Fund five police academies toward the city’s 700-officer goal, while treating police, fire, and violence prevention as last-in-line for cuts.
Staff the police department to the Measure NN 700-officer minimum and raise 911 response toward California’s 90% standard.
Increase OPD staffing to 1,000 by 2027 and use federal COPS grants and redirected city funding for staffing.
Secure resources for community policing.
Issue with the biggest divide
City spending oversight
Audit city spending for waste, abuse, and fraud. Reform City Hall operations to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency.
Release a plain-English city financial overview, launch department scorecards and spending dashboards, and conduct independent audits of major contracts.
Restructure city debt interest payments, audit city finances and nonprofit spending, and redirect money from ineffective programs.
Ensure transparency in how Oakland tax dollars are spent.
Small-business support
Reduce barriers for new businesses and create a one-stop resource platform focused on small and minority-owned businesses.
Expand capital access for small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses, create an Oakland Opportunity Fund, and invest in neighborhood commercial corridors.
Provide incentives for small and medium businesses to reopen and create an Oakland investment bank to finance new technology and manufacturing.
Help locally owned businesses succeed.
Illegal dumping cleanup
Continue the Keep the Town Clean effort and anti-dumping cleanup programs in heavily affected communities.
End illegal dumping, accelerate cleanup response, and maintain parks, sidewalks, and public spaces citywide.
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Pursue cleaner streets and neighborhoods.
Affordable housing development
Secured congressional resources for affordable housing in Oakland.
Increase housing production, expand down-payment assistance and homeownership programs, protect affordable housing and tenants, and speed project approvals.
Supports accessible housing for working people who cannot afford it, with citizenship listed as an eligibility requirement.
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Who's backing them
Endorsements
Experience
1998 to presentRepresentative, US House of Representatives
1996 to 1998State Senator - District 9, State of California
1990 to 1996Assembly Member, California State Assembly
Founder, Community Health Alliance for Neighborhood Growth and Education (CHANGE)
