BERKELEY — About two years after a developer selected for the supportive housing element of UC Berkeley’s controversial student housing project at People’s Park backed out, a new developer has been selected.

Berkeley-based nonprofit Satellite Affordable Housing Associates will now be building and operating a roughly 100-unit apartment building meant to serve as affordable housing for former homeless and low-income people, officials with University of California, Berkeley, announced Thursday.

The development is part of a larger UC Berkeley project to build more than 1,100 housing units of student housing on a 2.8-acre lot formerly home to People’s Park, an open green space with a decades-long history of activism.

“We are proud to bring six decades of affordable housing development and op

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