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People's Park in Berkeley, California, is a former park and a plot of land that is owned by the University of California, Berkeley. Located east of Telegraph Avenue and bound by Haste and Bowditch Streets and Dwight Way, People's Park was a symbol during the radical political activism of the late 1960s.
In 2018, the university published a plan to build 1,100 new units of student housing and 125 units of supportive housing for homeless people on the site, but supporters of the park have delayed those plans through opposition including protests, lawsuits, alleged sabotage of construction equipment, and overnight occupations of the site. (Full article...)