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Homeless Protest on City Hall Steps Forced to Move Again

Carol Denney
Tuesday November 08, 2016 - 12:14:00 AM
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The tent city evicted from Adeline and Fairview last Friday which reassembled on Berkeley's City Hall steps was evicted again Monday morning and reconvened about 100 feet away at the grassy corner of Milvia and Allston.
Carol Denney
The tent city evicted from Adeline and Fairview last Friday which reassembled on Berkeley's City Hall steps was evicted again Monday morning and reconvened about 100 feet away at the grassy corner of Milvia and Allston.
Dozens of Berkeley police stood by Monday morning after forcing the eviction; police costs for dismantling tent cities are approximately half the budget Berkeley spends on homelessness.
Carol Denney
Dozens of Berkeley police stood by Monday morning after forcing the eviction; police costs for dismantling tent cities are approximately half the budget Berkeley spends on homelessness.

Monday morning, November 7, 2016, dozens of Berkeley police converged on the Berkeley City Hall steps to inform the people sleeping there after their eviction from the tent city at Adeline and Fairview that according to the city they were obligated to move yet again. 

The group cooperated, moving their tents, signs, and belongings about a hundred feet away to the grassy corner of Milvia and Allston at the corner of Martin Luther King Civic Center Park. About a dozen tents and two dozen people continued a vigil in protest of the lack of housing for people with nowhere to go. Supportive citizens continue to drop off food and supplies to support the protest. Many of the protesters participated in a city subcommittee meeting just ten days ago requesting a sanctioned, legal place to go, which the city has turned down.