Andy Kelley for Berkeley Rent Board

Please take 5 minutes to shape Rent Board services by taking our 2025 Berkeley Tenant Landlord Survey before it closes December 14! Whether you have or have not used our online registry, your feedback will directly guide our priorities—so please take a moment today to make sure your experience is reflected as we move into 2026.

And be sure to like the updated Berkeley Rent Board page for official updates!

Lateefah Simon is a visionary, progressive leader who will uplift our entire community as our next member of Congress and continue Barbara Lee's tradition of speaking for all of us!

I could not be more honored to have her endorsement of my re-election to Rent Board. I look forward to working alongside her to advance policies to address the Bay Area's affordable housing crisis and to prevent our most vulnerable neighbors from being displaced.

Be sure to fill out your ballot and get it in the mail this weekend, or drop it off at City Hall! (No stamps needed!)

Honored to earn the Democratic Party endorsement for my reelection to the Berkeley Rent Board. I will never stop fighting for a more affordable Berkeley for all of us to call home. Can you donate today to help me get out the vote & win?

Together we can continue to build a more affordable Berkeley but I need your support by midnight tonight to continue to serve our community by voting in the Berkeley Tenants Convention.

All Berkeley residents above age 13 can vote and doing so is quick and easy. Just request a ballot by midnight TONIGHT and one will be emailed to you to fill out. Super simple.

Already voted? Please share your support with 5 friends today and ask them to vote as well. Thank you!

I love calling Berkeley home but far too many people are facing displacement, eviction, and rising rents. I need your support at this year's convention to continue to fight for a more affordable Berkeley as your Rent Board Commissioner.

Berkeley residents who support affordable housing and tenants rights can request your ballot easily and online. Link below.

AC Boost is Alameda County's Down Payment Assistance Program funded by Measure A1. This program offers shared appreciation loans of up to $210,000 to first-time homebuyers who live in, work in, or have been displaced from Alameda County.

The application window closes on May 15, 2024.

Learn more or submit your pre-application at www.acboost.org or call (510) 500-8840.

During the pandemic we finally provided the funding to homeless services that has desperately been needed for years -- Turns out these programs can be highly successful when we choose as a society to invest in lifting up our most vulnerable neighbors and helping them get back on their feet. If we could do it once, we can do it moving forward.

California should expand pandemic shelter program, study says. How Project Roomkey succeeded A third of people transitioned into permanent or temporary housing after leaving Project Roomkey, according to a new study.