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Editorial: People s Park protests aside, the people need housing

Editorial: People s Park protests aside, the people need housing Chronicle Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail A plan to build housing on the site of Berkeley’s People’s Park has some people upset.Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle UC Berkeley plans to build desperately needed housing for students and formerly homeless residents on the hallowed ground of People’s Park, and some people are upset. Protesters have camped in the park a few blocks from campus and taken down fences put up in preparation for constructing dorms for 1,200 and supportive housing for 150. Longtime residents and activists are wrinkling their noses and worry that a 17-story development is “completely out of scale for the neighborhood.”

People s Park is for the people : UC Berkeley plan for housing stirs old and new tensions

Skip to main content People s Park is for the people : UC Berkeley plan for housing stirs old and new tensions FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 UC Berkeley plans to construct a building of up to 17 stories for student housing on the site of People’s Park, long a refuge for homeless people. A second building would have 150 beds for supportive housing.Noah Berger / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Chris Faries smokes outside his tent in People’s Park. Faries, 53, first lived in the park when he was 19 and returned there over the summer.Noah Berger / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less

Bay Briefing: The last stand of S F Chinatown s storied banquet halls

Bay Briefing: The last stand of S.F. Chinatown s storied banquet halls FacebookTwitterEmail Bill Lee, shown with daughter Kathy Lee, owns the Far East Cafe, one of two remaining banquet halls in Chinatown.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, Feb. 16, and Michelin-star dining is still available for takeout you’ll just need to brush up on your plating skills. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. More than a restaurant For decades, Chinatown’s banquet halls have hosted celebrations, reinforced community and offered jobs to recent immigrants. But a Chinatown banquet is not just a party with a parade of family-style dishes. For a community that has endured segregation, racist immigration exclusion that kept families apart and threats of displacement, banquets are loud, bountiful, collective affirmations of community resilience.

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