Support first responders, including police, firefighters and dispatchers, with well resourced departments equipped for our critical needs.

Reduce the burden on our overworked police force by expanding alternatives for responding to homelessness, mental health crises, drug addiction, and parking violations, allowing officers to focus on violent and serious crime.

Expand programs like Project Ceasefire, MACRO, and other violence prevention programs that have shown to be effective in reducing crime.

Make our communities safer by investing in beautiful, walkable streets, improved street lighting, and sidewalks to bring more eyes to the community and combat crime.

Partner with schools and the County to ensure strong pathways for youth in the criminal justice system to end the school-to-prison pipeline.

Maintain our fire stations and fully staff our fire department, and make targeted investments to replace old and outdated equipment.

Increase enforcement of vegetation management requirements coupled with greater City support for property owners to reduce the risk of deadly wildfires.

Put OPD on a path out of conservatorship by meeting the court’s requirement for effective and independent civilian oversight, allowing us to move officers away from desk work and back to patrol.

Meet the scale of our housing crisis with a focus on supply, subsidies, and stability.

Invest in affordable housing throughout Oakland in partnership with community land trusts and non-profit affordable developers, paid for by progressive revenue streams including more than 1/2 billion dollars from measure U and measure W.

Increase pathways to homeownership for working families by restoring sufficient funding to a local first time homebuyer program, modeled on the California Dream For All Shared Appreciation Program, to provide downpayment assistance repaid when the home is sold.

Reduce unnecessary bureaucratic barriers to the construction of housing, and expedite affordable housing in our planning approval process.

Ensure tenant protections and rent stabilization to prevent displacement, with special focus on elderly renters, disabled tenants and families with school-aged children.

Pilot mixed income neighborhood housing trusts to provide cross subsidy and socioeconomic integration.

Prevent homelessness before it happens by investing in emergency rental assistance funds.

Integrate missing middle housing in our neighborhoods with appropriate density for our neighborhoods and communities, including more support for backyard cottages (ADUs) and basement and attic conversion.

Reduce homelessness through the creation of permanent supportive housing, and reduce the impact of existing encampments by providing sanitation services, trash removal, and social services.

Prevent harmful cuts to public services like the closure of fire stations by taking alternative actions to reduce spending, like reductions in executive and high level administrative pay, freezing vacant positions, and better managing overtime spending.

Secure progressive revenue streams to stabilize our budget, including better collection on overdue fees and fines, expanding our vacancy tax, and a progressive payroll tax.

Root out inefficiencies and wasteful spending in our budget, such as reviewing excessive use of outside contractors and consultants.

Increase community input into the City’s budget process through participatory budgeting and community outreach.

Reduce City losses to lawsuits over data breaches and privacy violations by ending deferred maintenance on cyber security.