LA Forward's guide to the November ballot is here! It has the progressive recs and thoughtful, detailed analysis on every California (and Los Angeles) proposition that you've come to expect and rely on. Check it out!
The full 32 page guide is available for download at LosAngelesForward.org/…
The short version is below —
Prop 1 – YES
Prop 1 authorizes $4 billion in bonds to fund affordable housing for low-income families, farmworkers, and veterans.
Prop 2 – YES
Prop 2 would authorize $2 billion in bond funding to provide supportive housing homeless Californians with mental illness. This funding was approved in 2016 but is tied up in court. Its use for housing instead of services is being challenged. Almost all mental health advocacy and service groups support Prop 2.
Prop 3 – NO
Prop 3 is an $8 billion bond to fund water infrastructure. It’s nearly double the size of the water bond passed by voters in June of this year. It contains too many projects that are giveaways to Big Agriculture and which may have negative environmental consequences to deserve our support.
Prop 4 – YES
Prop 4 is a $1.5 billion bond measure that would fund improvements to children’s hospitals across the state that handle over 2 million visits per year, treating children regardless of the family’s ability to pay. It would enable these hospitals to upgrade their technology and improve their facilities.
Prop 5 – NO
Prop 5 would expand Prop 13 (1978), which keeps property taxes low for people and businesses who own property for a long time. This initiative, backed by the California Realtors Association, would allow homeowners older than 55 to take their existing property tax level to a new home they buy. Prop 5 would give a tax break to a relatively affluent group (aging homeowners) at the expense of the rest of the state. Prop 13 decimated our state’s schools and services. We shoud shrink, not expand it.
Prop 6 – NO
Prop 6 would overturn the recent increase in gas taxes and vehicle fees which have already funded hundreds of transportation projects. This initiative also requires any future gas tax increase to be approved directly by voters, which will make it difficult to acquire the funding our state needs to build transportation infrastructure.
Prop 7 – YES
Prop 7 would empower the legislature to adopt permanent daylight saving time in the future if/when it becomes permissible under federal law. However, nothing will change in California during the meantime.
Prop 8 – YES
Prop 8 would require dialysis centers, which have become infamous for profiteering, to refund patients or insurers for revenues that exceed 115% of the costs associated with patient care or healthcare improvements.
Prop 10 – YES
Prop 10 would make it possible for California cities to strengthen rent control by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which severely restricts cities and counties’ authority to expand or amending rent control laws. While a badly-designed rent control ordinance can have negative consequences, a well-designed can enormously benefit struggling, vulnerable renters.
Prop 11 – NO
Prop 11 would allow ambulance providers to require workers to remain on-call during meal and rest breaks, overturning a California Supreme Court decision.
Prop 12 – YES
Prop 12 is an animal welfare measure that would set the minimum floor space for pigs at 24 square feet, calves at 43 square feet, and hens at one square foot.
LA County Measure W – YES
Measure W would fund rainwater capture, cleaning, and storage projects to grow our local water supply by imposing a small tax on the square footage of a property owner’s land which is impermeable (i.e. paved driveways and concrete patios that water can’t filter through).
LA City Measure B – YES
Measure B would amend the City’s charter to permit Los Angeles to establish a public bank; it would not mandate such a bank’s creation.
LA City Measure E and LAUSD Measure EE – YES
Measure E would make the City’s primary election the same date as the State’s primary election. This is necessary due to a recent change in the State’s primary from June to March. Measure EE is the same thing for LAUSD elections.
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