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Berkeley City Council approved final updated design standards for the North Berkeley BART housing development in a Dec. 12 special meeting.

Berkeley’s homeless shelters remain at reduced capacity and continue to have pandemic precautions in place, with more people in need than there are beds.

On the edge of West Berkeley, dozens of tents and vehicles can be seen congregating on Second Street as members of the unhoused community wait to be admitted to homeless shelters at full capacity. Amid various implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, a single mother and her child resided in the basement of another family’s house in North Berkeley, struggling to make ends meet during the decline of the local and national economy. With the enforcement of health protocols, an individual in South Berkeley found himself spending most evenings sleeping on the sidewalk facing the impossibility of fo...

Four Project Roomkey hotels will have leases extended into January Google/Courtesy The Rodeway Inn, one of the Project Runway hotels in Berkeley, will have its lease extended through January. Aside from Project Runway housing, Berkeley has also supplied a city-owned home and trailers. On Tuesday, Alameda County extended Project Roomkey leases through the end of January 2021 for four hotels currently providing housing to members of the homeless community. Two of Project Roomkey’s hotels are in Berkeley, and together they offer 69 units of housing. While the Rodeway Inn’s lease will be ext...