Housing

Eliciting reactions from local groups and Berkeley City Council members, SB 9, a bill currently standing before the California State Assembly, has become a point of contention between both parties.

I knew very little about my new roommate Emma. We assumed one Zoom call was sufficient to decide to spend the next five months living together in a pandemic.

Rats are basically living rent free in your head — and maybe your house, too. Here are the relatable stages of thinking there are rats in your walls.

Not only would revenue from this tax raise be an important lifeline, but it could put an end to a profoundly inequitable part of California’s tax policy.

To understand housing in Berkeley, one must start with single-family zoning — Berkeley doesn’t just participate in this racist policy, we helped invent it.

The city of Berkeley and BART are moving to rezone areas around the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations for housing development, and in effect implementing state law AB 2923, which requires changes to zoning requirements in areas surrounding BART stations.

In response to UC Berkeley’s housing crisis, Oski and his team have unveiled a new plan to house students. Citing the nearly infinite ways to get lost in Dwinelle Hall, Oski said this meant “there is nearly infinite space in Dwinelle, which is the perfect solution to the lack of student housing.”