- It's worth mentioning how similar Berkeley, CA and Cambridge, MA are. Both high income cities known for their in demand universities, left politics, and astronomically high housing costs. Both are majority renter and home to relatively young, diverse, and well-educated populations.Jan 6, 2026 19:55
- Both across a body of water from a larger, major US city. Both played key roles in the birth and expansion of exclusionary zoning. Both have limited room to build out but obvious opportunities to build up.
- Sometimes people opposed to new housing here will begrudgingly admit that new supply may slow rent growth in other cities, while insisting that can't work in Cambridge. But plenty of folks in Berkeley said the same thing about their city, and well... www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/01/b...
