UC Berkeley is committed to increasing campus housing options that support students’ ability to thrive, succeed, and fully partake in all that the university has to offer. Developing more student housing is a campus priority.
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Long-term Student Housing Plans and Goals
Recently Completed Housing Projects
Housing Projects In Construction and In Development
Future Housing Development
Long-term Student Housing Plans and Goals
Campus goals: Two years of housing availability for incoming freshmen, one year for transfers, and one year for graduate students.
In 2017, UC Berkeley established its housing goals which requires adding more than 9,000 new beds — essentially doubling existing campus housing. While there is more work to be done, the university is making substantial progress towards its goals.
Recently Completed Housing Projects
Since 2018, UC Berkeley has added more than 2,400 beds in four new housing developments that are now open for student residents.
Blackwell Hall
Blackwell Hall is a large eight-story building, located one block from campus.
New housing: 775 beds | 2401 Durant Ave, Berkeley
Details: Completed in August 2018, Blackwell Hall is an undergraduate residence hall consisting mostly of double rooms in a modern building that includes amenities such as patios, study rooms, bike racks, exercise machines, and views of the Golden Gate.
Intersection Apartments
The Intersection Apartments located in Emeryville.
New housing: 105 apartment units | 3800 San Pablo Ave, Emeryville
Details: Completed in 2021, Intersection Apartments is an independent-living option for single graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with direct AC bus line access to campus. The apartments are light-filled, airy and modern, with oversized windows in the heart of bustling, vibrant Emeryville.
Helen Diller Anchor House
Anchor House, as seen from the corner of Oxford Street and University Avenue.
New housing: 772 beds | corner of Oxford Street and University Avenue, Berkeley
Details: Completed in August 2024, Anchor House is the first campus housing complex dedicated to undergraduate transfer students. Offering 772 single-occupancy bedrooms in 244 apartments, Anchor House is a transformative project that helps transfer students to thrive academically, socially, and culturally. The building also creates vitally needed facilities for commuter students and opens new public spaces for the campus and community.
xučyun ruwway Graduate Student Apartments
A rendering of the xučyun ruwway Student Apartments, as seen from the corner of Jackson and Monroe Streets.
New housing: 761 beds | corner of Monroe and Jackson Streets, Albany
Details: Completed in August 2024, xučyun ruwway Graduate Student Apartments provides fully-furnished apartments with single-occupancy bedrooms primarily for UC Berkeley graduate students. Conveniently located on a direct AC Transit bus line to campus, the complex also includes shared indoor and outdoor common spaces, such as lounges, courtyards, and lawns, enabling residents to build community. The complex tripled the supply of university-owned housing available for single graduate students.
Housing Projects In Construction and In Development
UC Berkeley currently has two housing projects that are in construction and in development. These projects will add more than 2,600 new beds in the coming years.
People’s Park Housing
A rendering of the student housing that will be built in People’s Park with a view from the corner of Bowditch Street and Dwight Way.
New housing: 1,113 beds | corner of Haste and Bowditch Streets, Berkeley
Details: Construction of the People’s Park Housing project is underway. The project will build below-market rate apartments for more than 1,100 continuing undergraduates (second-, third-, and fourth-year students). Located a few blocks from campus, apartments will include a fully equipped kitchen and, consistent with our goal to design new student housing with a higher level of accessibility, every unit will be accessible. The project was developed over the course of more than five years of extensive planning, public engagement, and rigorous environmental review. Plans for People’s Park incorporate four fundamental objectives: urgently needed student housing; in a separate building, approx. 100 units of permanent supportive housing; revitalized open space (more than 60% of the site); and a commemoration of the park’s past and historical significance.
Bancroft-Fulton Student Housing
New housing: 1,500 – 1,600 beds* | corner of Bancroft Way and Fulton Street, Berkeley
Details: The Bancroft-Fulton Student Housing project will include a 23-story high-rise with primary frontage on Bancroft Way and a 12-story southern extension facing Durant Avenue. The building will provide 1,500 to 1,600 beds for first- and second-year undergraduate students in a mix of triples, doubles, and singles. The housing complex will feature a 500-seat dining commons. Other amenities include a fitness center, laundry facilities, meeting spaces, and a large elevated terrace for gathering. Each residential floor will also include multiple study lounges, offering quiet spaces for academic work and collaboration. The project is targeting a construction start date of December 2025, pending approval from the UC Board of Regents.
* Actual bed count is not yet determined.
Future Housing Development
UC Berkeley has identified several additional campus properties for new housing development. These sites will subsequently be developed as they first require relocation of existing programs, are redevelopments of existing housing to increase capacity, or are sites in which development is restricted by legal covenants.
2000 Carlton Street
New housing: estimated 400 beds | 2000 Carleton St, Berkeley
Details: Requires relocation of existing Facilities Services uses.
2302 Channing Way
New housing: approx. 1,500 beds* | 2302 Channing Way, Berkeley
Details: Requires relocation of existing Recreation & Wellbeing uses and parking.
Beverly Cleary
New housing: estimated 300 beds | Beverly Cleary Hall, Channing Way, Berkeley
Details: Redevelopment of existing housing to increase capacity.**
Clark Kerr Campus
New housing: To be determined | 2601 Warring Street, Berkeley
Details: New housing development at Clark Kerr Campus is restricted until after 2032 by legal covenants.**
Foothill North
New housing: estimated 70 beds | 2700 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley
Details: Redevelopment of existing housing in Foothill (Unit 4) residence hall to increase capacity.**
Oxford Tract
New housing: estimated 2,000 beds | Oxford Tract, Berkeley
Details: Requires relocation of existing Rausser College programs.
Upper Hearst
New housing: estimated 150 beds | corner of Hearst and La Loma Avenues, Berkeley
Details: Requires relocation of existing Recreation & Wellbeing uses and parking.
Unit 3
New housing: estimated 600 beds | 2400 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
Details: Redevelopment of existing housing in Unit 3 residence hall to increase capacity.**
**Planned redevelopment projects for existing residence halls and apartments will not impact the availability of housing space currently offered to students.
For questions about living in recently completed new housing developments, please email reshall@berkeley.edu. For questions about housing projects currently in construction and planning, please email capitalstrategies@berkeley.edu.