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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Maintain our fire stations and fully staff our fire department, and make targeted investments to replace old and outdated equipment.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.
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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.
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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.
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Initiate a robust City Charter reform process to fix Oakland's dysfunctional system, including better defined and more effective relationships between the Mayor, City Administrator, and Council with the goal of placing a charter amendment on the 2026 ballot.
Invest in our existing robust and independent oversight bodies, including the City Auditor, Ethics Commission, and Community Police Review Agency.
Protect our democracy through the public financing of elections, so that elected officials represent the people, not wealthy special interests.
Strengthen lobbyist regulations and institute reforms to end the revolving door between City Hall and lobbying jobs.
Institute new measures to audit city contracts to ensure that they are being given to the most effective and efficient bidder, not the politically well connected.
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Fund home electrification for tenants and homeowners to reduce emissions, make our homes healthier and safer, and support good union jobs.
Fight to preserve Oakland's ban on natural gas in new construction against attacks from the fossil fuel lobby.
Work with the AC Transit Board to increase bus frequency and reduce wait times, making transit more reliable and increasing ridership.
Make our bus stops safer and more accessible by investing in bus shelters, lighting, and seating.
Support BART expansion in Oakland with the goal of a San Antonio station.
Partner with AVA Community Energy (our local clean power provider) to increase affordable renewable energy adoption and secure matching funding for climate friendly infrastructure investments.
Fight to lower utility costs through improving our local grid and moving towards energy independence.
Keep coal out of the Port of Oakland.
Demand that the Port of Oakland conduct the Health Impact Assessment requested by the Alameda County Health Department regarding proposals to expand Oakland Airport.
Fight pollution in impacted communities that suffer from poor air quality, and demand more abatement and investment from corporate emitters.
Help low income residents access electric bikes and scooters through grants for micromobility.
Support dense, transit oriented infill housing rather than expanding urban growth boundaries that destroy green space.
Support functional and sufficient electric vehicle infrastructure, including through partnerships with homeowners, multi-family buildings, and small businesses to increase access for all communities to charging capacity.
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Continue to improve family-friendly infrastructure with safe places and activities for children, youth, elders, and families to thrive.
Work with District 2 schools to support the current California Community School initiatives to better link local services and resources to our students and families.
Ensure that the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth is best leveraging community partners and city resources to meet the needs of families in our neighborhoods.
Partner with the Oakland Youth Commission to listen to the needs of young people and families to better align our city services and bolster our recreation centers.
Work with the Oakland Thrives joint city-county-school district task force and the City of Oakland Education Partnership Committee to coordinate programming and resources that leverages multiple streams of funding for effective strategies to increase positive youth engagement, gang prevention, and future-focused job pathways.
Activate community efforts to support a growing elder population and ensure senior-friendly services and infrastructure.
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Preserve Oakland’s status as a Sanctuary City and fund immigration defense services for low-income residents.
Defend a woman's right to choose, maintain abortion and reproductive care in Oakland, and partner with organizations like Planned Parenthood to ensure women from states that ban abortion can access care in California.
Protect our queer and trans community in Oakland against attacks by the federal government, and fund education and community spaces for queer youth.
Coordinate with neighboring cities, Alameda County, and the State Attorney General on litigation against illegal and unconstitutional federal action that hurts Oaklanders.