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1. Rapidly Expanding Affordable Housing: For years, the city has failed to build enough apartments that working people can actually afford. As a result, nearly half of our residents spend too much on rent and over 5,000 of our neighbors are homeless. I support housing approaches that address the magnitude of our crisis by rapidly expanding funding, zoning, and partnerships for affordable housing development. I’ll work with local agencies to build partnerships to convert vacant buildings into affordable housing and community spaces, while expanding long-term pathways to keep homeownership inside our communities. 
   

2. Urgently Addressing Homelessness: There are more empty homes than homeless people in Oakland. Our homelessness crisis is a direct outcome of our city’s failure to build and sustain housing options that are truly accessible to very low-income people. I’ll work to expand supportive housing, alternative housing options, and safe parking sites for RVs and people sleeping in their cars. I’ll work with local agencies and non-profits to ensure homeless people have access to healthcare, addiction services, personal identification, and a phone, so the city can help them transition to long-term, safe housing options. I also support public hiring programs for unhoused people to find employment providing essential services, like street cleaning. 
   

3. Preventing Evictions: Too many Oakland residents are one car problem or medical bill away from missing rent. During COVID, Oakland enacted an emergency rental assistance program for tenants facing eviction. The pandemic ended, but our affordability crisis didn’t. I support proposals to keep people in their homes, from providing funding for people facing eviction to proactively investigating issues with rental properties, so residents know their homes are safe.
   

4. Prioritizing Justice: Black, Latino, and Asian households overspend on rent in Oakland. The vast majority of our homeless population is Black. As your Councilmember, I’ll fight to end practices that prevent people from getting housed, like landlord intimidation, price-fixing rent algorithms and credit checks on rental applications.

1. Safe Streets: Simple investments in street cleaning and lighting have been shown to reduce crime and help residents spend more time outside in the community. I support expanding our investments in light repairs, filing potholes, and regular, deep cleanups of areas that accumulate disproportionate waste, like encampments. I also support efforts that make our roads safer for elderly people, bikers, and disabled people, including by building more speed bumps, permanent and protected bike lanes, and widened sidewalks, particularly in areas with a significant number of street vendors. We also must fully fund street paving. 
   

2. Eliminate the Safety Tax: Oakland’s community-led traffic safety program allows residents to make traffic improvements in their own neighborhoods. Currently, the City charges residents $1,200 in permitting fees to do so. I’ll work to eliminate fees for the program. 
   

3. Expanding Free Transit: Oakland’s Universal Basic Mobility Pilot made public transportation free for low-income Oaklanders. Nearly every participant in the program used the funding to commute to work, pick up their kids, and buy groceries. I’ll fight to bring it back. The city also operates an electric bike lending program, with some fees attached.  That program must provide truly free bike rentals to low-income people. 
   

4. Public Jobs for Public Good: Our city should lift the hiring freeze on public service workers who pave and clean our streets. These roles contribute immensely to our local safety and serve as valuable onramps to employment for unhoused people and Oakland youth. I’ll fight to expand hiring and partner with programs like the Oakland Public Works Training Academy to establish long-term hiring pipelines for our youth.

1. Expanding Oversight: Most government funding in Oakland is legally-required to have a citizen oversight body. In reality, some bodies rarely meet or don’t provide regular reports on public spending. As a result, precious local funding for services like homelessness prevention has routinely been misspent, likely resulting in some residents going unhoused. I’ll fight for independent audits of city funding, both to ensure existing funding is being properly spent on city services and to prevent another budget crisis. 
   

2. Expanding Reporting: Oakland maintains a policy that it will not fund companies that collaborate with ICE. There is good reason to believe the city has violated this policy, jeopardizing the legal rights and safety of our immigrant neighbors. I’ll fight for consistent reporting of city expenditures and independent audits. 
   

3. Ethical Financial Investments: Tax dollars are an expression of our city’s values. As our country plunges into another war, it is vital that the city dollars are spent on vendors that uphold the safety, rights, and dignity of all people. I exclusively support partnering with vendors that share our city’s commitment to ending global wars, upholding worker protections, and protecting our immigrant neighbors. I pledge not to accept any campaign contributions from corporations, including the cryptocurrency and real estate lobbyists who fund my opponent.
   

4. Holding Corporations Accountable: Workers deserve fair wages and safe working conditions. I support empowering the Department of Workplace and Employment Standards to publicize workplace investigation outcomes, educate businesses about their obligations as employers, and proactively investigate industries with high rates of abuse. No business with unresolved labor violations should be allowed to receive a city license or permit to operate. 

1. Investing in Violence Prevention: Oakland has spent decades pouring resources into responding to crime after it already happened, while underinvesting in the programs that work to prevent crime from happening at all. Real, lasting safety requires us to take a long-term approach to address the root causes of crime, like poverty, lack of opportunity, and instability. Oakland must invest in the programs that prevent violence by expanding the Department of Violence Prevention and funding community-led ambassador programs that address conflict before it escalates. The city must provide preventative security funding for small businesses (for better lighting, locks, and storefront protections) so workers, local business owners, and customers feel safe in our neighborhoods.
   

2. Improving 911 Responses: When city residents call for help, they deserve a response that is fast and appropriate. I’ll work with SEIU 1021 to improve working conditions for 911 dispatchers and recruit more bilingual workers. I support expanding MACRO, Oakland’s non-violent response program, to bolster the capacity of our emergency response system and ensure that unarmed responders are handling calls whenever possible. 
   

3. Mental Health and Addiction Services: I’ll fight to expand access to mental healthcare and substance use treatment throughout Oakland by fighting for expanded funding to MACRO and encouraging the development of new, wraparound treatment centers. I will also work with the county to expand to fentanyl testing and narcan access. 
   

4. Jobs for Oakland’s Youth: The city government has dozens of unfilled roles, while hundreds of our youth lack adequate employment opportunities. I will fight to investigate existing openings to determine which roles can be reclassified to entry level roles, opening up hiring opportunities for youth. I’ll also fight to expand staffing requirements for city contracts to encourage local hiring for public projects. 
   

5. Expanding Childcare and Eldercare: Oakland families are being squeezed by the rising cost of childcare, while the workers who provide care are often surviving on poverty wages. I’ll work with the county to increase subsidized childcare slots, raise the wages of childcare workers, and financially support family members and loved ones caring for children. At the same time, we must also invest in seniors’ abilities to age with dignity by increasing affordable senior housing and increasing access to the city’s subsidized home improvement program for seniors. 

The Alameda County Ethical Investment Policy set the standard for what we should expect from our electeds. I will push for a similar policy in Oakland, divesting from companies which participate in the genocide in Gaza. Using the American Friends Service Committee's database of investments tied to human rights violations, as well as the United Nations database of businesses linked to settlement activity, we must screen our city's investments and procurements. Our tax dollars must not underwrite human rights abuses, and weapons must not go through our ports.

Our federal government under Trump has carried out a ruthless program to divide our community. We must make it clear that ICE is not welcome in Oakland. I will expand enforcement efforts for existing city policies banning collaborations with ICE and CBP. We must provide city resources to ensure all of Oakland's businesses and neighbors are prepared to assert our rights and defend our neighbors when ICE shows up on our streets.