• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Berkeley Food and Housing Project

Housing and food services

  • About
    • Who We Are
    • History
    • Finances
    • FAQs
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact
  • Services
    • Outreach
    • Shelter
    • Transitional Housing
    • Rapid Re-Housing
    • Permanent Supportive Housing
    • Food
    • Vocational
    • Real Estate Development
      • The Hope Center
      • Rio Vista
  • Get involved
    • Donate
    • Food Campaign
    • Other ways to give
    • In-kind Donations
    • Legacy Giving
    • Volunteer
  • News
    • What’s New
    • BFHP in the News
    • Strategic Plan
  • Careers at BFHP

DONATE

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.’

September 15, 2021 by BFHP

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.

https://www.businessinsider.com/housing-market-crisis-jesse-arreguin-mayor-berkeley-residential-zoning-homes-2021-9

Filed Under: Press Releases and Articles, What's New

Footer

  • Donate
  • What’s New
  • Who We Are
  • Careers at BFHP
  • Contact

Berkeley Food & Housing Project
3225 Adeline Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
510-649-4965




Copyright © 2023 Berkeley Food & Housing Project