workers in multiple industries has spiked. In recent months, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of labor activism, particularly among nurses and other health care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to John Logan, director of the Labor and Employment Studies department at San Francisco State University, it’s part of a groundswell of organizing in education as well. “I think it’s important to understand that this is part of a national trend that’s been happening for a number of decades now,” Logan told KQED Forum, noting that unionization began at Berkeley in the 1980s, but the union only began bargaining in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board in 2016 allowed private university graduate students to organize as well, leading to unions in recent years at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia, New York University, Brown University, Georgetown, the University of Chicago and Boston University, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re now talking about upwards of 100,000 unionized graduate students, employees throughout the country. And the issues, quite frankly, are similar,” said Logan. “I think they’re more severe in California because of the astronomical living costs and particularly the housing costs … and so [there’s a] huge gulf that exists between what the university is offering in terms of pay and other benefits and what the graduate students say is necessary for absolute basic quality of life and livable wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If over 90% of graduate student employees are paying more than 30% of their income on housing costs, it’s simply not sustainable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Negotiations are expected to continue between the UC and the union over the coming week. 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We lived in campus family housing, and we went to the campus food bank every month due to make sure we had food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, he notes, “My research was bringing in millions of dollars in funding for the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among teaching assistants and other academic student employees — who are represented by a different local, UAW 2865 — it’s not uncommon to hear stories of graduate students resorting to three or more jobs, or even experiencing homelessness, said Sweeney, pointing to a UCLA teaching assistant, Bernard Rumley, who lived out of his car for the 2018-19 academic year. A doctoral student at UC Riverside, Jacob Kemner, supplements his $28,000 annual salary with twice-weekly blood plasma donations for an extra $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators are also protesting what they’ve called unfair bargaining tactics by the university over the course of negotiations, which began in the spring of 2021. UAW has filed at least 25 unfair labor practice claims against the university with California’s Public Employment Relations Board, and the board has issued complaints in six cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/university-of-california-strike-academic-workers-graduate-students\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. The university has denied these allegations.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How has the university responded?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In negotiations, the university has \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW#offers\">offered academic workers a $2,500 reimbursement for child care\u003c/a>, expanded parental leave, a pre-tax commuter benefit and multiyear pay increases that vary per bargaining unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23309878-provostletter\">system’s 10 chancellors (PDF)\u003c/a>, released Wednesday, UC Provost Michael T. 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[But] we talk about housing and tying wages to rental rates, that is very dangerous,” she said. “That could have an overwhelming financial impact on the university … as you know, the UC does not control rental rates for non-UC housing, and the UC can’t predict nor responsibly budget for such subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11932491 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png\" alt='A variety of smiling, mostly young, multiethnic people wearing casual clothing march in a line holding white and blue signs affixed to wooden poles that say \"UAW On Strike, Unfair Labor Practice,\" along a city sidewalk in the dappled shade of large trees.' width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-1020x630.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers form a picket line at UC Berkeley on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tying wages to rental rates could have the unintended consequence of subsidizing private landlords and companies and further exacerbating rental costs for other Californians,” she said. “So we’re mindful of all these factors as we have continued to propose fair wage increases for these employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas also emphasized that many teaching assistants are working part-time, at 20 hours per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Brown pushed back against the demand to waive out-of-state tuition for international scholars. “If we were to provide remission of out-of state supplemental tuition, non-California student employees would in effect receive a larger compensation package than California resident student employees for doing the same work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the university’s offer of multiyear pay raises includes up to 10% increases within the first year of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those raises fall far short of the increases the union is pushing for. Organizers argue their demands are essential for academic workers to earn a living wage, and would total no more than 3% of UC’s entire $44 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the money that we need to be able to address the cost of living and housing in California,” said Sweeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How have undergraduate students been affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC officials have told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participate in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some campuses, students joined in solidarity. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At UC Davis, some undergraduates appeared to have mixed feelings about the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932471/uc-undergraduate-students-divided-in-reaction-to-strike\">according to EdSource\u003c/a>, but many were supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solan Castro, a first-year undergraduate studying public health and molecular cell biology, joined the picket line on Wednesday instead of attending class. He said that even with finals coming up, he’s not worried about how the strike might affect his grades. “A lot of professors have opened up more office hours, also in solidarity with the graduate student instructors,” he said, noting that he believes graduate student teaching assistants are often key to undergraduates’ success.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is this part of a wider trend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The UC academic workers’ strike comes on the heels of a surge of high-profile labor actions and union organizing this year, both in California and across the country, as demand for workers in multiple industries has spiked. In recent months, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of labor activism, particularly among nurses and other health care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to John Logan, director of the Labor and Employment Studies department at San Francisco State University, it’s part of a groundswell of organizing in education as well. “I think it’s important to understand that this is part of a national trend that’s been happening for a number of decades now,” Logan told KQED Forum, noting that unionization began at Berkeley in the 1980s, but the union only began bargaining in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board in 2016 allowed private university graduate students to organize as well, leading to unions in recent years at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia, New York University, Brown University, Georgetown, the University of Chicago and Boston University, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re now talking about upwards of 100,000 unionized graduate students, employees throughout the country. And the issues, quite frankly, are similar,” said Logan. “I think they’re more severe in California because of the astronomical living costs and particularly the housing costs … and so [there’s a] huge gulf that exists between what the university is offering in terms of pay and other benefits and what the graduate students say is necessary for absolute basic quality of life and livable wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If over 90% of graduate student employees are paying more than 30% of their income on housing costs, it’s simply not sustainable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Negotiations are expected to continue between the UC and the union over the coming week. SFSU’s Logan said he expects the university to ultimately revise their offer in the student workers’ favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s going to be tremendous pressure from a whole variety of quarters on university administration to get serious and to resume bargaining in good faith and to come to an agreement that’s acceptable to both parties,” he said. “They’re very far apart at the moment, but they cannot operate without the labor of these people, and I don’t think they can win this dispute. I think the graduate student workers will get a significant part of what they’re asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Emma Silvers and Matthew Green contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/b>On the third day of a massive open-ended strike among tens of thousands of University of California academic employees, a UC senior leader warned that certain union demands were financially unfeasible for the university to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca class=\"link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23309878-provostletter\">letter to the system’s 10 chancellors (PDF)\u003c/a>, released Wednesday, UC Provost Michael T. Brown said, “I respect their choice” to strike, and acknowledged the “significant challenge” that California’s soaring housing costs create for students and employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said that the union demand to tie compensation to housing costs “could have overwhelming financial impacts on the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One review of the Union’s proposal predicts an annual unfunded obligation of at least several hundred million dollars, with inflationary pressure and no cap,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also pushed back against the demand to waive out-of-state tuition for international scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to provide remission of out-of state supplemental tuition, non-California student employees would in effect receive a larger compensation package than California resident student employees for doing the same work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the university is offering academic workers multiyear pay raises — including up to 10% increases within the first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that is far short of the 100% increases the union is pushing for. Organizers argue their demands are essential for academic workers to earn a living wage, and would total no more than 3% of UC’s entire $44 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the money that we need to be able to address the cost of living and housing in California,” said Neal Sweeney, president of United Auto Workers Local 5810, which represents postdoctoral instructors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic workers have long been underpaid and undervalued, he added, noting that “our work brings in about $5 billion in research grants each year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the California Labor Federation, which sanctioned the strike, called on guest speakers and elected officials to cancel scheduled events at UC campuses until a fair agreement is reached. But organizers stopped short of asking students to boycott classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 1 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers across the 10-campus system walked off the job Monday, demanding better pay and benefits in what organizers are calling the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike by researchers, postdoctoral scholars, tutors, teaching assistants and graders – including scores of workers at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – threatens to disrupt instruction across the university system, just weeks ahead of final exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At campuses across the state, picket lines went up at 8 a.m., with workers — represented by various local chapters of the United Auto Workers — insisting they need significant pay raises to afford to live in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego and Berkeley, where housing and other living costs have soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extremely low compensation — many workers make less than $24,000 a year — is leaving workers severely rent-burdened and struggling to remain in academia,” Rafael Jaime, president of United Auto Workers 2865, which represents some 19,000 academic workers involved in the strike, said earlier this month. “UC’s failure to support a diverse workforce undermines the quality of research and education across the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract talks produced “good progress” on Monday, but UC negotiators subsequently informed the union that they wouldn’t resume bargaining until Wednesday, according to Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers are really frustrated by the slow process so far,” he said while demonstrating at UCLA, where he’s a teaching assistant. “They’re willing to be out here for as long as it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/only_tanz/status/1592271003211948033\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/cola/\">Demonstrators are demanding\u003c/a> a minimum annual salary of $54,000 for graduate workers and $70,000 for postdoctoral workers, and a 14% pay bump for academic researchers. The union is also pushing UC to offer child-care subsidies, better health care for dependents, public-transit passes, better accessibility for workers with disabilities and lower tuition costs for international scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pê Feijó, a graduate student instructor in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, was among the throng of academic workers who walked off the job Monday morning. Feijó said about 75% of the $26,000 a year they earn goes toward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just and not fair. It’s completely absurd,” Feijó said. “The amount of stress and pressure that we are under is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feijo also has to pay thousands of dollars each year in nonresident fees, an extra burden that union negotiators are seeking to reduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a baby strapped to her chest holds a sign that says: 'Our working conditions = their learning conditions"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anaya Hall, a graduate student instructor at UC Berkeley, brought her baby Mazie to the picket line on the west side of campus Monday. \u003ccite>(Jean Zamora/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not just here in a symbolic demonstration,” Feijó said. “We are really intended on disrupting this university until the administration is forced to recognize how much they depend on us and our labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes amid a surge of labor actions and union organizing this year, both in California and across the country, as demand for workers in multiple industries has spiked. In recent months, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of labor activism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nurses-strike\">particularly among nurses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">other health care workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW\">UC officials said they had entered the talks with a “genuine willingness to compromise,”\u003c/a> adding that “many tentative agreements” on issues such as health and safety had been reached.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11931122,news_11801554,forum_2010101876230\"]“UC’s primary goal in these negotiations is multiyear agreements that recognize these employees’ important and highly valued contributions to UC’s teaching and research mission with fair pay, quality health and family-friendly benefits, and a supportive and respectful work environment,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also said it had offered multiyear wage increases, ranging from 4% to 26%, depending on the bargaining unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Neal Sweeney, president of UAW 5810, which represents more than 11,000 postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers, said negotiations had dragged on for more than a year, and accused UC officials of failing to bargain in good faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC has left us no choice but to escalate our campaigns,” he said, earlier this month. “Rather than coming to fair agreements, the university has engaged in a wide variety of unlawful tactics. The UAW locals at UC have been forced to file more than 20 unfair labor practices to address their refusal to provide the information we need to bargain unilateral changes to our working conditions and more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CA-Leg-Letter.pdf\">a group of 33 state lawmakers sent a letter in support of the academic workers\u003c/a>, urging UC President Michael Drake “to avert strikes by ceasing to commit unfair labor practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UC is one of the top public university systems and research institutions in the world, in no small part because of its ability to attract the most talented scholars from a wide array of backgrounds,” the letter reads. “But the UC system cannot live up to its mission and reputation if its own employees do not feel respected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participated in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People holding signs demonstrate on a sidewalk, near a UCSF bus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers demonstrate at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022, the second day of an open-ended strike among nearly 48,000 academic employees across all 10 University of California campuses. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators were out in force Monday at UC’s 10 campuses across the state, which are attended by some 300,000 students. 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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley is experiencing a 1960s flashback triggered by People’s Park, a landmark that has served as a counterculture touchstone, political stepping stone and refuge for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3-acre site’s colorful history, forged from the University of California, Berkeley’s seizure of the land in 1968, has been thrust back into the spotlight as the school renews efforts to pave over People’s Park, this time for a $312 million project that includes sorely needed housing for about 1,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11922900,news_11921415,arts_13917145\"]After a judge sided with the university in a legal scrum over the project, construction finally began August 3 — only to abruptly stop a few hours later after a swarm of protesters, who had been sparring with police, toppled fences surrounding the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay was only supposed to last a few days, but the coalition fighting the university’s plans won an appeals court stay that will prevent construction until at least October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lull hasn’t muted the contentious debate around a historic spot once hailed as “a trace of anarchist heaven on Earth” by former UC Berkeley professor Todd Gitlin and derided by former city Councilmember John DeBonis as a “hippie Disneyland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park turned into a symbol of both resistance and mayhem during a deadly 1969 confrontation known as “Bloody Thursday,” emboldening then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan to send in 3,000 National Guard troops for a two-week occupation that evoked images of war in a city that was clamoring for peace in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Mitchell, whose father was a UC Berkeley professor during the 1969 uprising, views People’s Park as a social experiment worth saving, as more cookie-cutter communities get built in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a mic in front of a university building and a sign for people's park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Park supporters rally at Sproul Hall to protest the construction of UC Berkeley student housing at the park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it,” said Mitchell, a professor of human geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. “It’s a free and open space, a place where the rules of exclusion are very different. So people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ethos has long made the park a way station for unhoused people, with scattered tent clusters and makeshift kitchens. Drug use and violence have helped spur support for the university’s development plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Atmaa Das, 28, began spending time in People’s Park not long after leaving Alabama in 2014 and found his way there again a couple weeks after workers left behind construction equipment, now splattered with obscene graffiti — part of $1.5 million in recent protest damage, the university estimated. “I came here looking for the promised land and reckon I found it,” he said on a recent morning, strumming his guitar while singing parts of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Don Mitchell, professor, Uppsala University in Sweden\"]‘People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it … so people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.’[/pullquote]University officials say they are sympathetic to both the park’s heritage and the needs of unhoused people who have lived there since another set of fences surrounding the property were removed in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and city \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/rodewayinn\">moved dozens of unhoused people into a motel\u003c/a> as part of an $8 million relocation initiative, and officials promised to \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/new-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep most of the site as open space\u003c/a>. The school also hired award-winning architect \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/history-commemoration\">Walter Hood to design a memorial\u003c/a> celebrating its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan will meet multiple interests to preserve the park, create urgently needed student housing, and provide permanent housing for unhoused and low-income individuals,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote in an email sent to university alumni and other supporters earlier this week. University spokesperson Dan Mogulof declined a request to interview Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even People’s Park supporters dispute more affordable housing is needed — the median sales price for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-priceshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-prices.\">a home near the university is $1.5 million\u003c/a>. But critics blame mismanagement for the crisis and contend the university could build on its other property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under a 2005 long-range plan, UC Berkeley estimated enrollment at 33,000 students by 2020. Instead, it had about 43,000 students that year and expects roughly 45,000 this academic year — with only 10,000 campus beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring shortage is mainly why city officials back the university’s plan, including city Councilmember Rigel Robinson, who represents the People’s Park area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a powerful symbol of resistance against government oppression, but it has since become a symbol of something else entirely: our failure as a region to respond to the housing crisis,” Robinson said. “The time has come to turn the page.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month’s protests showed that a significant part of Berkeley isn’t ready to let go, mainly because of what the park has come to symbolize since UC Berkeley seized it for $1.3 million in 1968 under eminent domain and demolished homes there. After citing a need for an intramural soccer field, the school instead let the site deteriorate into a muddy mess mostly used for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boilermaker Michael Delacour led a grassroots group to plant vegetation, turning the eyesore into a community magnet, UC Berkeley decided to fence it off on May 15, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set the stage for rebellion. At a rally outside UC Berkeley’s administration building, incoming student body President Dan Siegel urged the crowd to “take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the issues now are like 1969,” said Siegel, now a lawyer in nearby Oakland. “People’s Park is both a park and a symbol of activism that is worthy of protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infamous 1969 clash between hundreds of police, some of them dubbed “Blue Meanies,” and protesters became a flashpoint in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. During the hours-long melee, police fatally shot a man standing on a rooftop and blinded another who was struck in the face with bird shot. Dozens of protesters were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Reagan, who had vowed “to clean up the mess in Berkeley” during his victorious 1966 gubernatorial campaign, called in military troops. Before an uneasy truce was reached May 30, 1969, hundreds more were arrested, and, in another infamous moment, an Army helicopter sprayed a crowd with what authorities called tear gas but others insisted was an even more dangerous substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Reagan’s detractors still believe he deliberately deployed strong-arm tactics to establish himself as a law-and-order leader while pursuing a political agenda that led to his 1980 election as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group that is spearheading the legal fight for preservation, likens UC Berkeley’s plan to Reagan’s 1969 crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan “wanted to wipe out the social and political history of Berkeley and now the university is carrying it forward,” Smith said on August 3 while construction crews used bulldozers and buzz saws to topple most of the park’s trees, including some that predated the school’s purchase 54 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clear-cutting depressed Bertha Jones, who lived in People’s Park for several years before accepting the university’s offer to move into a nearby Rodeway Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandparents got married at one of those trees. My mom got married at one of those trees,” Jones, 43, said. “I wanted to keep the tradition going, but obviously that isn’t going to work out now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other former People’s Park inhabitants said they moved into the motel reluctantly, though they like having their own bed and bathroom. What they don’t like is not being given room keys, or being banned from leaving the premises from midnight to 6 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending most of his time in People’s Park for seven years, Eric Morales moved in early June to the Rodeway Inn with his dog, Bonita. But he will always consider People’s Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like any other park,” Morales, 54, said. “You can go to other parks and you say hi and bye, then you won’t ever see them again. But People’s Park is a community, you know? We are a family.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park turned into a symbol of both resistance and mayhem during a deadly 1969 confrontation known as “Bloody Thursday,” emboldening then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan to send in 3,000 National Guard troops for a two-week occupation that evoked images of war in a city that was clamoring for peace in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Mitchell, whose father was a UC Berkeley professor during the 1969 uprising, views People’s Park as a social experiment worth saving, as more cookie-cutter communities get built in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a mic in front of a university building and a sign for people's park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Park supporters rally at Sproul Hall to protest the construction of UC Berkeley student housing at the park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it,” said Mitchell, a professor of human geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. “It’s a free and open space, a place where the rules of exclusion are very different. So people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ethos has long made the park a way station for unhoused people, with scattered tent clusters and makeshift kitchens. Drug use and violence have helped spur support for the university’s development plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Atmaa Das, 28, began spending time in People’s Park not long after leaving Alabama in 2014 and found his way there again a couple weeks after workers left behind construction equipment, now splattered with obscene graffiti — part of $1.5 million in recent protest damage, the university estimated. “I came here looking for the promised land and reckon I found it,” he said on a recent morning, strumming his guitar while singing parts of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>University officials say they are sympathetic to both the park’s heritage and the needs of unhoused people who have lived there since another set of fences surrounding the property were removed in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and city \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/rodewayinn\">moved dozens of unhoused people into a motel\u003c/a> as part of an $8 million relocation initiative, and officials promised to \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/new-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep most of the site as open space\u003c/a>. The school also hired award-winning architect \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/history-commemoration\">Walter Hood to design a memorial\u003c/a> celebrating its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan will meet multiple interests to preserve the park, create urgently needed student housing, and provide permanent housing for unhoused and low-income individuals,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote in an email sent to university alumni and other supporters earlier this week. University spokesperson Dan Mogulof declined a request to interview Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even People’s Park supporters dispute more affordable housing is needed — the median sales price for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-priceshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-prices.\">a home near the university is $1.5 million\u003c/a>. But critics blame mismanagement for the crisis and contend the university could build on its other property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under a 2005 long-range plan, UC Berkeley estimated enrollment at 33,000 students by 2020. Instead, it had about 43,000 students that year and expects roughly 45,000 this academic year — with only 10,000 campus beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring shortage is mainly why city officials back the university’s plan, including city Councilmember Rigel Robinson, who represents the People’s Park area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a powerful symbol of resistance against government oppression, but it has since become a symbol of something else entirely: our failure as a region to respond to the housing crisis,” Robinson said. “The time has come to turn the page.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month’s protests showed that a significant part of Berkeley isn’t ready to let go, mainly because of what the park has come to symbolize since UC Berkeley seized it for $1.3 million in 1968 under eminent domain and demolished homes there. After citing a need for an intramural soccer field, the school instead let the site deteriorate into a muddy mess mostly used for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boilermaker Michael Delacour led a grassroots group to plant vegetation, turning the eyesore into a community magnet, UC Berkeley decided to fence it off on May 15, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set the stage for rebellion. At a rally outside UC Berkeley’s administration building, incoming student body President Dan Siegel urged the crowd to “take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the issues now are like 1969,” said Siegel, now a lawyer in nearby Oakland. “People’s Park is both a park and a symbol of activism that is worthy of protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infamous 1969 clash between hundreds of police, some of them dubbed “Blue Meanies,” and protesters became a flashpoint in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. During the hours-long melee, police fatally shot a man standing on a rooftop and blinded another who was struck in the face with bird shot. Dozens of protesters were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Reagan, who had vowed “to clean up the mess in Berkeley” during his victorious 1966 gubernatorial campaign, called in military troops. Before an uneasy truce was reached May 30, 1969, hundreds more were arrested, and, in another infamous moment, an Army helicopter sprayed a crowd with what authorities called tear gas but others insisted was an even more dangerous substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Reagan’s detractors still believe he deliberately deployed strong-arm tactics to establish himself as a law-and-order leader while pursuing a political agenda that led to his 1980 election as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group that is spearheading the legal fight for preservation, likens UC Berkeley’s plan to Reagan’s 1969 crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan “wanted to wipe out the social and political history of Berkeley and now the university is carrying it forward,” Smith said on August 3 while construction crews used bulldozers and buzz saws to topple most of the park’s trees, including some that predated the school’s purchase 54 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clear-cutting depressed Bertha Jones, who lived in People’s Park for several years before accepting the university’s offer to move into a nearby Rodeway Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandparents got married at one of those trees. My mom got married at one of those trees,” Jones, 43, said. “I wanted to keep the tradition going, but obviously that isn’t going to work out now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other former People’s Park inhabitants said they moved into the motel reluctantly, though they like having their own bed and bathroom. What they don’t like is not being given room keys, or being banned from leaving the premises from midnight to 6 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending most of his time in People’s Park for seven years, Eric Morales moved in early June to the Rodeway Inn with his dog, Bonita. But he will always consider People’s Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>People’s Park is one of the most famous sites of the student movement of the 1960s — battled into existence, it has been held together by activists. The current debate is whether the university should be allowed to build student housing, or whether the park should remain completely open space, a sanctuary of sorts, for people in need of help. Issues of housing, homelessness, open space and more combine for a story with many elements of quintessential Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, the university hadn’t done much with it. Volunteers had guarded the space and run programs for various groups. During the pandemic, the eastern edge of the park became a large encampment for unhoused people. In recent years, the university has tried to develop the parcel of land, after its first attempt was blocked in 1969 by protesters. Under the new plans, about 60% of the land would remain a park that the university says will honor the legacy of its creation.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Harvey Smith, member of People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group\"]‘The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest would be turned into a new development, with 1,100 housing units for students and another hundred units of supportive housing run through a local nonprofit. In the meantime, the unhoused residents of the park have been offered a roof over their heads at a converted motel. Earlier this month, the university tried to begin construction, but activists clashed with police as demolition of the trees began. Soon, construction was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a judge issued an injunction and the project has been paused, pending a new review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890205/the-battle-for-peoples-park\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke with\u003c/a>: Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley; Harvey Smith, member of People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group; and Supriya Yelimeli, housing and homelessness reporter for Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The origin and state of People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside:\u003c/strong> I was there Tuesday evening around 5 p.m., and some activists who run the People’s Park Garden were watering. There were about 10 tents there — people who are occupying the park. The People’s Park Kitchen, also run by activists, has used some of the fencing that was put around the park. There are some folks who are just hanging out there, but it still looks very different than before. There used to be groups of people who kind of just hung out in the area. Now, most of the folks who are at the park now are actively protesting for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand in the sun one has a sign that says: 'We Love People's Park'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally at People’s Park to protest the construction by UC Berkeley of student housing at the park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An abridged story of the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli: \u003c/strong>In the ’60s, alongside many other big rebellions and civil rights movements, people who lived in the city decided to take the park land and turn it into a public park. At the time, there were plans to turn it into a parking lot. But people walked into the park, they started digging and shoveling. And there was one very famous protest where around 6,000 people marched to the park when the UC tried to reclaim the land. And on that day, one person was shot and killed. That set in motion a lot of the activism and the real vigor for defending the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The UC’s vision for People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> The vision really started five years ago. UC Berkeley is facing an urgent student housing crisis and an initiative was launched with relatively modest goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals were to provide every incoming freshman with two years of university housing. But to do that, we need 8,000 new beds. Twenty percent of our students don’t even live in the city of Berkeley. Ten percent of our students report being unhoused at any given time. We need to build on every single piece of university-owned property in close proximity to the campus — People’s Park is one of those sites.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101890205\" label=\"Related Post\"]We also understood how important the park site is to members of the Berkeley community — its past, its legacy. We understood there were unhoused people who had been sleeping and gathering there in the pandemic. Instead of blithely rushing ahead, we developed a plan that acknowledges and addresses all of those various interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’re ready to and want to commemorate the park’s past and legacy. And also make sure that we’re meeting the needs and interests of unhoused people who have been using the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was nearly $5 million spent to help them relocate to the Rodeway Inn, another million dollars is being spent by the city and the campus to open a new daytime gathering center at the First Presbyterian Church, where unhoused people can receive services and food and showers, medical care, counseling and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A continuing struggle for student housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal, KQED: Why doesn’t the UC Berkeley just accept fewer students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof\u003c/strong>: There are a number of fallacies and myths around that question. First of all, the UC campuses don’t decide their own enrollment levels. Enrollment is decided by the regents in concert with the office of the president. They’re facing pressure from throughout the state … to enroll more students. The size of the system hasn’t tracked with the growing population of the state of California. In recent years, we’ve been required to take more students than we had housing for, exacerbating a preexisting crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harvey Smith, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group:\u003c/strong> I’m highly disappointed with the devolution of the UC. When I was a student, there was zero tuition. Now I think students pay about $14,000 a year for tuition plus housing costs. [\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=110635#expenses\">Editor’s note: The average in-state tuition is $14,000, and out-of-state tuition is $44,000.\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our organization is totally in favor of more student housing. I applaud the plan to provide more student housing. We’re critical of the delivery of the plan. It’s been reported that up to 10% of Berkeley students at Cal have been homeless — and it’s an urgent problem, but our feeling is that it should be addressed in an appropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wouldn’t it be easier to build in another part of the UC land holdings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cut trees on top of one another\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree branches lay cut on the ground after UC Berkeley student housing construction began at People’s Park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do the people of People’s Park want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli:\u003c/strong> I wanted to make clear that there are different groups asking for different things at the park. Defend People’s Park, which is mostly a student-run organization, wants People’s Park returned to Indigenous stewardship. They want no development at People’s Park, and they want folks who previously lived there or who got resources at the park to get permanent housing. They also want UC police defunded and for those funds to be redirected to students and staff who need services, as well as people who lived at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been talking about opposition and support … At the protests, we’ve heard from Moms for Housing, who famously reclaimed a home in Oakland and were able to live there. We have heard alignment from folks at the Wood Street encampment, Oakland. We’ve heard alignment from, you know, groups in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, other people who have been fighting for homeless rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing masks and jacket hold a plastic bag and vegetables outside near tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We do have to be respectful of homeless voices who are not represented saying that [People’s Park] is where [they get their] resources — “if I don’t have a phone or my friend doesn’t have a phone, I can go here and hear from someone who will know their whereabouts.” And these are very distinct issues from the student housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lack of hearing the voices of these folks at all because they’re hard to reach. You can’t always get them on the radio or in the newspaper or in a university press release. There are people who certainly acknowledge that living outside in the cold is not what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people who are grateful for this opportunity. And then there are folks who are more comfortable living on the streets as well because of past traumas and past terrible experiences with the institutions that surround them. I don’t want to speak for them, those voices should be heard. But it’s not binary. It never is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof:\u003c/strong> I just want to note that all of the plans that were developed in concert with the city were based on what unhoused people told us. We went out of our way to ensure their voices were heard. We had graduate students for the School of Public Policy who were in the park every day asking people about what the services and support they need and want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are, to the best of our knowledge, the only university that hired a social worker to provide care and services to connect people with services. We could not agree more that those are voices that should be heard, that have been heard in the past and need to continue to be heard going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest would be turned into a new development, with 1,100 housing units for students and another hundred units of supportive housing run through a local nonprofit. In the meantime, the unhoused residents of the park have been offered a roof over their heads at a converted motel. Earlier this month, the university tried to begin construction, but activists clashed with police as demolition of the trees began. Soon, construction was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a judge issued an injunction and the project has been paused, pending a new review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890205/the-battle-for-peoples-park\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke with\u003c/a>: Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley; Harvey Smith, member of People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group; and Supriya Yelimeli, housing and homelessness reporter for Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The origin and state of People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside:\u003c/strong> I was there Tuesday evening around 5 p.m., and some activists who run the People’s Park Garden were watering. There were about 10 tents there — people who are occupying the park. The People’s Park Kitchen, also run by activists, has used some of the fencing that was put around the park. There are some folks who are just hanging out there, but it still looks very different than before. There used to be groups of people who kind of just hung out in the area. Now, most of the folks who are at the park now are actively protesting for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand in the sun one has a sign that says: 'We Love People's Park'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally at People’s Park to protest the construction by UC Berkeley of student housing at the park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An abridged story of the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli: \u003c/strong>In the ’60s, alongside many other big rebellions and civil rights movements, people who lived in the city decided to take the park land and turn it into a public park. At the time, there were plans to turn it into a parking lot. But people walked into the park, they started digging and shoveling. And there was one very famous protest where around 6,000 people marched to the park when the UC tried to reclaim the land. And on that day, one person was shot and killed. That set in motion a lot of the activism and the real vigor for defending the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The UC’s vision for People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> The vision really started five years ago. UC Berkeley is facing an urgent student housing crisis and an initiative was launched with relatively modest goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals were to provide every incoming freshman with two years of university housing. But to do that, we need 8,000 new beds. Twenty percent of our students don’t even live in the city of Berkeley. Ten percent of our students report being unhoused at any given time. We need to build on every single piece of university-owned property in close proximity to the campus — People’s Park is one of those sites.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We also understood how important the park site is to members of the Berkeley community — its past, its legacy. We understood there were unhoused people who had been sleeping and gathering there in the pandemic. Instead of blithely rushing ahead, we developed a plan that acknowledges and addresses all of those various interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’re ready to and want to commemorate the park’s past and legacy. And also make sure that we’re meeting the needs and interests of unhoused people who have been using the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was nearly $5 million spent to help them relocate to the Rodeway Inn, another million dollars is being spent by the city and the campus to open a new daytime gathering center at the First Presbyterian Church, where unhoused people can receive services and food and showers, medical care, counseling and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A continuing struggle for student housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal, KQED: Why doesn’t the UC Berkeley just accept fewer students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof\u003c/strong>: There are a number of fallacies and myths around that question. First of all, the UC campuses don’t decide their own enrollment levels. Enrollment is decided by the regents in concert with the office of the president. They’re facing pressure from throughout the state … to enroll more students. The size of the system hasn’t tracked with the growing population of the state of California. In recent years, we’ve been required to take more students than we had housing for, exacerbating a preexisting crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harvey Smith, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group:\u003c/strong> I’m highly disappointed with the devolution of the UC. When I was a student, there was zero tuition. Now I think students pay about $14,000 a year for tuition plus housing costs. [\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=110635#expenses\">Editor’s note: The average in-state tuition is $14,000, and out-of-state tuition is $44,000.\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our organization is totally in favor of more student housing. I applaud the plan to provide more student housing. We’re critical of the delivery of the plan. It’s been reported that up to 10% of Berkeley students at Cal have been homeless — and it’s an urgent problem, but our feeling is that it should be addressed in an appropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wouldn’t it be easier to build in another part of the UC land holdings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cut trees on top of one another\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree branches lay cut on the ground after UC Berkeley student housing construction began at People’s Park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do the people of People’s Park want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli:\u003c/strong> I wanted to make clear that there are different groups asking for different things at the park. Defend People’s Park, which is mostly a student-run organization, wants People’s Park returned to Indigenous stewardship. They want no development at People’s Park, and they want folks who previously lived there or who got resources at the park to get permanent housing. They also want UC police defunded and for those funds to be redirected to students and staff who need services, as well as people who lived at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been talking about opposition and support … At the protests, we’ve heard from Moms for Housing, who famously reclaimed a home in Oakland and were able to live there. We have heard alignment from folks at the Wood Street encampment, Oakland. We’ve heard alignment from, you know, groups in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, other people who have been fighting for homeless rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing masks and jacket hold a plastic bag and vegetables outside near tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We do have to be respectful of homeless voices who are not represented saying that [People’s Park] is where [they get their] resources — “if I don’t have a phone or my friend doesn’t have a phone, I can go here and hear from someone who will know their whereabouts.” And these are very distinct issues from the student housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lack of hearing the voices of these folks at all because they’re hard to reach. You can’t always get them on the radio or in the newspaper or in a university press release. There are people who certainly acknowledge that living outside in the cold is not what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people who are grateful for this opportunity. And then there are folks who are more comfortable living on the streets as well because of past traumas and past terrible experiences with the institutions that surround them. I don’t want to speak for them, those voices should be heard. But it’s not binary. It never is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof:\u003c/strong> I just want to note that all of the plans that were developed in concert with the city were based on what unhoused people told us. We went out of our way to ensure their voices were heard. We had graduate students for the School of Public Policy who were in the park every day asking people about what the services and support they need and want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are, to the best of our knowledge, the only university that hired a social worker to provide care and services to connect people with services. We could not agree more that those are voices that should be heard, that have been heard in the past and need to continue to be heard going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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}
}
