Igor Tregub Priorities 

Elected in 2024, Councilmember Igor Tregub brings the experience we need, the dedication we deserve, and the progressive values we share.

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Igor is always working hard for you, and he is ready to continue his service on the City Council, creating positive change and fostering a more inclusive and equitable Berkeley for all.​

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Igor's Priorities are Berkeley Priorities:

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Build an Affordable Berkeley We Can All Call Home.

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Both as our City Councilmember and as a twice-elected Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board member, I have championed every ballot measure to invest in affordable housing and to expand tenant protections. 

 

Using every available strategy and resource available, my top priority is to expand the dream of housing affordability and homeownership to Berkeleyans struggling to make it in our city. 

 

My efforts have resulted in Berkeley:

 

• Passing one of the strongest demolition ordinances in the nation to protect sitting renters;

• Opening up hundreds of units of new housing affordable to a wide range of income levels, including hundreds of affordable housing units in the Downtown; and

• Through an innovative small sites program that I championed both on and off the Council, keeping many seniors and families rooted in Berkeley rather than displaced.

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Prioritize a Safe, Accessible, and Vibrant Downtown. 

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The District 4 Councilmember has the distinct honor and responsibility of representing Downtown Berkeley, the heart of our city. I have worked and continue to work with small business owners, city officials, and nonprofits to make our downtown the envy of the Bay Area. 

 

That requires smart approaches to public safety and a willingness to listen to impacted businesses. 

 

My vision: Downtown Berkeley should be an ever more inviting and welcoming destination for all, and it must sustain a vibrant art, cultural, and small business community.

 

I am working with diligence, focus, and attentiveness toward that goal. 

 

To that end, I have:

 

• Introduced dozens of policy items to cut red tape associated with permitting and reduce soft costs borne by small businesses; 

• Worked to improve lighting downtown to make our streets safer at night;

• Successfully ended an illegal dumping site in our downtown and continue to work with the city to address blight; and

• Continue to address the unacceptable commercial vacancy rate in our downtown. While this problem predates my time in office and is largely due to a variety of complex global and macroeconomic factors, for the first time in six years, it has declined to pre-pandemic levels.

 

Safe and Accessible Infrastructure. 

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In my time in office, I have focused on making Berkeley streets safe for everyone, including seniors, people with disabilities, strollers, and rollers. 

 

My efforts have led to progress big and small, including:

 

• Reimagining Oxford Street as one that is safe for users of all modes of transit;

• Investing in safer pedestrian crossings and intersections throughout District 4, and 

• Establishing a regulatory framework for the safe use of shared micromobility devices that does not impede access of our public sidewalks by pedestrians and wheelchair users. 

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Vision Zero – a city where traffic accidents resulting in serious injury or fatality approaches zero – remains the goal, and we are making significant progress under my leadership.

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Every day, I put my strong working relationships with leaders at BART and AC Transit on your behalf. I have been entrusted by my peers to serve as chair of the AC Transit Parcel Tax Oversight Committee, where I partner on more affordable, plentiful, and seamless ways to get around Berkeley and our region.

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Help the unhoused rebuild their lives. 

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My efforts have supported an overall reduction in Berkeley’s unsheltered homelessness population in recent years. However, far too many people are still living on the streets. This puts an enormous strain on the unhoused and our community. 

 

Helping our unhoused neighbors get off the streets and find stability remains one of my top priorities. 

 

Even before my time on the Council, my efforts to help build and finance the Hope Center on Berkeley Way, a revolutionary deeply affordable housing project with 60 beds and wraparound services, were key to its opening and continued service to our community.

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In my two years on the Council, I've embraced a housing-first approach that has gotten close to 100 of our formerly unhoused neighbors off the streets and into supportive environments with wraparound services and treatment as needed. 

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With a track record of building consensus to get things done, I continue to partner on a regional level with our neighbors to tackle the homelessness crisis from every direction.

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I’ve worked to ensure that as many Measure W (a homelessness support ballot measure adopted in 2020) county dollars as possible go into addressing our homelessness crisis. I’ve been a relentless advocate in ensuring that Berkeley receives its fair share of Measure W dollars, because we have both a demonstrated need and the results to prove that our strategies are working to reduce homelessness in a strategic and compassionate way.

 

Champion Bold Climate Leadership. 

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Berkeley has always led the way on the environment, often with my leadership. As a clean energy policy expert and Berkeley's representative to the Ava Community Energy Board (our clean energy community alternative to for-profit utilities), I have prioritized making Berkeley the first carbon-free city in the nation through successful efforts to reduce building emissions, expand public EV charging infrastructure, and invest in climate-resilient community gathering spaces, localized solar energy, battery storage, and community microgrids—with an emphasis on supporting renters with access to affordable renewable energy.

 

Our city’s climate leadership is something we should be proud of, and I bring the expertise needed to keep us on track.

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There are no areas of city governance improvement that my efforts have not been instrumental in advancing. From ensuring a more accountable and transparent budgeting process, to relentlessly working to reduce red tape for our residents and small businesses, to standing strong with our immigrant communities, every day, in every way, I go to work on your behalf - for a Berkeley we can ALL call home. 

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