A recently cleared parcel near San Pablo Avenue and Uptown Oakland is now the site of plans for a seven-story apartment building with 90 homes, 89 of them deed-restricted as affordable for low-income households. The proposal at 2101 Brush Street, in West Oakland’s Ralph Bunche neighborhood, would set aside one unit for an on-site property manager.
According to San Francisco YIMBY, the application comes from the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, with Pyatok Architects handling the design. The 0.46-acre site sits along Brush Street between 21st and 22nd streets, a block from the intersection of San Pablo Avenue and West Grand Avenue, in Alameda County.
The building is expected to rise roughly 85 feet and total about 114,700 square feet, with 91,900 square feet dedicated to housing and a 9,400-square-foot ground-level garage, per the same filing. The filing lists a unit mix of 12 studios, 30 one-bedrooms, 24 two-bedrooms, and 24 three-bedrooms, with parking planned for 23 cars and 30 bicycles.
Modular Construction and a Full Density Bonus
The structure would be built using six levels of modular construction stacked over a single concrete podium, the report notes. A podium-top courtyard is planned for the second floor, featuring landscaping, play structures, and patio seating for residents, while the exterior would combine facade articulation with a tri-color palette of painted cement plaster and a ground floor wrapped in brick veneer or tiles.
The applicant is invoking the state Density Bonus Law along with Assembly Bill 2011 and Senate Bill 330 to streamline approval and boost residential capacity beyond what base zoning would otherwise allow. Those tools would help the project secure a 100% density bonus. Under California’s Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, AB 2011 is codified as an act amending Government Code sections and adding Chapter 4.1, beginning with Section 65912.100, according to California Legislative Information. Separately, the City of Oakland’s own density-bonus paperwork points developers to Government Code Sections 65915 through 65918 as the state’s Affordable Housing Density Bonus Requirements, per a City of Oakland form.
Part of a Broader Wave of West Oakland Affordable Housing
The Brush Street proposal would join a cluster of affordable housing activity already reshaping this stretch of West Oakland. Directly across from the site stands Margaret Gordon Westport, a five-story affordable complex that the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation opened in 2025. EBALDC also built The Phoenix, a four-story, 100-unit affordable development at 801 Pine Street in the neighborhood’s Prescott area, which celebrated its grand opening on November 20, 2025, according to EBALDC.
That earlier project cost roughly $60 million to build and was constructed in separate modular sections that were assembled on-site. The Phoenix opened in November 2025, and its modular approach let EBALDC and co-developer Abode Housing Development deliver 100 affordable units for low-income residents.
West Oakland BART Project Adds to the Pipeline
A larger affordable housing effort is underway at the West Oakland BART Station. Bay Area Rapid Transit said its development partner, Mandela Station Partners, LLC, began construction on 240 affordable housing units at the station site on September 14, 2026. That work is part of a larger transit-oriented development planned to include 762 residential units in total, along with retail and office space, according to project materials from Mandela Station Oakland, which lists completion of the affordable housing component for the first quarter of 2029.
No construction cost or timeline estimates have been shared for the 2101 Brush Street proposal itself, and the filing reviewed by San Francisco YIMBY does not indicate when the project might break ground. For now, the plans mark another entry in West Oakland’s growing list of affordable developments clustered around the San Pablo Avenue corridor and the neighborhood’s transit hub.
