Platform

We need a California where

Healthcare & Housing are human rights

not stock options. Simple, common sense solutions.

Principles

Housing First

Everyone eats before anyone gets seconds.

  • Eminent domain for egregious, corrupt private appropriation of public goods.

  • Progressive taxation of vacant properties - particularly corporate & private equity companies that own large numbers of such properties.

  • Acquired properties would be state-managed, mixed-income, social housing operated at cost, not for profit. [1]

  • Immediate rent freeze, aggressive rent control & enforcement

  • Mortgage forgiveness & state first-time homeowner programs to bring homeownership back into reach.

Healthcare is

a human right

Good health is good business.

  • Declare a public health emergency, enabling expansion of Medi-Cal without premiums, deductibles or co-pays.

  • Mandate comprehensive coverage that includes mental health, vision, dental and gender-affirming care.

  • Pass single-payer healthcare - moving from temporary emergency measures to a permanent statutory foundation for universal care.

  • General Motors spends more on healthcare than it does on steel. With a universal public option, small businesses will be more competitive against large corporations & California will become the most attractive state for commerce.

Homelessness is

a Policy Failure

Homelessness has risen by 50% in 5 years because most spending has gone to real estate developers & NGOs.

We cannot solve homelessness by sweeps, vagrancy laws & criminalization of poverty.

A $100 increase in median rent is estimated to raise homelessness by 9%. [2]

Solutions require extending housing & care.

Building Universal Security

Universal healthcare, universal social housing & universal basic income [3] for the poorest members of our society can dramatically reduce homelessness within the first Ware Administration - at a far lower cost than the $25 billion spent by Newsom’s Administration over the last 5 years.