Berkeley Food and Housing Project

EASING AND ENDING
THE CRISIS OF HOMELESSNESS
IN OUR COMMUNITIES

Berkeley Food & Housing Project (BFHP) has been a provider of homeless services since 1970. We now serve the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, San Joaquin, Sacramento, and Amador. We believe that everyone has a basic right to food, housing, and stability, and we work one-on-one with our clients to help them move toward independence and into safe and affordable housing as quickly as possible.

GET HELP

If you are Homeless, please call:
211
This phone line is open 24/7.
Tell them you are homeless and looking for help

If you are a homeless veterans call:
1-888-479-1926 (Alameda County)
1-855-862-1804 (Solano County)
1-925-957-6042 (Contra Costa County)
1-833-255-4899 (Sacramento, San Joaquin, & Amador Counties)

GET INVOLVED

Be Part of the Solution—help us end the crisis
of homelessness in our community.

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Meet the millennial mayor of Berkeley, who changed his mind on the housing crisis. ‘I can’t sit back and see more people being priced out of my city.’

The story of housing in Berkeley, California, is one of retribution.

The city was the first in the US to enact single-family residential zoning, an explicitly racist type of legislation that restricted each housing lot to one unit. The 1916 vote sparked a wave of similar zoning laws across the country. More than a century later, the status quo is changing. Those flawed zoning practices of old are just now starting to get tossed out, thanks in part to Berkeley’s 37-year-old mayor Jesse Arreguín.

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