Orange County

Orange County

Vote pro-housing in the upcoming races in Orange County on November 5, 2024

Cheat Sheet

Explanations for endorsements are below.

California State Assembly

Sharon Quirk-Silva

California Ballot Propositions

Yes on Prop 5

⛔️ No on Prop 33

Huntington Beach City Council

Dan Kalmick

Natalie Moser

Endorsement Explanations

California State Assembly

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CA State Assembly District 67

Sharon Quirk-Silva

From her years as a public school teacher, Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva has seen the impacts of housing instability and homelessness on kids and families. As the parent of young adults, she knows the challenge of launching them into independence when there is no affordable place for young professionals just starting out. These experiences have made Sharon Quirk-Silva a true champion for housing! She states:

I’m proud of my voting record to create more housing, while acknowledging much more needs to be done. We need a variety of different types of housing, to serve the needs of California’s different families, and different solutions to create them. Addressing California’s statewide housing crises is simply too important to do anything less.

California Ballot Propositions

Yes on Prop 5

✅ Yes

Yes on Prop 5

We support Prop 5 because we support more funding for affordable housing. Prop 5 would make it easier for local governments to raise money for affordable housing by allowing bonds to pass with 55% of the vote. This will make it easier for the state legislature to pass bills that fund housing and critical public infrastructure. We wholeheartedly support this effort.

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No on 33

⛔️ No

No on Prop 33

We oppose Prop 33 because it would allow NIMBY cities to completely block new housing, driving up the cost of housing for everyone over the long term.

Prop 33 would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 1995 state law that generally prevents local governments from limiting what landlords can charge new tenants when they first move in. It also prevents cities from limiting rent increases that existing tenants can be charged in housing built on or after Feb. 1, 1995.

YIMBY Action has supported measures that would curb dramatic year-over-year increases in rent, such as the 2019 anti-rent gouging measure in the CA Legislature (AB 1482). But Prop 33 is poorly written and will allow wealthy cities to block new affordable homes from being built.

Prop 33 blocks the state from putting any reasonable checks on local rent control policies, allowing local governments to “maintain, enact or expand residential rent control.” This is a recipe for systemic denial of new housing because wealthy cities constantly look for ways to avoid building more homes. We can already see what anti-housing jurisdictions are planning, for example Former Huntington Beach Mayor Tony Strickland has already openly stated that he’s excited for this measure because it will allow them to block new homes.

We oppose Prop 33 because it is poorly written and will give wealthy communities a powerful tool to block housing all income levels.

Huntington Beach City Council

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Huntington Beach City Council

Dan Kalmick

Dan brings years of experience from being a part of the planning comission for eight years before being elected to the Huntington Beach City Council in 2020. He has been a champion of the city's housing plan and has pushed the city council majority as well as the city attorney to follow state housing law. He is not afraid to stand up for housing and continues to do so weekly in city council chambers and beyond.

Natalie Moser 2024

Huntington Beach City Council

Natalie Moser

We are backing Natalie because she has a proven track record of advocating for the unhoused and supporting permanent supportive housing. “By changing the planning process from conventional zoning to form based code, creating a detailed community vision, writing prescriptive regulations for what we want instead of what we don’t want built, and only then enabling a by-right process can we safely remove the discretionary review process and still retain local control and an increased housing supply.” Natalie is committed to building diverse communities. “Our working families and young people need a way to live and work in our city and are currently priced out of the market. Diversity of people, incomes, and backgrounds will make for a more vibrant city. … Diverse communities require a diversity of building types.”

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