Southern California has a housing and homelessness emergency. For too long, we've allowed restrictive zoning laws, rising construction costs, and decades of underbuilding to squeeze out working families, drive up rents, and push people onto the streets. I’m committed to expanding affordable housing options, particularly for veterans, seniors, and young families. I will also champion programs that support first-time homebuyers and protect renters from displacement.

As the federal government mass eliminates housing programs, we must protect the housing tools we already have and work even harder to address our state housing crisis. We need a bold housing agenda that centers equity and inclusion and helps our most vulnerable populations–seniors on fixed incomes, veterans, and those on the brink of homelessness–that means reforming outdated zoning laws to allow more multi-family and affordable housing, especially near transit and job centers. We must prioritize inclusive development that reduces segregation and gives low-income and working-class families a chance to decide where they want to live — not just where they can afford to be. This is how we build communities that are diverse, sustainable, and connected.

• To start to address housing affordability, we must seek to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which has had harmful and unintended consequences. 

• This fight is not new for me;  I supported three efforts for housing access, CA Prop 10 (2018), Prop 21 (2020), and Prop 33 (2024). Across all three measures, my position has been consistent: housing is a human right, and renters deserve strong, enforceable protections. WE MUST keep pushing to repeal Costa-Hawkins and expand rent control.  

• Upon the repeal of Costa-Hawkins, I would support increased rent control protections, including extending rent regulations to single-family homes and newer buildings, and enabling vacancy control AND vacancy tax (as successfully done in two other CA cities), so that rents remain stable across tenancies. 

• Let's talk about the Ellis Act, another state derived law that undermines renters and destroys affordable housing units. 

• I support repealing the Ellis Act; it has been repeatedly abused by speculators and corporate landlords who use it as a pretext to evict long-term tenants, often under the guise of “going out of the rental business,” only to later re-rent or redevelop properties at much higher prices. This law has been a major engine of displacement, particularly in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, where generational tenants have been pushed out to make way for higher-profit uses.

• Repealing or at minimum, fundamentally reforming the Ellis Act is necessary to stop this pattern and to protect tenants from being uprooted solely to boost investor returns.

• Affordability has been greatly impacted by issues deriving from Prop 13, to housing and healthcare. Many of our necessities have become commodities, privatized for profit. 

• Housing and healthcare are a human right, which we must make accessible to all.

• In the state legislature, I am committed to pursuing progressive taxes to backfill the lack of federal HUD funding for creation of more senior fixed/low-income housing, housing that can accommodate our wages, not luxury housing that is only affordable for a few, and housing opportunities for first time home-buyers that meet the median wages of our regions. 

• Reforming Prop 13 will create more funding and provide a fair correction, specifically for commercial and will direct funds for city needs.