Forty-two people living in People’s Park will receive temporary housing this spring at a hotel through a partnership between the University of California at Berkeley, the city of Berkeley and some nonprofits, the groups announced recently.

The temporary housing at the Rodeway Inn will be available for 18 months and every effort will be made to get each person into permanent housing before the 18 months is up, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.