California Street Preserves Affordable Housing with Bay Area Community Land Trust.

“When longtime South Berkeley resident Inti Fernandez learned from a neighbor in 2020 that his landlord had died, his initial reaction was shock. He had known her as a generous teacher who’d given him an affordable place to stay when he was struggling as a freelance filmmaker and desperate to find housing locally.

Fernandez, a single parent of two children, wondered how he and many of his close-knit neighbors could afford to stay in increasingly expensive South Berkeley.” — Berkeleyside, Iris Kwok Berkeley article read more here