housing

Politics & society

The housing crisis, explained in 101 seconds

Watch UC Berkeley’s Ben Metcalf break down the policies needed to make homes affordable again.

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Milestones

How the Terner Center for Housing Innovation shaped California’s decade of housing reform

Politics & society

Abundant California: A Berkeley initiative aims to break gridlock, meet human needs

A photo of Judy Heumann holding her two books, Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior. Judy is a woman with short brown hair who uses a wheelchair. She is wearing glasses, a bright blue shirt with pink embroidered flowers, and black pants. The book covers are yellow and red.

Campus & community

Student housing at People’s Park to be named after Judith Heumann, disability rights leader

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Who uses housing vouchers?

Ezra Klein

Berkeley Talks: Ezra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want (revisiting)

a brightly colored rendering of a paved walkway. Many people seem to be enjoying it, including a couple with a bike. There are trees of various opacities, and one has red dots that appear to be fruit. In the background, multicolored apartments can be seen as well as a basketball court and squat community building.

UC Berkeley teams nab top prizes at national affordable housing competition

A group of 14 people who are involved in Coco Auerswald's project involving young people who experienced homelessness in the research process stand in front of a screen that reads

To understand youth experiencing homelessness, this UC Berkeley professor hires them

Dense housing in San Francisco

Berkeley Talks: In 1970, one in five Americans moved every year. Now it’s one in 13. What changed?

A main entrance to xučyun ruwway graduate student housing has the Chochenyo name spelled just above the front door. The metal lettering is painted yellow.

Ceremony celebrates xučyun ruwway, UC Berkeley’s newest housing for graduate students

A black office chair on the sidewalk in front of a row of tents.

What is ‘permanent supportive housing’?: an explainer from Berkeley’s Terner Center

A view of Anchor House, a new building created just for transfer students, as seen from Oxford Street, across from the West Crescent lawn.

Introducing UC Berkeley’s Anchor House, a remarkable gift built especially for transfer students

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New Berkeley Terner Center database gives ‘road map’ for local housing reform

students throung through Sther Gate at UC Berkeley as in-person classes resume

UC Berkeley ‘dismayed’ by court ruling to delay student housing

A rendering of the apartments being built for graduate students in the city of Albany. It also shows a bus and a bus stop outside the complex.

Construction to begin on below-market apartments that will triple graduate student housing capacity

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Back to school, back together