People’s Park student housing remains on schedule as UC Berkeley enrollment grows

BERKELEY’S PEOPLE’S PARK, long a flash point of political and community activism, has been barricaded by stacked shipping containers for more than a year — but construction on UC Berkeley’s student housing project on the site is moving ahead.

The project, which aims to ease the student housing crunch, will provide more than 1,100 beds for undergraduates. A separate building with supportive housing for 100 unhoused people will eventually be built adjacent to the student housing.