• Donate
  • Newsletters
  • Submit a tip
  • Shop
  • About
  • How we work
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Nosh
  • Arts
  • Business
  • City
  • Community
  • COVID
  • Crime
  • Housing
  • Neighborhoods
  • Schools
  • Obituaries
  • Opinion
  • Events
  • Latest news
  • The Oaklandside
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Subscribe to Nosh

Nosh

  • New restaurants
  • Bites
  • Nosh features

Arts

Business

City

City

COVID-19

Crime & Safety

  • Policing
  • Homicide
  • Shootings
  • Traffic Safety

Events

Housing

Neighborhoods

Schools

Obituaries

Opinion

Skip to content
Berkeleyside

Berkeleyside

Nonprofit news. Free for all, funded by readers.

  • Donate
  • Newsletters
  • Submit a tip
  • Shop
  • About
  • How we work
  • Advertise
  • Contact
DONATE
  • Nosh
  • Arts
  • Business
  • City
  • Community
  • COVID
  • Crime
  • Housing
  • Neighborhoods
  • Schools
  • Obituaries
  • Opinion
  • Events
  • Latest news
  • The Oaklandside
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Subscribe to Nosh
  • Nosh Logo (Highlight Menu)
  • Nosh

Berkeley's aggressive new wildfire plan | Rabid bat found | Last-minute camping | Get The Scene, our new arts + events newsletter

Housing Trust Fund

The Housing Trust Fund is the money the city uses to build and support affordable housing projects in Berkeley. The money can be leveraged 4-to-1 to seek outside funding. Money generally comes into the fund when developers choose not to include affordable units within their projects, or who do not include the full number of those units. Rather than building on site, they can pay a fee into the city’s Trust Fund instead.

Posted inCity

With 26 stories, McDonald’s corner could one day have Berkeley’s tallest building

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso June 08, 2022, 12:37 p.m.August 4, 2022

The project team is hoping to lock down the fifth and final tall building slot allowed downtown.

Posted inCity

Developer proposes 17-story apartment building across from UC Berkeley

Avatar photo by Nico Savidge Sept. 01, 2021, 4:58 p.m.August 4, 2022

If past attempts to raise tall apartment buildings in downtown Berkeley are any indication, the plans could prove contentious.

Posted inCity

UC Berkeley will explore moving 8-unit rent-controlled building as part of $82.6M settlement

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel July 28, 2021, 2:59 p.m.October 4, 2022

The university will also pay $920,000 into the city’s Housing Trust Fund as recompense for the structure.

Posted inCity

Berkeley wins $42 million in grants for 150 units of affordable housing

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso July 09, 2020, 4:56 p.m.August 4, 2022

Mayor Jesse Arreguín said it’s the largest amount he could recall Berkeley ever having gotten from the state for affordable housing over his 16 years serving the city.

Posted inCity

Berkeley’s most ambitious homeless housing project ever breaks ground

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso July 07, 2020, 3:40 p.m.August 4, 2022

The project also includes 89 units of affordable housing, at 50%-60% of the area median income, that will be available to the general public on a lottery basis. It is slated to open in 2022.

Posted inCity

Downtown Berkeley Harold Way deal for 18 stories, 300 units is officially over

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Jan. 17, 2020, 5:29 p.m.October 4, 2022

The city has decided not to grant developer Hill Street Realty more time to secure financing for the 18-story Berkeley Plaza project on Harold Way.

Posted inCity

Downtown Berkeley’s Harold Way saga ain’t over yet

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Jan. 09, 2020, 12:34 p.m.October 4, 2022

Efforts are afoot at City Hall to see if the 18-story, $150 million mixed-use housing complex planned on Harold Way may still, in fact, be viable — even though the developer told the city that he had scrapped the plans.

Posted inCity

Developer suddenly pulls the plug on 18-story Harold Way complex in Berkeley

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Jan. 02, 2020, 11:57 a.m.October 4, 2022

The developer behind an 18-story, nearly 300-unit project on Harold Way has scrapped those plans, putting an end to one of the biggest development battles Berkeley has seen in recent years.

Posted inCity

Downtown Berkeley high-rise Harold Way submits building permit application

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Dec. 17, 2019, 1:18 p.m.October 4, 2022

On Monday, four years after the Berkeley City Council approved plans for a new high-rise on Harold Way, the project team submitted its building permit application to the city of Berkeley.

Posted inCity

101 units at San Pablo, Hearst approved at former Berkeley Midas site

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Dec. 16, 2019, 12:58 p.m.October 4, 2022

A six-story, 101-unit project proposed in Berkeley at San Pablo and Hearst avenues won near-unanimous approval Thursday night from the zoning board.

Posted inCity

Downtown Berkeley’s Logan Park wins zoning board approval Thursday night

Avatar photo by Kevin L. Jones Oct. 25, 2019, 4:35 p.m.October 4, 2022

Logan Park, an eight-story, 204-unit mixed-use housing project slated for downtown Berkeley, is one step closer to breaking ground after the zoning board approved its use permit Thursday night.

Posted inCity

Housing pipeline: As built units and affordable ones grow, more work remains

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso July 26, 2019, 4:58 p.m.August 23, 2021

Since 2014, there have been 1,022 housing units built, across 17 projects, according to the latest “housing pipeline” report issued by the city. About 842 units, in 15 projects, are expected to be done by 2020.

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 6 Older posts
Berkeleyside

Berkeleyside

  • Arts
  • Berkeley neighborhoods
  • Business
  • City
  • Community
  • Coronavirus
  • Crime & Safety
  • Events
  • Housing & Development
  • Obituaries
  • Opinion
  • Schools

Nosh

  • All Nosh
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Coming Soon
  • Nightlife
  • Nosh Guides
  • Restaurant Closures

Info

  • Donate
  • Newsletters
  • Submit a tip
  • Shop
  • About
  • How we work
  • Advertise
  • Contact

Support

Donate to Berkeleyside and support independent local journalism.

Part of

© 2023 Cityside. All Rights Reserved. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic