More than 1,400 housing units are currently in development in downtown Berkeley, with demolition preparations on one of the first big projects getting under way this week. There are eight projects, ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) When they first moved from their semi-rural hometown, Rico Marisol found the bustle of Berkeley stress-inducing. In ...

Progress in city halls and the state Capitol can be slow. But once reform takes hold, transformation can come fast.

UC Berkeley’s proposal to develop housing at People’s Park dodged another bullet Friday — more than a half-century after a similar plan sparked a violent clash that established People’s Park as a ...

The Berkeley Food & Housing Project, or BFHP, is developing a project that will provide affordable housing and free meals to Berkeley’s low-income and homeless communities. Named the Hope Center, the ...

Housing advocates across the country have sought to address the shortage of affordable homes by replacing decades-old single-family zoning with policies that upzone for greater urban density. Despite ...

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BERKELEY – Developers who have been trying, and failing, for five years to get approval to build hundreds of housing units on a parking lot here went over city officials’ heads on Thursday – making ...

For nearly 50 years, the University of California and Berkeley activists have been locked in conflict over one of the state’s most contested pieces of land. The standoff started in 1969, when hundreds ...