Berkeley Neighbors for Housing and Climate Action

meetup at 10 am today!

Whomst amongst us would have predicted the city celebrating this back in peak Housing Twitter days?

Reminder: get together this Saturday!

We agree: housing and climate action are the same.

Save the date for our next social event - with CMs @brentblackaby.bsky.social and Humbert!

And if you’re not already on it - join our mailing list: bnhca.org/index.html#j...

A housing opposing homeowner just unironically said “Fight the power”

“California has failed its young people… 1000 people across 3 districts is very modest.”

“I just moved to the Elmwood from Paris France and really want to maintain the small town feel of College Ave… I grew up in Evanston and lived in Cambridge and the West Village.”

My dude we also need housing for people who aren’t like you.

another speaker: “I’m a 27 year Berkeley teacher and my kids can’t afford to live here. We need maximum density!”

Another speaker: “I’m a small landlord… we shouldn’t build… rents are dropping and absorption is slowing.”

The first speaker at the Planning Commission is Zelda Bronstein.

Reminder - important meeting tonight!

There’s an important in-person event on Wednesday!

Agenda here: berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...

Back in 2022 we endorsed Measure M, the city vacancy tax, specifically because of the “pernicious” way that Prop 13 allows landlords to hold on to vacant properties. We’re glad to see it having an impact!

Just a reminder that it’s REALLY important to make your voice heard at the workshops this week!

9-story housing next to Cheese Board? Berkeley could OK taller buildings on 3 popular streets In a push to bring more housing to wealthy neighborhoods, Berkeley is looking to raise height limits for new buildings.

Credit to @berkeleyside.org for this informative story!

These are workshops:
~30 minutes of presentation (with no Q&A)

followed by poster board input stations (post it note questions / comments)

The first one (North Shattuck) was well structured - but we need to make sure all views are represented!

You can register here for these in-person sessions: lu.ma/berkeleycorr...

Berkeley Housers! There are two critical workshops this week!

Starting now!

Reminder! We are hosting a meeting TODAY AT 5 PM with the City planners leading the commercial district upzoning. Here’s the Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8749574950...

Yes - sorry about that.

Btw the screenshot here has a typo - this Thursday is August 14 not August 27!

Hello Berkeley Housekeeters!

We’re hosting an info session / discussion with the City planners working on the commercial corridor upzoning.

This Thursday, 5 pm!

Zoom link here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8749574950...

A bunch of east bay for everyone members cheering at a beer garden

Celebrating Berkeley's Middle Housing upzoning win. 🎉 #berkmtg

Really good to see CM O’Keefe working this. We endorsed her opponent primarily on street policy but liked what O’Keefe said on housing. And here she’s walking the walk.

Apartment Property Managers in Opposition to Apartments

BTW fantastic turnout guys! Absolutely fantastic! Four years of hard work paying off for Middle Housing! Unfathomable. I'll be commenting over Zoom! #berkmtg

theres an obvious age divide at the middle housing at #berkmtg and a parent came in to oppose ending single-family zoning and then their yimby son came in and said "Im here to refute my parents" lmao

A number of speakers have quoted a median home price of $1.7m. But that’s the median for all home types - the median for single family homes was $1.8m in May…