Supriya Yelimeli

Berkeley

Reporter and Writer at Freelance

reporter | formerly @Berkeleyside & @citysideguild 🫡 | from fremont, ca 🦝

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Supriya Yelimeli and Pablo Circa

1 month ago | thestreetspirit.org | Supriya Yelimeli

Supriya Yelimeli is a journalist and writer based in Oakland, CA. Her reporting has focused on homelessness, politics, and activism. Pablo Circa is a photographer based in Oakland, CA. His work captures the resilience, determination, and spirit of Black culture.
Sweeps without housing offers now allowed at some Berkeley encampments

Oct 5, 2024 | thestreetspirit.org | Supriya Yelimeli |Bradley M. Penner

Berkeley can now sweep some homeless encampments without offering residents alternate housing if city officials determine that the encampment is a hazard or public nuisance, based on a new policy the Berkeley City Council approved in September.
Ximena Natera

Aug 23, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Ximena Natera |Supriya Yelimeli |Ally Markovich |Tovin Lapan

Posted inSchools We photographed move-in day as cars crowded the streets around campus, with families unloading boxes filled with clothes, personal items, backpacks, snacks and school supplies.
City Council will consider allowing taller, denser housing throughout Berkeley

Jul 23, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Supriya Yelimeli

The Berkeley City Council will consider a proposal Tuesday that would make it easier to build denser housing all of the city’s neighborhoods, taking another step toward implementing its precedent-setting 2021 move to ban single-family zoning in the city. It’s part of a continued push to shape the future of housing in Berkeley, which includes a goal of 9,000 new homes by 2031 to meet state requirements.
Former Councilmember Max Anderson championed South Berkeley, racial equity

Jul 22, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Supriya Yelimeli

Max Anderson, a Berkeley councilmember for 12 years and lifelong civil rights activist, died of natural causes on July 5 in his South Berkeley home. He was 79. Born in Decatur, Illinois, on Dec. 12, 1944, Anderson’s life spanned a wide range of careers and foundational experiences before he arrived in Berkeley with his wife, Linda Olivenbaum, and daughter, Marisha, in the summer of 1985. Anderson was sent to the Vietnam War when he was 18 years old after enlisting as a U.S. Marine.
Tearing down affordable housing in Berkeley to build new? You have to replace it

Jul 17, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Supriya Yelimeli

After five years of negotiation and planning, the Berkeley City Council has tightened the rules for anyone who tears down residential buildings, requiring that all rental units, affordable and otherwise, be replaced with the same number of dwellings when a new structure is erected. Changes to the city’s demolition ordinance, approved last week, are meant to bring the city into compliance with a state law aimed at forcing cities to preserve housing stock, while also encouraging new development.
Report: Berkeley needs $750M over 10 years to battle homeless crisis

Jul 11, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Supriya Yelimeli

Berkeley’s homelessness team says the city will need $750 million over the next ten years to ensure that the number of people who are unhoused does not increase locally — and make more permanent housing available for people who need support. The team, led by Deputy City Manager Peter Radu, presented the report on Berkeley’s future needs and the effectiveness of existing services to the City Council on Tuesday.
Berkeley homeowners confused by incorrect rent board bills

Jul 5, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Supriya Yelimeli

Stefano Marchesini, a North Berkeley resident, received a surprising bill from the Rent Stablization Board this year indicating he owed $746 in rent registry payments. But he says his home has never been rented out, and he currently lives at the property. The Berkeley Property Owner’s Association said it received dozens of phone calls this year from property owners like Marchesini who were billed incorrectly.
Berkeley Hills under Red Flag Warning starting late Monday night

Jul 2, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Supriya Yelimeli |Zac Farber

Update, Tuesday, July 2: A Red Flag Warning of wildfire danger issued Monday for the top of the Berkeley Hills has been extended through 5 a.m. on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Tilden Regional Park and other parts of the Berkeley and Oakland Hills are included in the warning, though the warning does not reach down into the city limits of Berkeley, NWS meteorologist Nicole Sarment said Tuesday.
Berkeley Hills under 24-hour Red Flag Warning starting late Monday night

Jul 1, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Supriya Yelimeli

The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for the Berkeley Hills from 11 p.m. Monday to 11 p.m. Tuesday because of gusty winds and an extreme risk of wildfires.

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22 Jan 25

saw something unusual in the sky tonight over Oakland -- anyone else? just a row of moving, star-like light that eventually faded :o https://t.co/YRek0G4uni

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15 Jan 25

RT @AdamLMahoney: After losing their home in the Altadena fires, Fred Daniels’ family faces a cruel reality: no insurance, rising rents, an…

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10 Jan 25

RT @AdamLMahoney: Throughout Los Angeles, ash, smoke, wind & flames are rewriting the landscape & although less publicized, Black history.…

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