Update: A look at the progress of construction behind the wall of containers at People’s Park

After years of protests, pushback and delays, construction began this year on a UC Berkeley student housing project that will house 1,100 undergraduate students and 100 formerly homeless Berkeley residents. Construction began this June and has moved along as planned, university officials said in November. From the street view, all one may see is a towering wall made of shipping containers surrounding the 2.8-acre lot known as People’s Park, with a crane looming overhead.

On the inside,...