ANGELICA DUEÑAS, MOTHER, WIFE, ACTIVIST AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZER. BORN AND RAISED IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY. RAISING FIVE CHILDREN WHO ATTEND LAUSD SCHOOLS. BA, IN POLITICAL SCIENCE. MA, IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP. ACCEPTS ZERO CORPORATE MONEY SO SHE IS BEHOLDEN TO THE PEOPLE AND NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS.
We believe that housing is a human RIGHT. No one should ever be priced out of their homes or not be able to afford to have a roof over their head.
The growing disparity between the rich and the poor only proves once again, that those who have money can move into places like the San Fernando Valley, rent or live in new homes or luxury apartment complexes, drive up prices, and displace those who have been living here their entire lives. Gentrification is one of the major issues among constituents here in CA District 29.
Most of these major developments are being approved by our Democratic elected officials without regard to the community in which they're being developed. In addition, these Democratic elected officials are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from these large developers. It is time to make Housing a Human RIGHT, stopping Gentrification, and enacting Universal Rent Control.