Talk:Berkeley, California/Archive 3

Adding to Demographics Section "Homelessness"

Hello All,

I am thinking of adding more information to the demographics section of this article, specifically under the Homelessness component. I have attached my paragraph below please feel free to leave me comments:

In 2015, an estimated 834-1200 people were homeless in Berkeley. In that same year, rent in Alameda County increased by 25% while the average household income only grew by 5%. This disparity not only contributes to the growing homeless population in Berkeley, but also presents an increased need for more affordable housing in the greater East Bay. With the political activism of the UC, Berkeley has historically been vocal about the housing crisis that affects students and locals alike. An example of these efforts to create and maintain space for those who cannot fight for themselves lies in the movement to preserve People's Park as a place for the homeless population to call its own instead of destroying it to make room for more student housing in the area.

The efforts made by the community to create and maintain space for the homeless population in Berkeley did not stop there. With the history of homelessness and lack of affordable housing, there has been masses of organizations opening up with the sole mission to help this vulnerable population with not only housing assistance, but other symptoms that derive from homelessness. These organizations have stemmed from church groups, non-profits, even the UC. One of the many UC Berkeley student run programs that focuses on assisting the homeless is Suitcase Clinic. Suitcase Clinic was created in the late 1980’s by undergraduate and graduate level students who wanted to provide direct services to those who were affected by the broken record of the housing crisis in Berkeley. Services provided by students have altered over the years to cater to the homeless population needs, which have included health education, foot-washing, child care, and a hot meal.

Despite the high demand for housing, there is not enough room to build these structures in the Bay Area and especially in Berkeley. Whatever new units are constructed must abide by "rental control" laws, which tend to favor those who can afford and are willing to pay the high rent. This marginalizes those at a lower income level and increases their risk of becoming homeless due to an inability to access affordable housing. Katlcruz (talk) 08:40, 9 November 2017 (UTC)Katlcruz (talk) 08:45, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

References

You say you want to add a paragraph, but you seem to have three paragraphs of text. What exactly are you proposing to add, just the first paragraph? Dhtwiki (talk) 23:48, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, yes sorry it took me a while to respond back! Actually going to take Homeless out of Demographics and make it is own section where it will have a "General History" component and then how those historical factors affected the homeless population in Berkeley. Katlcruz (talk) 21:56, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Berkeley's east-west line

I corrected an error in the page, where it said that the Golden Gate is "due west" of Berkeley. "Due west" means at 270 degrees on the compass. Due west of Berkeley is Tiburon and Muir Beach. The Golden Gate is due west of Berkeley's mother city, Oakland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faris Malik (talk • contribs) 16:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Moving Information from this page to another page

Hello, I have a proposal to make. I want to move the information about Homelessness in Berkeley to the Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area page and just leave shorter summaries and a link to the other page. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baskoro.alexander (talk • contribs) 17:01, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

"University of California" vs. "University of California, Berkeley"

In the article, it refers multiple times to the "University of California", meaning Berkeley. I know that, historically, the university was referred to as the University of California, but it hasn't been called that for almost 60 years. Some people still refer to Berkeley as the University of California, which may be fine in normal conversation, but it is ambiguous. I suggest that we replace most mentions of the "University of California" with "University of California, Berkeley" or "University of California at Berkeley", because it is unambiguous as to what it is referring to.

I do acknowledge that the name does pop up a lot in this article, so it may be useful to abbreviate it slightly for the sake of conciseness. {{u|Rey_grschel}} {Talk} 15:35, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

You seem to be preoccupied with the (mistaken) idea that UCB is somehow distinct from UC. It's not. UCB is part of UC. To keep repeating "University of California, Berkeley" (as in "With an economy dominated by the University of California, Berkeley...") in an article on Berkeley is silly. EEng 20:06, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

History

Under Early History, there needs to be a citation for: "Other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek." Thanks! Srh2020 (talk) 19:50, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

I've placed a citation needed template on the article. Dhtwiki (talk) 06:15, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

I came across an article about this in the Berkeley Gazette while doing other research. Since it wasn't the point of my research, I didn't note the exact date. Maybe someone who sees this who has access to one of the commercial newspaper archives might find it using whatever search feature they include. I recall that the property was on Kittridge and near/at the old Red Cross building, between Oxford and Shattuck. Another alternative---someone in the Anthropology Dept at UC might know something about this. Tmangray (talk) 06:12, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

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I find it difficult to understand how the election of Ron Dellums is not mentioned in the "Political" subsection, whereas Alice Waters is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:642:4A00:D420:1060:B72D:2136:17DB (talk) 01:40, 18 October 2020 (UTC)