‘Where do they expect us to go?’ Life at one Bay Area encampment before eviction [theguardian.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 5/26/221:32 PM

By Maavni Singh, Preston Gannaway/The Guardian, The Guardian, May 5, 2022

“I just don’t know where to go.”

Sarah sighed as she looked past her tent off the I-80 highway, at the edge of the San Francisco Bay.

Sarah and her partner, Kevin, both 55, have lived in the scattered encampments along this stretch of busy highway in Berkeley, California, for years now. They’ve had to pack up several times, moving from one camp to the next as authorities cleared plot after plot.

Last month, a federal judge ruled officials could remove the last remaining tents by 4 May. And Sarah, whose last name the Guardian is withholding because she could face legal barriers to housing, has had to draw on every particle of poise she possesses to keep from falling apart.

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