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Berkeley Research Institute is a California coalition-based service, not affiliated with the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board or other city government agencies. This grass-roots coalition provides social impact statements and economic reports, based on academic research and exploratory findings.

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RESEARCH TOPICS

Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis: Oakland-Hayward- Berkeley, California

Rent Board regulation’s economic impact on the community

Berkeley Rent Board regulation’s contribution to the rental scarcity

Berkeley Rent Board regulation’s contribution to environmental inefficacies

Berkeley Rent Board regulation’s overall contribution to higher rents

Berkeley Rent Board regulation’s effect on higher rents for students

Judicial review of Berkeley Rent Board as an unregulated government entity

Berkeley Rent Board’s lack of transparency and forced tenant registration

How to create a more equitable housing market

Countering the rationale for providing subsidized /rent-controlled housing for millionaires

Berkeley Rent Board’s continuing legal engagements

The Crazy Story of the Professor Who Came to Stay—and Wouldn’t Leave

Rentals in Berkeley are in owner-occupied buildings 46% of the time but they are not given the same privileges as to others, further eroding Berkeley’s middle-class in favor of large corporations

Berkeley Rent Board regulation’s encroachment on individual liberties, especially homeowners

Ways to eliminate renter’s $150 annual portion of the Berkeley Rent Board’s registration fees

Ways to increase housing supply close to downtown and have a positive effect on the economy and the environment especially for the student population

Ways to increase housing stock

Berkeley Rent Board’s aid in the creation of a “Hippie Class” at the expense of not producing diversity with cultural, racial, and academic inclusion

Rent Board regulation’s social impact on increased protections for “nuisance” tenant. Primarily focused on the safety and well-being of other tenants and the community from issues such as illegal activity, sexual harassment, physical threats, fire safety

Unconstitutionality of Berkeley Rent Board’s statutes

Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board’s historical animosity toward economists – especially U.C. Berkeley academics with Ph.D. dissertations on the “Economic Effects of Rent Control"

Berkeley Rent Stabilization close relationship with tenant trial attorneys– especially ones that use the Board’s convoluted structure of statutes to extract settlements from unsophisticated well-meaning landlords

The fallacy of the "Berkeley" commons

The executive, the legislative, and the judicial functions of the Berkeley Rent Board

Berkeley Rent Board Rules that Dead People can Live Places.

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling: Citizens Against Rent Control v. City of Berkeley, 454 U.S. 290 (1981)

Berkeley extends help to renters but not landlords (Penalizes 46% of homeowners living at home)

Robert Riech's "Rot at the Top", Alameda County District Attorney's office filed five felony

charges against Rent Board Commissioner Christopher Kavanagh

Berkeley Rent Board Member Jailed