Our Houses & Apartments

Please note important information regarding our theme houses:

Cloyne Court - Our substance-free, academic theme house. To live at Cloyne Court, you must agree to the Academic Theme house and Substance-Free policy, linked here.
Oscar Wilde House - LGBTQIA & Queer Theme house. It offers a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment for people with non-conforming sexualities or genders.
Afro House - Residents of our African American Theme House are devoted to serving the local African American community.
Andres Castro Arms - Our Person of Color theme house. 

Your space: A space in a bedroom (some are single, some are shared, most new members are in shared rooms) at one of the co-op rooming houses.  Houses have 17-140 residents with shared kitchens, bathrooms, and common spaces.  
Food: Included at all houses during Fall and Spring. Included at some houses during Summer. 
Workshift: 5 hours per week

Our Houses
  • An image of the front steps of African American Theme House.

    African American Theme House
    3 Singles - 6 Doubles - 2 Triples - 21 Residents
    2347 Prospect Street
    Berkeley, CA 94704

    This funky eleven-bedroom house in the Berkeley Hills has beautiful views of the San Francisco Bay as seen from the Certified Best Roof in the BSC. It is located within easy walking distance of campus and Strawberry Canyon, perfect whether you are going to class or on a moonlight hike with fellow housemates.

    The African-American Theme House (informally known as "… Read More

  • An image of Casa Zimbabwe's roof top garden.

    Casa Zimbabwe
    31 Singles - 30 Doubles - 11 Triples - 124 Residents (105 in Summer)
    2422 Ridge Rd
    Berkeley, CA 94709
    Wheelchair Accessible
     

    Casa Zimbabwe has gone through many incarnations over the years since its construction in the 1960s as both the first building designed specifically to be a student co-op, and the first in the nation to be co-ed.

    Currently, most members have lost count of the number of different lives CZ has led, but it is safe to say that the building, its… Read More

  • An image of Cloyne's grassy commons.

    Cloyne Court
    38 Singles - 39 Doubles - 8 Triples - 140 Residents (119 in Summer)
    2600 Ridge Road
    Berkeley, CA 94709
    Wheelchair Accessible

    Only UC Berkeley students are eligible to live in Cloyne. Substance-Free, Academic Theme.

    Cloyne Court opened fresh after renovations in Fall 2014 as the Substance-Free Academic Theme House.  Cloyne is the closest BSC house to the UC campus, but is also removed enough to offer respite from the hubbub of Berkeley.  Without the … Read More

  • A picture of Davis' front steps.

    Davis House
    8 Singles - 11 Doubles - 2 triples - 36 residents
    2833 Bancroft Steps
    Berkeley, CA 94704

    Originally built in the late 19th century for the attorney of the storied Hearst Family, this resplendent manor was one of the first homes to grace Panoramic Hill. Just as close to campus as to a leisurely walk in the woods, Davis is a welcoming and comfortable retreat. Though we’re only thirty-six members large, our generous common areas lure us out of our rooms for late night snacks and conversations ranging… Read More

  • An image of Euclid Hall's front patio.

    Euclid Hall
    14 Singles - 5 Doubles - 24 Residents
    1777 Euclid Ave
    Berkeley, CA 94709

    Euclid is one of the smaller houses, and correspondingly clean and mellow. We’re unique in that we have the highest single to double ratio in the co-ops - out of nineteen rooms, only FIVE are doubles. Yeah baby, do that delicious math in your head. We’re not so eager to compete for the crown of BEST MEGA PARTY HOUSE EVER!!! ...no, here at Euclid, we’re more about soirees. We’re like your favorite coffee house… Read More

  • An image of Hillegass Parker house.

    Hillegass Parker House
    57 Singles - 57 Residents
    2545 Hillegass Avenue
    Berkeley, CA 94704

    Limited to graduate student and re-entry (age 25 or older) students only. Students need to verify their eligibility before they can be assigned.

    Hillegass Parker House (HiP) is unlike any other place you are likely to live. It is a home, a safe haven, a community, an experiment, and many other things. This house is a place for friendship, creativity, insight, and self-edification. You can… Read More

  • An image of Hoyt Hall's entry way.

    Hoyt Hall
    31 Singles - 13 Doubles - 1 Triple - 60 Residents
    2519 Ridge Road
    Berkeley, CA 94709
     

    Hoyt Hall is women-identifying only in the fall and spring, co-ed during the summer.

    Looking for a place where you can find a community full of the most ambitious and amazing individuals you’ll ever meet? Well, Hoyt Hall is your best bet. With walls that fill with color each day, home improvement and social events help express everyone’s creative side. Painting murals helped house… Read More

  • An image of Kidd Hall's front steps.

    Kidd Hall
    3 singles - 7 Doubles - 17 Residents
    2562 Le Conte Avenue
    Berkeley, CA 94709

    Childish and totally awesome at heart, Kidd is a happy-go-lucky house just two blocks from North Gate. Unique co-opers from all walks of life manage to fit into the occasionally quiet, but always welcoming and everchanging culture of the BSC’s smallest house. Kidds are so special, in fact, that there are only 17 of them in production at any time. With a great backyard, pool table, and TV, there’s always something to… Read More

  • An image of Kingman Hall.

    Kingman Hall
    11 Singles - 18 Doubles - 1 Triple - 50 Residents
    1730 La Loma Ave
    Berkeley, CA 94709

    Kingman Hall, aka Toad Hall, when the weather is just so, is something of a resplendent Victorian manor lodged in the red wooded hills of North Berkeley. Ivy and Morning Glories creep along the sides of the house. It is a mere one block tumble from campus and the windy walks of the Rose Garden. A forest, a garden, a study, a place of vibrant, beating, and charmingly sordid history, it is a local landmark; birthed as… Read More

  • An image of the front of Lothlorien and its tire swing.

    Lothlorien
    14 Singles - 15 Doubles - 2 Triples - 2 Quads
    58 Residents
    2415 Prospect Street
    Berkeley, CA 94704

    All meals are vegetarian. Meat is not allowed in the kitchen or other common spaces.

    Founded in the 1970s, Lothlorien has long-standing traditions of activism and art. It's a house where one can make signs for a protest, learn to cook, find peer support, paint a mural, watch the sunset over the Bay, and build friendships - all in the same day! Our meat-… Read More

  • An image of Oscar Wilde House's front steps.

    Wilde House
    8 Singles - 15 Doubles - 38 Residents
    2410 Warring Street
    Berkeley, CA 94704
    Wheelchair accessible

    Wilde House is an LGBTQIA & Queer themed Co-op.

    Wickedly inspired, an ideal setting for all individuals seeking to live an exquisite life. Aptly named after the brilliant Irish writer and social critic persecuted for his queer offenses in the Victorian age, the house is an open theater for poetry, drama, wit, and aesthetic subversion. As America’s… Read More

  • An image of Person of Color Theme House's front steps.

    Person of Color Theme House (Castro)
    7 Singles - 20 Doubles - 2 Triples - 1 Quad - 56 Residents
    2310 Prospect Street
    Berkeley, CA 94704
    Wheelchair Accessible

    The  POCTH was established for the purpose of creating a safer, more inclusive space for historically and presently marginalized low-income students of color and those from multicultural backgrounds with the Berkeley Student Cooperative.

  • An image showing the front steps of Ridge House.

    Ridge House
    11 Singles - 6 Doubles - 5 Triples - 38 Residents
    2420 Ridge Road
    Berkeley, CA 94709

    Ridge House is the perfect fit for people who are looking for a friendly atmosphere. Ridgelings know there is a good balance between respect for the needs of a student and appreciation of a well-deserved break. Ridge is a mid-sized house; we aren’t so big that you’ll still be meeting new Ridgelings at breakfast every morning, but there is always someone to hangout with. We don’t have many huge… Read More

  • An image of Sherman Hall.

    Sherman Hall
    8 Singles - 13 Doubles - 2 Triples - 40 Residents
    2250 Prospect Street
    Berkeley, CA 94704
    Wheelchair Accessible

    Sherman is women identifying only during the Fall and Spring. Men and women in the summer.

    Sherman Hall strives to be a welcoming home for all womxn, trans womxn, and non-binary people. To be eligible to live at Sherman, you must list your gender identification as ‘woman’ with the BSC (of the two given options, ‘woman’ or ‘man’).

    Sherman’s location can’t be… Read More

  • An image of Stebbins as seen from the street.

    Stebbins
    18 Singles - 23 Doubles - 64 Residents
    2527 Ridge Road
    Berkeley, CA 94709

    Stebbins Hall is home to students of all backgrounds: veteran co-op’ers and sophomores fresh out of the dorms, junior transfers and foreign exchange students, engineers and sun worshippers, kombucha brewers and vegan bakers, hikers and pole dancers, yogis and crossword fanatics, the gluten-intolerant and caffeine addicts -- Stebbins has them all. Because of our diversity, the house character is one of… Read More

  • An image of The Convent.

    The Convent
    25 Singles - 25 Residents
    1601 Allston Way
    Berkeley, CA 94703
    Wheelchair Accessible

    Limited to Graduate and re-entry (age 25 or older) students only. Students need to verify their eligibility before they can be assigned. Only UC Berkeley graduate and re-entry students are eligible to live in the Convent during the Academic Year.

    The Convent is in fact a former convent, but the studious, cloistered nuns have long since been replaced by studious, cloistered graduate and re-entry… Read More

  • An image of Wolf House.

    Wolf House
    9 Singles - 7 Doubles - 2 Triples - 29 Residents
    2732 Durant Avenue
    Berkeley, CA 94704
    Wheelchair Accessible

    The king of the south, Wolf House (“Wolfhaus”) is the pinnacle of cooperative living. Here exists the perfect mix: a small and intimate living space where everyone knows and loves each other, and also a big-house reputation with parties to match, including the world-famous annual Drag Party. People lucky enough to get into Wolf House tend to stay in Wolf House, and even if they do move away, they… Read More

Our Apartments
  • An image of a gazebo in Fenwick's commons.

    Fenwick Weavers Village
    36 Apartments of 1 to 4 Bedrooms Each - 102 Residents
    2415 Dwight Way
    Berkeley, CA 94704
    Wheelchair Accessible

    Only UC Berkeley students are eligible to live in Fenwick during the Fall and Spring.

    Fenwick Weavers’ Village is an apartment complex with 1, 2, 3 and 4-Bedroom apartments. All bedrooms are single bedrooms with the exception of 1-bedroom apartments which can be shared by two people. Six of the apartments are wheelchair… Read More

  • An image of Northside Apartments front porch.

    Northside Apartments
    13 One Bedroom Apartments - 3 Studio Apartments
    26 Residents
    2526 - 2540 Le Conte Ave.
    Berkeley, CA 94709
    Wheelchair Accessible

    Northside Co-op is located in two adjacent buildings on Le Conte near Kidd, Euclid, Stebbins, and Hoyt co-ops. It is what might be called the final resting place of all good co-opers (hardwood floors, lots of light through multi-paned, old-fashioned windows). Life tends to be quiet and only moderately communal, as most members are… Read More

  • An image showing a grass gnoll outside of Rochdale Apartments.

    Rochdale Apartments
    259 residents in 96 units (studios and 2, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments)
    2424 Haste St.
    Berkeley, CA 94704
    (510) 548-8608
    Office Hours:  Mon-Sat 12-6
    Wheelchair Accessible

    Only UC Berkeley students are eligible to live in Rochdale during the Fall and Spring.

    The great thing about the BSC’s largest co-op, Rochdale Village, is that it has the best of both worlds. As one of 259 co-op members in this apartment… Read More