Compare candidates for California State Assembly District 17 | Change.vote

California State Assembly District 17

Matt Haney

Democratic

Manuel Noris-Barrera

Republican Party

Issue stances

Issue getting the most attention

Housing approvals

End exclusionary zoning, streamline CEQA for infill housing, cut permitting times in half, and speed office-to-housing conversions through AB 507.

Streamline planning and zoning processes and cut regulatory red tape to accelerate housing production.

Issue with the biggest divide

Business regulation

Modernize nightlife rules to help small businesses and cultural institutions thrive, and cap live-event ticket resale prices through AB 1720.

Attract new businesses to San Francisco and make the city friendlier to small businesses.

Addiction treatment

Expand access to methadone, buprenorphine, naloxone, treatment, and recovery housing, while requiring opioid-blocking spray in certain public venues.

Address drug abuse together with mental-health problems, homelessness, crime, and unemployment.

Mental-health response

Increase access to mental health care and improve mental-health treatment capacity and crisis-stabilization services.

Increase mental-health funding and treat mental health, substance abuse, homelessness, crime, and unemployment as interconnected problems.

Renter protections

Cap residential security deposits through AB 12, ban rent junk fees through AB 1248, and strengthen renter protections and housing-law implementation.

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Endorsements

Experience

2022 to presentAssemblymember - District 17, California State Assembly
2018 to 2022Supervisor - District 6, San Francisco City
2013 to 2022Lecturer, Stanford University, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
2013 to 2018National Policy Director, The Dream Corps

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