Judge orders Berkeley to submit plan to shelter homeless over winter
BERKELEY — Despite receiving 72-hour eviction notices, some residents of an encampment on BART property along Adeline Street were upbeat Wednesday after a judge ordered the city to submit a practical plan for sheltering its homeless population during the coming winter.
“Do not simply recite the programs the City purports to offer, for they are admittedly insufficient,” the order by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, delivered Wednesday, reads in part. “Submit a plan that will shelter substantially all of Berkeley’s homeless.”
The city is supposed to submit the plan by noon Nov. 28. The city attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Earlier on Wednesday, BART posted trespass notices, giving occupants 72 hours to take their belongings and move out of the First They Came for the Homeless Camp, also known as HERE/THERE, along Adeline Street on the west side of the BART tracks about a half-mile south of the Ashby station.
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