Friends of Adeline

A vocal crowd of about 60 people gathered in Berkeley Unified School District’s boardroom for a controversial Berkeley City Council meeting Tuesday night to discuss restorative justice practices for a housing instability incident, among other things.

Longtime South Berkeley resident Leonard Powell was able to return to his home May 28 once he was able to pay for the necessary renovations to meet health and safety codes with the help of the community, according to a post by South Berkeley resident group Friends of Adeline.

Friends of Adeline, a South Berkeley neighborhood organization, started a GoFundMe page to raise funds for retired Berkeley resident Leonard Powell in order to help him regain access to his home.

Berkeley is a divided city — split between those who benefit from environmental degradation and those who pay for it. Those who pay are predominantly low-income people of color.

Removing Black community members from their homes as a result of gentrification is not a solution to a problem. It’s a problem itself.

Legal counsels representing housing advocates and the city of Berkeley met to discuss an ongoing lawsuit over a mixed-use development project on Adeline Street.

A new public-use, disabled-accessible, portable bathroom was installed in a city parking lot near Alcatraz Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way on Friday after the city received pressure from a nearby homeless encampment organized by the advocacy group First They Came for the Homeless, along with local neighborhood residents and merchants.

The 2902 Adeline Street Neighbors, an unincorporated nonprofit neighborhood association to protect low-income housing, is suing the city of Berkeley over a mixed-use construction project at its namesake address.

City Council authorized $300,000 for the next two fiscal years to the Rent Stabilization Board and approved urgency items related to public bathrooms.

Elisa Cooper, an activist and resident of South Berkeley, died unexpectedly in her home last June. She was 47.