We are raising $50,000 to cross the finish line at Stuart Street Apartments!
1638 Stuart Street was a long-time vacant and deteriorating apartment building in South Berkeley, until the McGee Ave Baptist Church partnered with the Bay Area Community Land Trust (BACLT) to renovate these eight apartments into brand new, permanently affordable homes for lower income residents. The past two years have been especially challenging for a renovation project due to delays and rapidly inflated costs. As of August 2022 we completed 99% of the project, but ran out of funds just before needing to pave the driveway and add landscaping.
We need to raise $50,000 to complete the exterior beautification of this historic property. Help us cross the finish line on this innovative, permanently affordable, green-built housing co-op for low-income residents in South Berkeley!
Make a donation via our GoFundMe and then please share with people who also want to support permanently affordable housing.
Established in 1916, the historic McGee Avenue Baptist Church has owned the Church and apartment building next door since 1930. Although the neighborhood gentrified over the years, and black families moved out of the area, the congregation has continued to serve the community every Sunday with services at the Church. However, the apartments remained vacant and deteriorating until 2016, when the Church approached BACLT with a desire to give back to their South Berkeley community by renovating and offering them as permanently affordable housing for low-income residents.
Please contribute what you can – any size donation is welcome!