Matthew Lewis

To prevent delays in building urban housing, Assembly Bill 1633, or AB 1633, would strengthen the ability of a project to progress upon completion of an Environmental Impact Review, or EIR, required by the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. 

To prevent speeding, Berkeley residents have taken pedestrian safety into their own hands by constructing and installing self-made barriers throughout residential streets.

The California Association of Realtors, or CAR, formally apologized for historically supporting exclusionary housing practices, including redlining and the overturning of California’s first fair housing law.

Berkeley, a city that is no stranger to community organizing, is home to a diverse array of unions representing everyone from tenants and student researchers to campus librarians and lecturers.

Berkeley City Council members agreed to build affordable housing, remove construction height limits and address exclusionary zoning.

Berkeley City Council’s passage of an ordinance that limits the development of accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, and junior accessory dwelling units, or JADUs, in the Berkeley Hills, may allegedly be in violation of state law.

Berkeley City Council recently approved a $53 million investment in building affordable housing around the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations.

During a short ASUC general meeting Wednesday, ASUC officials and meeting attendees discussed hotel prices in the Berkeley area, plans for the fall semester and Graduate Assembly restructuring plans.

When a Berkeley tenant’s roommate, a student at UC Berkeley, left the city a month before the pandemic unfolded, the tenant decided to renew the lease on their rent-controlled apartment. The tenant said they thought they could find another roommate, and they reckoned it would be hard to find a cheaper place to live.

About two million California residents were behind on rent payments in August, a UC Berkeley study by campus professor Carolina Reid estimated.