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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.

“Every time a tenant moves out, the landlords can raise the rent or whatever they want,” Berkeley’s Rent Stabilization Board chair Leah Simon-Weisberg said. “Ever since then, it just goes up and up.”

As the tenants face challenges with paying rent amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Californians will be voting on Proposition 21, a measure that would allow local governments to expand rent control and limit price hikes between tenants.

Berkeley Home Match is looking to house at least 100 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in need of housing with UC Berkeley retirees.

A controversial proposal for a residential development in northwest Berkeley will be sent back to the city Zoning Adjustments Board for consideration after Berkeley City Council members sided with a community appeal against the project at Tuesday evening’s regular meeting.

A Haas Institute policy brief released Sept. 19 points to rent control as one essential solution to California’s housing affordability crisis.

At a special City Council meeting Tuesday, government officials and Berkeley residents voiced concerns over a Housing Action Plan, which aims to help mitigate the housing crisis within Berkeley.

Nanci Armstrong-Temple filed her intent to run for the District 2 Berkeley City Council seat last Monday.