UC Berkeley’s proposal for that land includes 1,100 university students and 125 homeless residents within two 12- and six-story dorm buildings.
A drone view of People’s Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. UC Berkeley has surrounded the park with shipping containers and hired full-time security to keep people out while waiting for court approval to build student housing there. The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a case that blocked a controversial UC Berkeley housing project proposed at People’s Park — wading into a battle over 2.
Shortly after that decision was published last year, Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof said the university was “dismayed” by the decision and planned to ask the California Supreme Court to overturn it. The attorney for Make UC a Good Neighbor, the group that sued to block the housing, could not immediately be reached for comment.
It wasn’t until 2021 that the university approved its current plan to develop the site into housing for more than 1,000 students and up to 100 units for unhoused residents. Prior to that announcement, the historic open space located just off Telegraph Avenue, three blocks south of campus, for years unofficially served as an outdoor home for a number of unhoused people in the area.
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