Please note important information:
- Cloyne Court—To live at Cloyne Court, our substance-free, academic theme house, you must agree to the Academic Theme house and Substance-Free policy, linked here.
- Your space: A space in a bedroom (some are single, some are shared - double, triple, quad). All members should expect a shared bedroom in all co-ops except the Rochdale/Fenwick apartments, which are single bedrooms in shared apartments. Houses have 17-140 residents with shared kitchens, bathrooms, and common spaces. Bedroom assignments are made at unit-level. If you have questions about the room assignment (room bid) process, please contact the house manager. House manager emails can be found here.
- Food:Included at all houses during Fall and Spring. Included at some houses during Summer.
- Workshift: 5 hours per week
African American Theme House
3 Singles - 6 Doubles - 2 Triples - 21 Residents
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 her 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, CZ is a low-income safe space for bad babes, bros and queers of all colors to come together and bring the… Read More
Cloyne Court
38 Singles - 39 Doubles - 8 Triples - 140 Residents (119 in Summer)
2600 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94709
Wheelchair AccessibleOnly 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 distraction of… Read More
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 from… Read More
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 where you… Read More
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 learn to… Read More
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
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 do,… Read More
Kingman Hall
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, beaming, and charmingly sordid history, it is a local landmark; birthed as a turn of the… Read More
11 Singles - 18 Doubles - 1 Triple - 50 Residents
1730 La Loma Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709
Lothlorien
14 Singles - 15 Doubles - 2 Triples - 2 Quads
58 Residents
2415 Prospect Street
Berkeley, CA 94704All meals are vegetarian. Meat cannot be purchased with house funds and personal meat must be prepared on seperate equipment.
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… Read More
Person of Color Theme House (Castro)
7 Singles - 20 Doubles - 2 Triples - 1 Quad - 56 Residents
Wheelchair Accessible
Ridge House
11 Singles - 6 Doubles - 5 Triples - 38 Residents
2420 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94709Ridge 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 parties, but… Read More
Sherman Hall
8 Singles - 13 Doubles - 2 Triples - 40 Residents
2250 Prospect Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
Wheelchair AccessibleSherman is women identifying only during the Fall and Spring. Men and women in the summer.
Sherman Hall is a gorgeous 9,000 square foot home on the Southside of Berkeley. Sherman Hall is ADA accessible and has two DSP singles. Our co-op is located just one block from UC Berkeley’s campus, three blocks from Caffe Strada, and five minutes from the beautiful fire trails.… Read More
Stebbins
18 Singles - 23 Doubles - 64 Residents
2527 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94709Stebbins 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 tolerance and… Read More
The Convent
25 Singles - 25 Residents
1601 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94703
Wheelchair AccessibleLimited 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
Wilde House (Johnson-Rivera House)
8 Singles - 15 Doubles- 2 Triples - 44 Residents
Wheelchair accessibleIdentifiable by the bright energy radiating from it, the Oscar Wilde Johnson-Rivera co-op houses enough people to make every day feel like a social event but few enough to create a close sense of community between its colorful members.
Wolf House
10 Singles - 11 Doubles - 2 Triples - 29 Residents
2732 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Wheelchair AccessibleThe 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 always… Read More
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Fenwick Weavers Village
36 Apartments of 1 to 4 Bedrooms Each - 102 Residents
2415 Dwight Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Wheelchair AccessibleOnly 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 accessible,… Read More
Northside Apartments
13 One Bedroom Apartments - 3 Studio Apartments
26 Residents
2526 - 2540 Le Conte Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94709
Wheelchair AccessibleNorthside 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 busy working… Read More
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 AccessibleOnly 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 complex, you can… Read More