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Apply by Oct. 1 to enter a randomized lottery and potentially qualify for a home retrofit grant of up to $3,000 – or $10,000 for lower income households.  Owners of older, wood-framed homes in Berkeley can apply online to qualify for grants to strengthen their homes’ resiliency to major earthquakes.Owners of these homes – wood-framed, pre-1980 homes with a raised foundation or crawl space under the home – would receive up to $3,000 for this work. Households making less than $89,040 per year can receive $7,000 more.Rental property owners of homes with four units or less can also qualify. These owners, who do not need to live in one of the units to qualify, can apply to retrofit up to five qualifying rental properties.

The suspect attempted to flee after abandoning his car near Emerson Elementary and trying to carjack someone, according to police.

Twelve global planning and urban design interventions—and what they reveal about equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change.Hillside fa

Published in Journal of the American Planning Association (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The Center for Bicyclist and Pedestrian Safety and UC Berkeley's planning department research why fire departments and street safety advocates sometimes clash

By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

Give Berkeley Bike Plan input at public meetings Tuesday and Thursday. You can also send written comments by Sept. 26.

Join an Aug. 19 virtual workshop to learn more and give input. Send email comments by Sep. 26. Let us know in a virtual workshop or via email how to make it safer to bike in Berkeley and strengthen ou...

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Students were moved from the school in 2020 due to earthquake concerns. The property, in North Berkeley, has been publicly owned for over a century.

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Op-ed: A landscape historian argues that the preservation field can play a role in protecting manufactured housing by listing it in the National Register of Historic Places.