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The Housing Choice Voucher Program, or Section 8, is the largest affordable housing program in the United States to date, but this year, only 2,000 Section 8 vouchers will be granted to residents in Berkeley even though over 20,000 residents applied.

All Souls Episcopal Parish, or ASEP, and Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, or SAHA, broke ground Wednesday on Jordan Court for a project that will build 34 affordable homes for seniors in Berkeley.

After 30 years of following Berkeley elections and waiting for successful rent policies to be implemented, Pawel Moldenhawer is running for Berkeley’s rent board and taking his sister-in-law’s advice: “Stop complaining and do something.”

Two separate lawsuits were filed against Berkeley Housing Authority on Monday for alleged housing law violations.

Berkeley City Council approved the 2017 Berkeley Bicycle Plan and a proposed development at 2902 Adeline St. at its Tuesday regular meeting.

Stretching across the wall in Monica Ferguson’s entryway is an eight-foot hole. The hole has been a problem in Ferguson’s house since she first moved there in 2002, and her landlord had repaired it several times. At the first signs of rain last fall, Ferguson said the paint peeled back, reopening the hole and revealing 10 years of wood rot. This time, her landlord didn’t repair it.

About 400 students, campus faculty and community members filled the International House’s Chevron Auditorium on Thursday afternoon to hear U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro speak on affordable housing, homelessness and his political career.

Mayor Tom Bates announced Tuesday his search for a new commissioner for the Berkeley Housing Authority, an independent agency that administers low-income housing.