Like throwing darts at a map
One of the problems international students face when they come to study in America is that they usually do not get a chance to check out the campus before arriving. Read More…
City struggles with vacancy decontrol
Rent control, a blessing for tenants and a curse for landlords, restricts apartment unit price increases for buildings built prior to the mid-1980s and has remained the subject of contentious debate for decades. Read More…
Thumb Wars: The Great Divide
Is Northside or Southside a better place to live in?
Team Northside The immediate response for many people when faced with Northside as a living option is that it’s too far from everything else, i.e. Southside. I’ll admit that was my original stance. But after living in the nether region north of campus for the past nine months, I’ve come Read More…
Desperation overrules reason
In retrospect, these irregularities should have been the first warning signs. But desperation prevailed, and we signed and returned the document as quickly as we could, eager to end our protracted search for next year’s home. Read More…
Seismic safety worries city
More than seven years ago, Berkeley enacted the Soft Story Ordinance to mitigate the dangers of buildings with structurally unsupportive ground levels. Hundreds of Berkeley properties meet the city’s soft-story definition — a wood-frame structure with five or more units and a ground level containing large openings like storefronts, garages or tuck-under parking. Read More…
Ode to Southside
Reasons I love Southside collide with reasons my parents hate Berkeley, and that’s pretty dope, man. Read More…