To no one’s surprise, the city of Berkeley swept the Eighth and Harrison streets encampment last week, evicting roughly 40 residents. If the city’s goal is to dilute the visibility of homelessness by scattering a tight-knit community built over years of interdependency, it has succeeded. But history will inevitably repeat itself: Encampments will continue to pop up, and the city will have to pay, again and again, the financial and human toll of displacement. So we on the Editorial Board can only ask: Now what? Read more through the link in bio. ✍️: The Editorial Board 📸: Mina Lavapies . . . #ucberkeley #dailycal #berkeley #encampment #harrison