I will work for you in the State Assembly to address California’s core challenges: housing, homelessness, and climate change. As a scientist and neighborhood leader, I will tackle these issues with all my technical training, the urgency they demand, and a commitment to improving your life, your family’s life, and our community.
No one in California today caused the housing crisis. Its origins stretch back to a time when laws were explicitly racist in a way that we wouldn’t tolerate now. Nevertheless, we live with the consequences of those decisions, and we have the opportunity to make new choices that live up to our values. Louis wants to reimagine our built environment because it’s necessary for our future prosperity and is key to our educational, racial, socioeconomic, criminal, and environmental justice priorities. Louis wants to:
Triple home production statewide to reach Gov. Newsom’s 3,000,000 homes goal in 10 years, not 30. If we do this by making sure areas with lots of jobs, buses, and trains also have lots of homes, we will advance many goals as we add more and more affordable housing.
More than 4 out of 5 people who work in AD51 live out of district. Some drive over 50 miles to get here and pay for gas and parking each day. Making it so the people who make our communities vibrant through their labor, energy, and ideas can live near their jobs will cut down on traffic, emissions, and accidents as it furthers socioeconomic justice.