We're proud to support pro-housing candidates in Santa Rosa!
Explanations for endorsements are below.
California Congressional District 1
Mike McGuire took some heat early last year for the Senate being the place where good housing legislation died—-then he did something about it. McGuire was instrumental in rallying support for AB 130 and SB 79, and has always been a champion of the active transportation infrastructure needed to make cities work. Furthermore he’s centered housing in his Congressional campaign, including tax credits for renters and increased production. Let’s send Mike to D.C.
California State Assembly District 2
Rogers, the former Santa Rosa city councilmember and mayor, is finishing a strong first term in the Assembly and deserves to be re-elected. Rogers is a local Santa Rosan in a huge district and, while he’s not on the Assembly Housing Committee so he hasn’t authored any major housing bills, he voted “yes” on the legislature’s two biggest YIMBY reforms last year, SB 79 (Wiener) and AB 130. For that reason alone he deserves another term.
California State Assembly District 12
The Santa Rosa YIMBY endorsement committee sat down (virtually) with the three top candidates for the hotly contested District 12 and was most impressed by Corte Madera native, architect, and Councilmember Eli Beckman. Beckman was unequivocal in his support of SB 79 and AB 130 and vowed to lower the cost of housing by providing low-interest state loans to home builders and pursuing condo defect reform. As the only renter in the race, and the only person with housing market expertise (Beckman is the founder of prefab ADU startup HAUS+), Beckman is uniquely suited to transform what has historically been one of California’s most anti-housing districts into a housing policy leader.
