2024
"‘I was just shocked’: City concerned about run-down Berkeley student housing co-ops"
The four-story, 118-year-old residence has water stains on the walls from leaks. A sundeck sags precariously above a room with asbestos in the ceiling and a pantry littered with rodent traps. A storage closet sits nearly empty, its emergency supplies never replaced after an overflowing bathroom destroyed them in 2022. And a mold test kit covered in brown fungus perched for months on a downstairs windowsill.
...More"People’s Park Foes to Press on with Suit"
UC Berkeley has more than 45,000 students and has forecast adding 8,500 more in the next 12 years …
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"San Francisco’s brand is on life support. City leaders lack courage to act"
If it’s not dead already, San Francisco’s brand is clearly on life support. It happened because officials allowed 4,400 people to destroy it. That’s the number of unsheltered people in the city’s official 2022 point-in-time count, and they have essentially held the city’s reputation hostage.
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