The protesters want transient housing for homeless people, not for more UC Berkeley students. If you haven't seen them, Berkeley has some world-class homeless encampments. You can get some idea of the situation here: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/09/02/berkeleys-biggest-ho...
Suffice it to say there are a lot of homeless people in CA and there are activists who want to improve their condition. Whether people's park is an appropriate location to provide transient housing is a controversial issue.
Generally the trend among NIMBYs is "we want housing, but we don't want it here, specifically". So they will be 100% favor of housing in the abstract, but as soon as someone tries to build some, there will always be some reason why that particular housing is a bad idea.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 30.0 ms ] threadSuffice it to say there are a lot of homeless people in CA and there are activists who want to improve their condition. Whether people's park is an appropriate location to provide transient housing is a controversial issue.