Residents of a large Oakland homeless encampment being targeted with eviction used fencing materials and debris to prevent authorities from clearing the property, city officials said this week.

Advocates for the residents of the Wood Street homeless encampment blocked police and city workers from entering the camp Wednesday, some pressing their bodies against the fence while others dismantled and climbed on top of and underneath city equipment to stop the work near Wood and 20th streets. Two people were arrested.

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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.