On April 29, 2012, Co-opers and friends warmly celebrated the start of the Sherman Hall Seismic Retrofit. This is the ninth house the Berkeley Student Cooperative is retrofitting and the first using only member savings (50%) and alumni donations (50%). We are very grateful for the generous support of Li Chu (Sherman, 1960s), Renee Schneider […]

In March 2013, the Berkeley Student Cooperative passed a budget that cuts rent 1.7% at its 17 room and board houses and limits rent increases to 1.4% at the Co-op apartments – less than half the rate of inflation. The cost of living in the BSC’s cooperative room and board houses for the coming Fall […]

The Berkeley Student Cooperative is a 501c3 nonprofit housing cooperative that provides affordable housing in room and board houses and apartments to students at UC Berkeley and other Bay Area colleges and universities. Presently the BSC has over 1300 student members living in or eating at twenty student housing cooperatives around the UC Berkeley campus. […]