Alejandro Soto-Vigil

The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board met virtually Thursday to discuss its 2020-21 fiscal year budget, ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and a possible influx of evictions.

Starting May 29, candidates running for local office in the Nov. 3 election were able to begin collecting signatures to offset filing fees, but COVID-19 has disrupted parts of the electoral process.

As another wildfire season looms over the Bay Area, the local homeless population remains uncertain of what services will be offered to them.

This midterm election season, many Berkeley City Council candidates and city officials made contributions to other candidates’ campaigns, according to documents obtained through NetFile.

A golden duplex is a two-unit property that is exempt from rent control after an owner lived on-site in 1979 and an owner currently lives on-site.

Judy Hunt, a former Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board commissioner, called for Commissioner Leah Simon-Weisberg to step down amid talks regarding the repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act at a board meeting Monday.

Berkeley will temporarily offer housing for hurricane victims at below-market rents because of a motion passed by the Rent Stabilization Board on Monday.

Christina Murphy, Alejandro Soto-Vigil, Leah Simon-Weisberg and Igor Tregub won all four seats for Berkeley’s Rent Stabilization Board, knocking out incumbent Judy Hunt and challenger Nathan Wollman who ran together as part of the FAIR Berkeley slate.

The struggle for affordable housing in Berkeley affects students and families alike, and this year, all six candidates running for the four open seats on the Rent Stabilization Board aim to make living in Berkeley a little easier.

A political action committee backed by three unions has raised $24,000 this year for eight candidates in the upcoming Berkeley elections, according to an expenditure report filed Thursday.