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Recommendations for Liberals, Progressives, Radicals, & Revolutionaries

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The Strategy Center supports the initiative process and urges everyone to vote tomorrow. We have focused on the ballot initiatives we understand the most—With Our Highest Priority Voting Yes on Proposition 10. We are appalled at the deceptive advertising of the landlord lobby and send big props to the Yes on 10 Coalition of which we are a part. We urge our friends to look to the Voter Guides of CHIRLA, ACLU, Advancement Project, and L.A. Progressive for more extensive recommendations. We are deeply concerned about the national elections and urge everyone to stand up against the right in the electoral arena and appreciate the work of those who have made this their priority.

Prop 1

 

Yes

Authorizes bonds to fund specified housing assistance programs. Legislative statute. Authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs for low-income residents, veterans, farm workers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill, and transit-oriented housing.

Prop 2

Yes

Authorizes bonds to fund existing housing program for individuals with mental illness. Legislative statute. Amends mental health services act to fund no place like home program, which finances housing for individuals with mental illness. Ratifies existing law establishing the no place like home program. Fiscal impact: allows the state to use up to $140 million per year of county mental health funds to repay up to $2 billion in bonds. These bonds would fund housing for those with mental illness who are homeless.

Prop 5

No

Changes requirements for certain property owners to transfer their property tax base to replacement property. Initiative constitutional amendment and statute. Removes certain transfer requirements for homeowners over 55, severely disabled homeowners, and contaminated or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal impact: schools and local governments each would lose over $100 million in annual property taxes early on, growing to about $1 billion per year. Similar increase in state costs to backfill school property tax losses.

Prop 6

No

Eliminates certain road repair and transportation funding. Requires certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees be approved by the electorate. Initiative constitutional amendment. Repeals a 2017 transportation law’s taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation. Fiscal impact: reduced ongoing revenues of $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle taxes that mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs.

Prop 10

Yes

Expands local governments’ authority to enact rent control on residential property. Initiative statute. Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal impact: potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions by local communities, revenue losses could be less or considerably more.

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