PRIORITIES
Our goal is to address YOUR priorities; to make everyday life more secure, provide affordable housing, offer healthcare to all, fund excellence in our public education, ensure a healthy environment, establish accessible transportation, and guarantee a government accountable to YOU! Together we will build thriving communities in AD14.
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Impose a vacancy tax on the 1+ million vacant homes in CA to free up locked down speculative housing.
Build and preserve permanently affordable and social housing.
Implement statewide rent control, strengthen renter protections and habitability enforcement.
Fund and support Community Land Trusts to keep housing affordable long term.
Ban the criminalization of homelessness, fund permanent housing and supportive services.
Promote quality union jobs, income protection, and give workers a real voice in the workplace.
Close developer tax loopholes who avoid meeting affordable housing mandates.
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Universal healthcare for all, including reproductive, gender-affirming, dental, vision, mental-health, substance-use, and long-term care.
Cover EVERY resident regardless of immigration status.
Full prescription drug coverage negotiated at scale through CalCare.
Expand mental-health and substance-use treatment and crisis prevention programs.
Stop forced institutionalization disguised as healthcare.
Expand in-community care for people with disabilities.
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Fully fund lifelong free public education statewide.
Engage Teachers to help shape CA’s education policies.
Recruit, retain, and fairly compensate educators and school staff.
Fund arts, music, special education, libraries, athletics, vocational training, career education, and student support services.
Implement student debt forgiveness and assistance for the nearly 4 million Californians with student debt.
Defend the civil rights, free speech, right to assembly, and academic freedom of students and faculty in all CA educational facilities.
Replace school police forces with behavioral and counseling professionals.
Repeal CA laws that prohibit educators from teaching about the genocide in Palestine and other countries.
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Transition our energy grid to renewable solar, wind, and water.
End the utilities monopolies and launch CA’s public power agency.
Fund reliable, comprehensive, connected, FREE public transportation statewide.
Transform oil/gas refinery infrastructure to renewable energy plants, with a just transition for workers.
No Coal in Oakland! Block the plan for the Coal Port in Oakland (nocoal.org).
Invest in community energy resilience programs.
Support bike-able, walkable cities projects across our district.
Implement a statewide ban on hyperscale data centers.
Hold major polluters accountable for cumulative community health impacts.
Shift funding from electric car tax incentives to public transit use.
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Ban corporations and superPACs from funding political campaigns and candidates.
Abolish ICE and close their detention centers, protect immigrant communities.
Reparations for Black American Freedmen and Chicano families.
Land Back to Indigenous nations, support Indigenous-led land and wildfire management projects.
Divest state funds from all corporations complicit in genocide, and adopt BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) standards for state expenditures.
Replace the carceral system with restorative and reparative justice.
Adopt Ranked Choice Voting and Proportional Representation
Require open, publicly broadcast debates with all ballot qualified candidates.
Implement a statewide ban on Flock cameras, strengthen privacy protections for Californians.
Create an independent commission on AI safety and ethics with subpoena and regulation powers.