Berkeley to open municipally-owned homeless encampment


The Berkeley City Council has voted to create a new city-run homeless encampment to help provide a safe and clean place for some of the city's unhoused residents to live temporarily. 

According to a report from Curbed, the measure was supported by a majority of the City Councilmembers and will bring wind-resistant tents, bathroom facilities, and trash collection services to a yet-to-be-determined city-owned site. The services are set to be administered by city employees and is billed as a "stopgap" measure to help establish a certain level of cleanliness and safety for these types of camps while other permanent and transitional housing facilities get under way across the city. 

According to the report, the temporary facility would be able to accommodate 50 residents for "less than a year." 

The nearby city of Modesto launched a similar effort in 2019 that contains roughly 150 tents located underneath a bridge in the city, The Modesto Bee reports. The facility there is operated by a ...

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