Applications opened Monday for the 100% affordable, 87-unit Maudelle Shirek Community building currently under construction near Ashby BART in South Berkeley.

We are proud to share the completion of our 2016-2023 impact report that details the work of our Community Development (CD) Department over its seven-year history. In that time, the team led many significant collaborations to enhance the quality of life in the Eden Area of unincorporated Alameda County.

As 2023 comes to a close, we wanted to share stories from two of our residents. These two stories show the importance of our affordable housing and supportive services – in both challenging times and periods of growth…

Sango Court in Milpitas recently welcomed its first 35 residents. Continuing RCD’s expansion into the South Bay, Sango Court provides 102 new rental homes ranging from studios to three bedrooms, with half of the homes dedicated to households transitioning out of homelessness. 

As cities around the country wrestle with how to rebuild communities, California is moving forward with a vision for the state’s future, investing more than $750 million to create more affordable housing and clean transportation.

The City of San Jose seeks $22.6 million to build 99 affordable homes in its Downtown. The city wants federal funding for a six-story apartment complex approved for Berkeley-based Resource for Community Development at 797 South Almaden Avenue, in the Washington-Guadalupe neighborhood.

This spring, we celebrated the Groundbreaking of two new 100% affordable housing developments in the Bay Area! A link to: Madrone Terrace in Ashland and A link to: Nellie Hannon Gateway in Emeryville will create 169 new apartments for more than 300 future residents.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) today announced it awarded over $26 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants to fund 30 projects that will create 2,420 units of affordable housing in California…

Alife spent serving the community was honored on Thursday, June 29th. 86-year-old Nellie Hannon, founder of the Emeryville Citizens Assistance Program or “ECAP”, was recognized with an affordable housing project named in her honor. “Nellie Hannon Gateway” will replace the structures at 3610 and 3620 San Pablo Avenue where she and others have been feeding those in need for decades…

The award of the Sango Court project marks Nibbi’s first foray into modular construction since the 1970s. As newcomers to modern modular construction, Nibbi approached the Sango Court project with extensive research on partnership, manufacturing, and process. Today the team’s construction process is sure-footed and honed to bring the project to completion by fall 2023…

This report demonstrates our progress towards creating and preserving affordable housing and building stronger communities. In this report, you will find details on our key achievements and highlights of the past year…

In December, we celebrated the groundbreaking of Rick Judd Commons in Concord! As the first new affordable development in Concord in over 20 years, Rick Judd Commons will bring 62 homes for low-income and working families to the city…

An affordable housing project could soon rise on a long-abandoned stretch of Martin Luther King Jr. Way that has a storied past…

Resources for Community Development (RCD) announced that construction started this fall on its new affordable housing development in Concord, Rick Judd Commons at 1315 Galindo St…

As 2022 comes to a close, we wanted to share stories from three of our residents. These stories demonstrate the power of affordable housing to provide stability during times of uncertainty and create pathways to new beginnings…

Two teams seeking the development opportunity at the North Berkeley BART station presented their credentials for public evaluation Thursday…

Thank you for joining us at Sparking Connections: Welcome Home! It was a very successful night of fundraising with friends and colleagues. Many guests reported it was a joy to gather in person with old and new friends alike. Together, we raised over $170,000 to support the creation of more affordable housing in the Bay Area…

Excavation work is progressing, with portions of the concrete foundation visible at  A link to: 2001 Ashby Avenue in  A link to: South Berkeley,  A link to: Alameda County. The project, named Maudelle Miller Shirek, will produce 87 affordable units, including twelve for formerly unhoused people, located directly across from the Ashby  A link to: BART Station. Move-ins are expected by 2024…

 To continue to address the state’s long-term affordable housing shortfall, California officials today announced all $1.02 billion in new awards for California Housing Accelerator, which provides funding to 30 shovel-ready projects in lieu of tax credit equity to create 2,755 new units of housing, most of it for lower income Californians…

Supported in part by nearly $23 million award from the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, Resources for Community Development (RCD) will provide 87 affordable rental homes in the city of Berkeley through the Maudelle Miller Shirek Community project…

Thank you to the 100+ supporters who attended the Grand Opening of Quetzal Gardens last month. It was a joy to celebrate this shared achievement with our supporters, partners and community members….

La Ciudad de San José inauguró el miércoles un complejo habitacional que beneficiará a 71 familias de bajos ingresos.

Quetzal Gardens, ubicado en la esquina de Alum Rock y King…

It would be understandable if East Oakland resident Frederick Simon was a tad bitter about the 2019 departure of his Golden State Warriors…

Five years ago, John Thomson was sharing a one-bedroom apartment in the Laurel district with four other people. They made it work, but it was cramped and he longed for a place of his own. Then one day he got a call he’d been waiting on for three years. He learned he’d snagged a spot in the Harrison Hotel…

Construction is set to start in late April or early May to turn Bella Vista Inn at 3550 El Camino Real into temporary housing for the homeless. The move is Phase I of a two-part plan to create more affordable housing in Santa Clara…

Join us in celebrating the opening of Coliseum Place in Oakland on May 5^th at 10am as part of East Bay Housing Organization’s Affordable Housing Month…

Two affordable housing projects are slated to deliver more than 150 homes along a stretch of San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. 

The developments, the 90-unit Nellie Hannon Gateway project at 3600 San Pablo Ave…

To help address the housing crisis in Oakland, the State of California recently awarded the City of Oakland approximately $215 million to support the development of 547 deeply affordable housing rental units. The awards came from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (CA HCD) and California Strategic Growth Council…

Alicia Klein, one of RCD’s Associate Directors of Real Estate Development, recently had the honor of showing Governor Newsom our new project, Clara Gardens…

The first night out on the streets, Leslie Banks lost all hope. Looking for refuge and a safe place to sleep, Banks curled up in a park with a sleeping bag and her bike. She fell asleep only to be awakened by the sprinklers in the middle of the night…

The Berkeley City Council voted to advance several housing initiatives at a special meeting Dec. 14...

The state’s aggressive push to strong-arm cities into building more housing has provoked protests and hand-wringing across California. But one Bay Area town, the small East Bay city of Emeryville, is shooting to not only meet the target but exceed it by a mile…

As we near the end of 2021, we wanted to share stories from three of our residents. These stories show the wide range of households who benefit from living in RCD’s stable and deeply affordable housing…

In a city where the average home sells for about $1.4 million, and where hundreds of homeless people sleep each night in tents, RVs, and cars, city officials have put up more than $27 million…

Santa Clara County Supervisors on Tuesday approved plans to turn hotels in Mountain View and Santa Clara into housing for homeless and low-income residents…

A complex of nearly 100 affordable homes near downtown San Jose has taken a big step forward with the purchase of the property by the project’s developer.

We are wrapping up construction this fall on the residential portion of two new communities – Coliseum Place in Oakland and Quetzal Gardens in San Jose…

Now in its 58th year, the Golden Nugget Awards have raised the bar for innovative architecture, planning, and construction concepts that solve fundamental building industry needs…

Affordable housing has replaced a once-dilapidated, historic hotel in downtown Oakland, providing safety and security to some residents who used to call the place, ‘Hotel Hell.’ The century-old Empyrean Towers on 13th Street has been rebuilt and outfitted with new roof, plumbing, heating, lighting and wiring…

St. Paul’s Commons is providing important housing options in the high-priced housing market of Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay Area…

The Walnut Creek City Council last week approved a $6 million loan to a Berkeley-based affordable-housing developer toward a $68.2 million, 95-unit mixed housing and commercial project downtown…

At RCD we have always focused on building community…

A South Berkeley credit union is saying goodbye to its longtime home near Ashby BART to make way for a 100% affordable housing project that includes units for tenants who were formerly homeless…

“I’m feeling particularly grateful for my home today…

Developers of a $31.2 million Fairfax affordable senior housing project are struggling to assemble the money needed to build the 54-unit project amid escalating costs…

Resources for Community Development wants to build what it calls “1313 Galindo,” a $25 million project that would house veterans, seniors, small families and people with disabilities. Forty of the units would be either one or two bedrooms. The $5.5 million piece was the first major money infusion for the project, said Alicia Klein, RCD’s senior project manager…

Resources for Community Development has received a grant of $500,000 from The Home Depot Foundation (THDF) to fund construction at Embark Apartments for veterans in Oakland. This gap financing is increasingly important, given how rapidly construction prices are increasing…

Marin County supervisors unanimously approved a $1.5 million grant and $1.1 million short-term loan Tuesday in an attempt to help Victory Village, a 54-unit affordable senior housing project planned for Fairfax, close a $4.85 million funding gap…

Churches—whether they be parishes, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, or temples—serve as foundations in communities. Houses of worship. Historic and geographic landmarks. Moral compasses. Meeting halls. Soup kitchens. Shelters. Perhaps, it’s only fitting that a few end up as affordable housing…