Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, faces allegations that she groped and harassed legislative staffers. (California Assembly)
On Thursday, March 22, Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia sat down with KQED’s The California Report for an extensive interview about allegations she sexually assaulted and harassed legislative staff members.
Garcia and her allies have been pushing back against the allegations, saying political opponents started a campaign to discredit her soon after she emerged as a leader in the state Capitol’s #MeToo movement.
The interview was conducted in her district of Bell Gardens.
KQED: You have been very quiet. Some would say uncharacteristically so. Tell us why you decided not to talk to the press the past few months.
GARCIA: You know I’ve just been trying to be respectful of the investigation and the process and there’s an ongoing investigation. I can’t really talk about that I can’t talk about personnel issues. And so I’ve just been sitting back letting people do their job and waiting to be cleared.
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KQED: One of the things that came up in this investigation are the allegations against you I should say is this idea that you somehow sexually assaulted someone physically. Did you ever sexually assault anyone?
GARCIA: I’ve never assaulted anyone physically.
KQED: Sexual or otherwise.
GARCIA: Sexual or otherwise. I try to treat everyone with dignity and respect. Similar to how I want to be treated.
KQED: So this one gentleman says that you tried to grab his butt reached for his crotch, to be graphic about it. You never did that.
GARCIA: Never.
KQED: There’s another allegation that you played or encouraged people to play spin the bottle in a hotel room. Did you ever encourage anyone to play such a game?
GARCIA: I’ve never encouraged anyone to play spin the bottle and I’ve actually never played spin the bottle myself.
KQED: Never in your life.
GARCIA: Never.
KQED: You’re not missing much…
GARCIA: Thanks (laughter)
KQED: …to be perfectly honest.
One of the other things that has come up in this… These accusations against you that you are an alcoholic or that you have some type of alcohol problem. Dan Gilleon, the attorney for the people who brought the claims against you, has not only told me that he believes you have an alcohol problem, and offered photographs to suggest that you do, but he said so very publicly. How do you respond to this idea that you have an alcohol problem?
GARCIA: First and foremost I want to be clear that alcoholism is a serious disease and we need to be working and giving support to folks who are ready to deal with that. It’s something that is in my family as well it’s personal to me. And so there’s respect there.
And I’m not an alcoholic, I drink, yes. There’s a culture of drinking in the Capitol and I’ve definitely participated in that. But I don’t think that makes you an alcoholic. But you know all I have to say is if I thought I was an alcoholic I would have already said that the same way I’m saying, ‘yes I drink.’
KQED: One of the things that these detractors have come out and said is that you had a keg in your office and that this keg is somehow evidence that you have a drinking problem. How do you respond to that?
GARCIA: I think that’s a similar saying ‘Do I have beer in my fridge and so I’m am alcoholic?’ Yes I have beer in my fridge. Yes. At some point I’ve had a keg at my office. A lot of us do. It’s part of the culture of socializing after the way business gets done. I think we can have a discussion about that and discuss whether or not that’s appropriate. But because you have alcohol or you are in the possession of alcohol doesn’t make you an alcoholic. I think that’s a really gross generalization.
KQED: The other issue that came up was that you are someone who is very intense. You’re very intense to work for. You demand a lot from your employees and that you had them do things like pick up your dogs or household items that shouldn’t necessarily fall under the spectrum of what it means to work for a state representative. How do you respond to that?
GARCIA: I’ve been honest from the beginning and I put out a public statement that I do demand a lot of my staff. I have a lot of needs in my community. We have issues with lead. We have issues with arsenic. We have issues with corruption. We have a community that has been ignored for a long time. We have a lot of folks that need help with their Medi-Cal. They need help with the DMV, they need help with veterans issues. And so we are busy.
We also are a district that hasn’t been very engaged, and so it’s been my goal to help educate, empower and engage my constituents. And so we’re out there on the grounds constantly trying to interact with my constituents, trying to make sure that they know we’re here for them. But also that they’re part of this and I need them to be engaged. And that’s how we’re going to become better leaders together.
And so it is a demanding job that I have and I try to be fair. I try to provide support for my staff out there. They need breaks, we give it to them. So I think that’s not anything I’ve ever hidden. I work hard. I do a lot on a daily basis, whether it’s for my district, whether it’s for the women’s caucus, whether it’s on the policies that I’m pushing forward. You know I’m not shy. I pick fights on a regular basis to do the right thing looking for justice. And so I think that’s fair. That’s not a crime.
KQED: Is it true though that you did have staff do you things that would be considered domestic chores or anything… You’re shaking your head no.
GARCIA: No. We tried really hard to make sure that we have separation out there. Are there times where we’re in binds? Yeah there’s been times when I’m in a bind and I was like ‘I need you to do this. Can you help me out? You want to volunteer to help me out?’ And staff will do it. I think all of us as members do that when we’re out there working from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and it’s like, ‘Shoot you know what my dog sitter just canceled. Can you put the dog in the yard? Do you mind? They always have the option to say ‘no,’ including to the point where it wasn’t a regular thing and often times I’d come home and there’d be a mess here with the dogs. But I’ve had a dog sitter most years, and so it’s just those rare moments where my dog sitter’s not available.
I think that’s the only thing in there that I would say that… Am I demanding? Yes. At some point have I asked someone to get me out of a bind? Yes. I think we all do that on occasion. But it’s always been on a voluntary basis and it’s been very minimal. To the point where my mom always jokes that she’s my staff because I’m always asking my parents to run my personal errands for me.
KQED: So this wasn’t a requirement or a condition of employment, as it’s been presented to me?
GARCIA: Definitely not. And it was always a ‘volunteer if you wanted’ and it was a very rare occasion.
KQED: The other thing I heard that I think might be concerning for some people both in the Capitol and perhaps in your district is this idea that you use slurs, or something other than respectful words to describe the former speaker who is gay. Did you ever use slurs like “faggot” or “homo”? Did you ever say anything like that to your staff?
GARCIA: Oh I will be clear. There’s no one in politics that doesn’t talk about some of the peers we work with, and we use candid language. And so along the way I’ve used candid language. I curse. I mean I’ve been vocal about some of my favorite words, and I don’t know if I can say them on the radio, are “shit” and “fuck.”
You know I think if I would see staff who didn’t want to engage in that conversation, I would stop, but they never seemed to have any problem with it. But even then it’s pretty limited, but these are in places where you think you’re in a safe space and you could speak your mind and be vocal.
I don’t use the word ‘faggot.’ It’s not in my vocabulary. Have I at some point used the word ‘homo’? Yeah I’ve used that word ‘homo.’ I don’t know that I’ve used it in derogatory context. I think you need to think about the context in which it was used. But anything can be taken out of context clearly here in this situation.
KQED: Well, I bring that up because I grew up in a neighborhood where – the word “homo” for example, people still say “no homo” as a way to express their identities of masculinity. And as I was telling you before we started, this neighborhood where we’re located right now is very similar to my neighborhood. The reason I’m asking you this though, is there’s what has been presented to me is this question of whether these words were used in a professional setting, and whether they made people uncomfortable. So did you ever use that to describe the speaker, the word “homo?”
GARCIA: I can’t remember but I wouldn’t be surprised if I used that word. Right? So I think that that’s fair. I think terms like ‘faggot’ are period derogatory. There’s no good way to use that word. I think a term like ‘homo’ can also be derogatory, right? I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m an angel. Was I using those as derogatory terms? No. It’s almost like I would say I’m a brown person sometimes.
Am I perfect? I think all of us at some point have biases, but I try to be open and accepting of all communities including the LGBT community and I think you could look at my voting record, look at the advocacy I’ve been doing well before I was elected in conjunction not just with the LGBT community, but with communities that have been marginalized.
KQED: If you didn’t commit these — this act of sexual assault — and to be very clear you’ve been a leader in the #MeToo movement in Sacramento – but if you didn’t commit these acts of sexual harassment and sexual assault, why do you think people are saying this against you? You surely have had the time to think about why this is happening. What reason do you give for it?
GARCIA: I think this is about shutting me up. Making sure that my advocacy stops. Making sure that I don’t ensure that my community has a voice. And it’s not just shutting me up, or shutting people like me up. Whether it’s on the #MeToo movement, whether it’s on environmental justice or whatever injustices that are out there, I have been very vocal. I’m not afraid to take on fights. I do the work that other people don’t want to do. I think you know I’ve been very critical. I want to make sure we have a high standard. I want to make sure we’re running with ethics. I have been fighting against corruption. I think along the way my work speaks for itself and why I’ve accumulated some enemies. But I think more than anything, over the last few years, I’ve started to be effective. I’ve started to get things done.
I started to make sure that when we talk about the environmental movement, I’m not just talking about the pristine mountains and the good ocean, but I’m talking about the health issues that communities like mine are dealing with. Communities that have been treated like wastelands for all my life. For the first time we’re going to start to identify those hotspots and start to change that situation. I started to bring attention to the chromium 6 issue and how that poisons us on a regular basis. What does that mean? That means that some of these businesses may be in danger. That means that some of these jobs that make us sick might go away. And we’ve been told that I have to pick between bad jobs that make me sick, but pay me. And what I’m saying is I shouldn’t have to pick between my health and my job.
Why can’t I have some good green jobs like the rest of the communities that are out there?
Why do I have to settle for shit?
And so I’m starting to finally move the pendulum in a direction for communities that have been ignored. And this is about making sure I don’t have any more advocacy. That I don’t have any more voice. And it sends a message to people that I have mentored. I spend a lot of time trying to create advocates in the community. That’s my legacy. To make sure they’re told ‘if you rise up and you speak up this is going to happen you. So sit down and don’t say anything.’
And so it’s happening right now, because what’s happening is that I’m home. I’m being respectful of the process. These people are trying to extend the timeline. The Assembly is taking it seriously. But in the meantime I’m not doing work. I’m not fighting on Exide. We have real issues there to clean that up.
I’m not fighting on the lead and paint companies as they’re trying to make the consumers pay for their bad doings. I am not working on the #MeToo movement. I’m not working to make sure we have safer work environments. I’m not working to get rid of the the tax on tampons. I’m not working to make sure our kids are safer. There’s a lot of things that I’m not working on.
And then on top of it all, my community and our regular day-to-day interaction where we try to empower them and engage them and then more importantly celebrate them, isn’t happening. Right? I didn’t have my “Pride of the 58 Gala.” This area is dubbed ‘the corridor of corruption,’ it’s known for its bad air quality. But it has a lot of good people and we celebrate them on a monthly basis. We have a gala for them, and that didn’t happen now. I didn’t get to participate in Woman of the Year and celebrate the heroes of our communities. I didn’t get to do my Cesar Chavez – Larry Elong celebration where we celebrate the two cultures coming together and how important that’s been to our communities. I don’t get to do my walk and talks. We go out there and I knock on doors. I bring services to my constituents. I don’t get to do any of that. And so I think more than anything my constituents are confused. They don’t know if they can show up to my office for services that they need.
Let me be clear, offices are open whether or not I’m there and we’re there for constituent services.
But it’s really a disservice to my constituents. It’s a disservice to the works I work with, and to the good work that needs to be done for these communities. And to me this is about shutting me up. And shutting people like me up. And I will say this is not about me. I hope that folks out there who have been marginalized who have felt empowered the last few years continue to do the good work and we continue to fight and have that voice.
KQED: Let’s talk a little bit about how you feel that you’ve been silenced. Why is it that you decided not to continue your work in the Legislature, and how has it affected your campaign for re-election?
GARCIA: If we were in any other private setting — I was a teacher for 13 years and that’s usually my examples — I would have been put on administrative leave immediately, because first and foremost you want to make sure that everyone’s safe. And then once we get the facts together and we have a conclusion they make decisions. So for me it just felt like I should be treated the same as anyone else who’s not in this job. And all the other industries. And so for me it just made sense that I was going to put myself on a leave. No one asked me to do it. I didn’t expect this to go on this long. You know, people initially told me this will take a couple of weeks. It’s almost two months now.
And so the reality has changed and it is frustrating that I’m not working. That I’m not being the voice that I’m used to being out there, that I’m having to be silenced this way. It means that people are winning and when I’m silenced. But I felt it was the right thing to do. I think at this point, we have to have that discussion of ‘Is this the best way to proceed? Is it ok to have half a million people without representation? Is it ok not to have these issues, you know, brought up in the Capitol, whether it’s clean air issues?’
No one’s going to make sure my bills are being properly implemented out there, and so I don’t get to participate in that. So that’s my legacy and it is frustrating because it’s my legacy but it’s also the clean air that I want to breathe one day. It’s the lack of lead that I want to have in my community so that kids are able to learn and grow. We know all that lead around us doesn’t allow us to learn. And then we show up at school and we’re behind, and we have these developmental issues because of the environment we grew up in. I would like that to end.
KQED: Let’s go back to the investigation. You said it was going to be a few weeks, you were told apparently it was going to be a few weeks. It is now a few months. I’ve been told through my sources — and I don’t know if this is where you heard — that it’s going to be at least another six weeks. Do you have any idea how long this is going to continue?
GARCIA: This has a process, right?
I want to be clear. It’s not that there’s not a process here. But the timeline that it takes the investigator to do their job — where there’s no guarantees. For lots of reasons. But it’s hard on her because when you have anonymous sources that are refusing to come forward to speak to her in a confidential manner, she’s out there running in circles trying to figure out how to decide if these claims are real or not and how to do her job. When you have anonymous sources that are taking months to even respond to something — you have anonymous sources that are choosing to, you know, dribble out information. Again most of these are anonymous sources. Every time, she’s like, well I have to include this somehow, and it adds time. And so I feel confident that she’s trying to do her job as quickly as possible.
KQED: It sounds like you’re almost empathetic with her.
GARCIA: No, it’s not empathetic. It’s respectful. It’s respectful. And I think she’s taking her job seriously. I take this seriously as well. I feel like people are playing a game and they’re not taking it seriously, and this game is at the expense of my constituency and advocacy, and advocacy groups that need my voice out there.
KQED: One thing, you just reminded me, when you were telling me about “the dribble,” was that an anonymous source actually sent me through Signal copies of texts that you had that appear to be flirty. Did you ever send flirty texts?
GARCIA: Have you sent flirty texts? I think most of us have at some point. It’s not a crime. It’s not a crime and it’s something that happens in all kinds of settings.
KQED: Getting back to this idea that you’re being silenced. How is this affecting your run for re-election? Are you campaigning during this time or are you showing up at events in your community? You said that there were a whole host of events you couldn’t go to. Why can’t you still show up for them as a private citizen?
GARCIA: I can show up to things as a private citizen, but when I show up I’m not just a private citizen. Everyone knows who I am. I am Cristina Garcia, a state assemblymember that’s worked really hard to have a footprint in this community. And I think that’s naïve to think I could just show up. And people expect me to show up and they want me to have that voice out there, right? But I till have a title no matter what, and a leave is a leave, and I’m being respectful of that. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have a campaign to run. I do. I have an election in June and I have to get through that.
KQED: Are you fundraising?
GARCIA: I haven’t been fundraising. You know I’ve been making decisions based on this timeline that this will be over in a timely manner. And because I feel that we all deserve answers but at some point you know time is running out and I’m going to be forced to get out there. I’m going to be forced to campaign. I’m going to be forced to fundraise, and I’m going to be forced to tell folks ‘Take the plunge with me, without answers. Not because I don’t want you to have them, but that’s out of my control. I’d like to give you all the answers if possible, but I’m allowing the investigator to do their job.’
And again I have been responsive, I have been participating in anything that they have asked me to, which has been limited actually. And these anonymous sources have refused to come forward. And so how does she do her job? When do we say “enough” with the anonymous sources? We need some real dates and some real situations and some names. How am I supposed to defend myself to anonymous sources?
Let me also be clear — as an elected official, as a public figure — I can’t even use like ‘Oh I’m going to sue someone.’ People have asked me ‘Why haven’t you sued anyone?’ I say well, they’re anonymous. And the standard for these lawsuits is really hard for a public official. I really can’t win that. But I could be sued, and I can lose.
KQED: You would have to be able to prove that things beyond a reasonable doubt were not only demonstrably false, but designed to hurt you. That’s a very high standard like you were saying.
Not that I per se agree with this line of thinking, but I have heard many “men’s rights activists” say a lot of the same things that you’re saying right now. That when people make claims against alleged sexual harassers or alleged sexual assaulters, that many of these claims are allowed to be anonymous to protect the victim. That the investigation takes a long time and that this disrupts life for a long, long time. I wonder if you see any bit of irony.
GARCIA: I don’t see any irony. I mean I have said constantly that everything should be taken seriously and the investigators should do their job. That’s why I’ve just been sitting back and you know letting her do her job and I haven’t been attending anything and I’ve been quiet. And so I think there’s no irony. I, you know, I’m being consistent from the beginning to the end of that decision.
KQED: I imagine it must be frustrating.
GARCIA: Yeah you definitely get frustrated. I mostly get frustrated that I don’t get to get out there and do the work that I was going to do. I have a package of bills that I didn’t get to introduce, issues that I think are important for us to be discussing out there that other people are not discussing. Some of the bills I was going to introduce thankfully got picked up by other members. But there’s issues that are still out there that no one’s talking about.
For example I’ve been working on stealthing. A crime, trying to make a crime to remove a condom without permission. No one’s working on that. I’ve been working on…
KQED: You’re talking about a condom during the intercourse.
GARCIA: During intercourse, yes. I’ve been working on trying to remove the tax on tampons. No one’s working on that. I’ve been working on trying to get money to turn brownfields — these are contaminated fields that are just sitting there, blighting communities — finding money to try to clean them up to become open spaces and parks. In communities like mine that’s a big deal. I have a lot of brownfields but I’m really park poor. It’s work I’m not doing now.
I’ve been trying to do work for my cities. They have needs, specifically related to budget and bills that I can’t work on. I was going to be working on abandoned wells — oil wells — and how do we make sure that they’re being cleaned up properly and that they’re not making us sick anymore. That’s work that no one’s doing now.
For my constituents who are out there, I think that they should know that my office is open for any services that they need. And that they should be vocal about what they want and what they want from this process, and make that clear to the Legislature and to the public. They should be clear about the burden that’s being put on them by individuals who are playing a game. And what it means to not have an advocate out there working for them.
We are getting ready to work on the budget, and I’m not there to make sure my district gets their piece of the pie. And I think at some point, while I’ve been out here trying to sit back, we need to think about ‘is it fair that my district keeps missing out on these opportunities to get their fair share of the pie?’ Or ‘do we have to find other ways to make sure that they get what they need, and there’s an advocate for them?’
There are women running for office right now that I would normally be helping. You know, we have opportunities to grow the Women’s Caucus. We’re only at 22 percent in the Legislature. Those are women that I can’t fundraise for, that I can’t advocate for. There are real consequences to this. Know that I’m taking this seriously. I’m eager to get back to work.
I’m here today to cooperate. I am confident I’m going to be cleared at the end of this. It’s just a matter of when that happens and I hope it’s sooner than later. And I’m not confident because there’s any sort of special treatment to me. I think I’ve proven through my actions that we should have a higher standard and I’m holding myself to that standard. But I’m confident because I’m innocent. I didn’t do these things. I treat people with dignity every day.
And so, you know, I am guilty of having a big mouth. Being outspoken and speaking truth. And that pisses off a lot of people. And it’s about power. And maybe I’m finally starting to get things done and that power structure is being disturbed, and they’re going to do everything they can to make sure things stay the way they are. And communities like mine don’t get their piece of the pie. And I’m going to fight. I’m going to fight. It is not about me, it’s about my community and the need to have the work I’ve been doing. And so I’m going to fight hard and I hope folks out there fight with me.
KQED: One last question about this, this kind of waiting period. Did Democrats ask you not to come to the convention in San Diego this year, or did you decide not to go?
GARCIA: No. No one has asked me anything. This is a decision I have made for myself. And again, I take this seriously and I’m trying to hold myself to the standard that we would in any other setting that’s not this one.
I think the irony is that as an elected official, as an assemblymember, a member of the California Legislature, we are the sixth biggest economy. We have a lot of power. And things are usually unbalanced on our behalf. And that’s something I’ve always been very aware of. That power. And I always try to use that power to make sure I empower others around me and I tell them, ‘You shouldn’t have to know an assemblymember for the system to work for you. But let’s take advantage of it when needed.’
In these situations, the balance is tipped the other way. Where anonymous sources and special interests, people that are playing the game, can really silence an individual and take away power from a community like this.
And normally we wouldn’t see this, but they’re able to take something, make it a tool through innuendos, through allegations that are false, through being anonymous, through trying to paint whatever picture they want. And I can’t defend myself because I’m not going to open myself up to that liability. I just have to sit back and let the investigation take its course. No matter how long that is. And so that’s the irony of the situation here. This is about power, and they’ve done a good job, because at least temporarily my power has been taken away and I’ve been silenced. And my advocacy isn’t happening.
KQED: So based on the conversation we’ve had today, I kind of imagine you getting on a motorcycle and taking revenge “Kill Bill” style when you’re reinstated. That doesn’t seem doable, at least legally. How are you going to handle it moving forward? And are you keeping names right now of the people who supported you and didn’t in Sacramento?
GARCIA: None of that matters. I have to have an open door and I have to work with everyone.
You don’t forget — but the best revenge is getting back there and continuing the good work that I’m doing, on behalf of women, on behalf of working class communities, on behalf of communities like mine that have been wastelands for all my life. And in getting those good jobs in my community and getting rid of the dirty jobs. That’s the best revenge. And so when I get back, I could spend my time trying to get back at people, or I can spend my energy and my power on trying to get my community what they need and being the voice that I’ve always been. And so that’s going to take discipline because yeah I’m human and sometimes — you know you want to have those moments — but it doesn’t get me anything.
It doesn’t get me anything, and it’s squandering an opportunity to do the good work for my community, to make sure I change the culture here. To make sure I have more ethical local elected officials. To make sure I have cleaner air and have clean water. To make sure I have a constituency that knows how to navigate the system and are able to advocate for themselves, and are able to work with us on a day-to-day basis to get what they need. To make sure I’m getting a fair share of the budget down here on a regular basis with things that I need. That’s the best revenge.
Making sure that my voice and the voice of other advocates like me is out there and it gets stronger. And I think that’s a much better use of my time out there, and so if I’m making plans, my plans are about how am I going to get my bills done, and how am I going to make sure that the good work that needs to be done continues.
KQED: Do you think — you’re assuming that you do get to go back. So you assume that this this, you believe that this investigation is not going to produce anything that’s going to require you to either resign or be sidelined further?
GARCIA: I — again I have — I am confident in the results because I know I’m innocent.
KQED: Do you go back to Sacramento a weaker Cristina Garcia because of this?
GARCIA: These moments change you. You don’t have to go back a weaker Cristina Garcia, you go back a smarter Cristina Garcia.
You take advantage of the situation, and you learn and you grow and you do better. But I’m scrappy. If you are from a community like this, if you’re a woman of color and you’ve risen to any ranks of power, you have had to figure it out and overcome barriers by being innovative about it.
And so I just have to learn some new tricks, and so I don’t think that this weakens me. I think the situation has taught me some new tricks. It has also exposed some allies and some enemies out there that maybe I wasn’t aware of, and having that information makes me smarter also, and stronger.
KQED: Assemblymember, is there anything else I should ask her or that you want to cover? Or is there anything that you didn’t think was fair that I asked?
GARCIA: No no no. Just, you know, this process needs to get done because the real injustice here is that my community doesn’t have a voice and I don’t get to be the advocate that they elected me to be. And so I hope that the people that are playing these games take this seriously like I have, and help move this investigation along.
KQED [to Leo Briones, Garcia’s spokesman]: Leo is there anything else you think should be covered?
BRIONES: No, I think we’re good.
KQED: I just want to make sure I give you all ample opportunity. You want to take five minutes and that way y’all can think about it?
BRIONES AND GARCIA: No, no.
KQED: OK. Assembly Member Garcia, thank you so much for joining us.
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That information is publicly available on the \u003ca href=\"https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business\">Secretary of State’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durazo’s bill would add an additional disclosure requirement: The names and home or business addresses of “beneficial owners” — defined as anyone who “exercises substantial control” or owns at least 25% of a company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11983000,news_11945744,news_11984610\" label=\"Related Stories\"]As Durazo \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257789?t=1504&f=9894c3d5281deb91c62d4cf1b0cd7321\">explained at a recent Senate committee hearing\u003c/a>, the bill is “simply adding one line on the forms that anybody fills out…It’s not asking for any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee, tasked with putting a fiscal price tag on pending legislation, said implementing the bill would cost the state $9.3 million in its first year and nearly $3 million every year after that. The majority of those ongoing expenses would go toward paying the estimated 24 state employees that Secretary of State analysts say are needed to make the bill work. That would represent \u003ca href=\"https://admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov/reports/2024/bus-filing-processing-time-report-march-2024.pdf\">roughly 10% of the agency’s workforce \u003c/a>that now processes business filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though $9 million is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">couch cushion change by California budgetary standards\u003c/a>, the bill’s supporters say the number mystifies them. For a 2020 bill requiring the Secretary of State to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3075\">add a different question to the same form\u003c/a>, the fiscal estimate was a mere $561,000 in the first year and $79,000 thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of a good governance bill that will fail because of bad governance,” said Jyotswaroop Bawa with the progressive nonprofit Rise Economy, which is sponsoring the bill. “By not collecting beneficial owner information, the Secretary of State’s office is allowing chaos to continue with impunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bawa and other supporters of the bill say publishing ownership information will make it easier for tenants, workers and regulators to track down scofflaw landlords and other business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill, which include state and local landlord groups, the California Association of Realtors and the California Chamber of Commerce, argue that it is already easy enough to contact a business and that disclosing the identities of individual owners would violate their privacy and enable harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Secretary of State’s office refused to break down sky-high estimate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once a bill receives a big cost estimate, it’s put in a list known\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\"> as the “suspense file.”\u003c/a> Then, in marathon sessions held twice a year, the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees rapidly tick through every bill on that list, passing some along and killing others without debate or a public vote. The first legislative culling of the year is set for mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its seven-digit cost estimate, Bawa said she worries SB 1201 will be the latest victim of “death by price tag,” especially when the state is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">facing a multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a>. And it wouldn’t be the first time this idea has died a quiet procedural death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a bill that would have required companies to unveil their human owners when filing business records with the state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1199\">didn’t get a hearing\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB889\">revived attempt\u003c/a> the next year failed in the Senate after a majority on a key committee \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/\">declined to cast a vote “yes” or “no” but simply abstained\u003c/a>. Last year, a third try succumbed to the suspense file after the bill was dinged with a $9 million cost estimate from the Secretary of State’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coming up with this year’s figure, the Senate \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/202320240SB1201_Senate-Appropriations.pdf\">committee’s fiscal analysis\u003c/a> said it got the estimates from the Secretary of State. Itemized totals include $3 million in “IT project costs” and more than $2 million in “mailing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Secretary of State’s office refused to answer specific questions from CalMatters about the bill’s cost estimate but instead responded by email with an unsigned statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of the Secretary of State continues to be involved in deliberations and ongoing discussions with legislative staff related to SB 1201. In furtherance of this process, we must respectfully decline to publicly comment on the substantive or fiscal issues associated with the bill at this early point in the legislative process,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the office “did not provide context” for its fiscal breakdown, the committee analysis says, the Secretary of State expressed more detailed concerns over last year’s version of the bill. Back then, the office warned that investigating and verifying the ownership information through a modified form would be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, as currently written, does not require the Secretary of State to perform that due diligence, which led an earlier Senate committee to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1201#\">raise concerns about the bill’s effectiveness.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We could do it for $200’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Corporations and limited liability companies exist in part to ensure that investors in a company aren’t held directly legally responsible for the things that that company does or doesn’t do. If a company maintains unsafe conditions at a rental property, a tenant can sue the company itself, seeking damages from the corporate treasury but not from the business owner’s personal checking account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicizing an owner’s name and address, then, doesn’t serve an obvious legal purpose, said Debra Carlton, a spokesperson for the California Apartment Association. Landlords can always be reached through the property management companies they employ. Lawsuits can always be served to a company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/service-process\">listed representative.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the corporate veil is that you go after the corporation’s assets” in a lawsuit, said Carlton, but it doesn’t prevent landlords from getting sued. “You see lawsuits every day being brought against the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Silver, a lawyer who represents cities and counties in substandard housing cases, agreed that Durazo’s bill isn’t likely to make his work easier going after negligent landlords. It’s often quicker to serve court papers to a corporation or LLC than “an individual slumlord” who doesn’t have a paper trail or web presence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a path that leads you from the corporate name to the people who actually own it, ultimately, and we will find them and hold them responsible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are times when it’s crucial to track down a human business owner quickly, long before matters end up at court, said Larry Brooks, who runs the residential lead prevention program for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers a case in 2022 when twin toddlers were found living in an old apartment with flaking paint. Lead levels in their blood were so high the children were immediately hospitalized. The twins’ parents, undocumented immigrants, initially refused to put Brooks and his team in touch with the building’s property management company, fearing eviction or deportation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Brooks began hunting on his own. He turned first to the county assessor’s office to find the property owner’s name, then plugged that name into the Secretary of State’s database. The corporate documents there only listed a street address. Brooks struggled to connect that address with a phone number or email address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, a county nurse persuaded the twins’ mother to share the phone number of a Sacramento-based property management company. That company put Brooks in touch with the owner, a corporation in Texas, he said. The entire process took two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that there were some state or federal law that required every corporate landlord to have a local contact,” said Brooks, who has also advised Human Impact Partners, a public health nonprofit that supports Durazo’s bill. “In a situation like with the twins, where the blood lead levels were so high they were life-threatening, and the kids had to be rushed to the hospital, you want to be able to call somebody immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said he couldn’t share additional information about the children or the landlord, citing medical privacy laws and pending litigation. CalMatters was unable to verify the details of the story independently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it easier to find the name and address of a business owner would provide a treasure trove of data for tenant rights organizations, housing researchers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-24/rental-housing-shell-companies-landlords\">investigative reporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would also be a boon for would-be harassers and activists, said Carlton. “I can’t figure out what their true purpose is,” she said of the bill’s sponsors. “They want to shame people publicly, maybe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carlton was also puzzled by the $9 million cost estimate: “I almost felt like saying, ‘We could do it,’” she said. “We could do it for $200.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A legislative effort to force LLCs and corporations to publicly disclose their owners publicly faces a surprising obstacle: A massive cost estimate from the Secretary of State.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715026267,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1673},"headData":{"title":"Who Owns the Apartment Next Door? California Agency Says it Will Take Millions to Find Out | KQED","description":"A legislative effort to force LLCs and corporations to publicly disclose their owners publicly faces a surprising obstacle: A massive cost estimate from the Secretary of State.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Who Owns the Apartment Next Door? California Agency Says it Will Take Millions to Find Out","datePublished":"2024-05-06T19:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-06T20:11:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Ben Christopher, CalMatters","nprStoryId":"kqed-11985069","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985069/who-owns-the-apartment-next-door-california-agency-says-it-will-take-millions-to-find-out","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Who is the flesh-and-blood landlord with a city-spanning portfolio of apartments concealed behind an obscurely named limited liability company? Who is the proprietor of a local restaurant, hotel or regional car wash chain shrouded beneath a corporate veil?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who actually owns what in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three years, a coalition of anti-eviction advocates, unions, legal aid organizations, affordable housing boosters, workers rights groups and pro-transparency activists have been demanding that the state make it easier to answer those questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for three years, those efforts have failed in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of this year’s version, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1201?slug=CA_202320240SB1201\">Senate Bill 1201,\u003c/a> authored by \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/maria-elena-durazo-165445\">Sen. María Elena Durazo\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles Democrat, now worry that their fourth effort will soon meet a similar fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses operating in California must regularly submit documents to the Secretary of State that list the company’s name and address, along with those of its top managers and anyone responsible for receiving legal filings on the company’s behalf. That information is publicly available on the \u003ca href=\"https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business\">Secretary of State’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durazo’s bill would add an additional disclosure requirement: The names and home or business addresses of “beneficial owners” — defined as anyone who “exercises substantial control” or owns at least 25% of a company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11983000,news_11945744,news_11984610","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As Durazo \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257789?t=1504&f=9894c3d5281deb91c62d4cf1b0cd7321\">explained at a recent Senate committee hearing\u003c/a>, the bill is “simply adding one line on the forms that anybody fills out…It’s not asking for any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee, tasked with putting a fiscal price tag on pending legislation, said implementing the bill would cost the state $9.3 million in its first year and nearly $3 million every year after that. The majority of those ongoing expenses would go toward paying the estimated 24 state employees that Secretary of State analysts say are needed to make the bill work. That would represent \u003ca href=\"https://admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov/reports/2024/bus-filing-processing-time-report-march-2024.pdf\">roughly 10% of the agency’s workforce \u003c/a>that now processes business filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though $9 million is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">couch cushion change by California budgetary standards\u003c/a>, the bill’s supporters say the number mystifies them. For a 2020 bill requiring the Secretary of State to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3075\">add a different question to the same form\u003c/a>, the fiscal estimate was a mere $561,000 in the first year and $79,000 thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of a good governance bill that will fail because of bad governance,” said Jyotswaroop Bawa with the progressive nonprofit Rise Economy, which is sponsoring the bill. “By not collecting beneficial owner information, the Secretary of State’s office is allowing chaos to continue with impunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bawa and other supporters of the bill say publishing ownership information will make it easier for tenants, workers and regulators to track down scofflaw landlords and other business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill, which include state and local landlord groups, the California Association of Realtors and the California Chamber of Commerce, argue that it is already easy enough to contact a business and that disclosing the identities of individual owners would violate their privacy and enable harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Secretary of State’s office refused to break down sky-high estimate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once a bill receives a big cost estimate, it’s put in a list known\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\"> as the “suspense file.”\u003c/a> Then, in marathon sessions held twice a year, the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees rapidly tick through every bill on that list, passing some along and killing others without debate or a public vote. The first legislative culling of the year is set for mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its seven-digit cost estimate, Bawa said she worries SB 1201 will be the latest victim of “death by price tag,” especially when the state is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">facing a multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a>. And it wouldn’t be the first time this idea has died a quiet procedural death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a bill that would have required companies to unveil their human owners when filing business records with the state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1199\">didn’t get a hearing\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB889\">revived attempt\u003c/a> the next year failed in the Senate after a majority on a key committee \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/\">declined to cast a vote “yes” or “no” but simply abstained\u003c/a>. Last year, a third try succumbed to the suspense file after the bill was dinged with a $9 million cost estimate from the Secretary of State’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coming up with this year’s figure, the Senate \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/202320240SB1201_Senate-Appropriations.pdf\">committee’s fiscal analysis\u003c/a> said it got the estimates from the Secretary of State. Itemized totals include $3 million in “IT project costs” and more than $2 million in “mailing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Secretary of State’s office refused to answer specific questions from CalMatters about the bill’s cost estimate but instead responded by email with an unsigned statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of the Secretary of State continues to be involved in deliberations and ongoing discussions with legislative staff related to SB 1201. In furtherance of this process, we must respectfully decline to publicly comment on the substantive or fiscal issues associated with the bill at this early point in the legislative process,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the office “did not provide context” for its fiscal breakdown, the committee analysis says, the Secretary of State expressed more detailed concerns over last year’s version of the bill. Back then, the office warned that investigating and verifying the ownership information through a modified form would be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, as currently written, does not require the Secretary of State to perform that due diligence, which led an earlier Senate committee to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1201#\">raise concerns about the bill’s effectiveness.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We could do it for $200’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Corporations and limited liability companies exist in part to ensure that investors in a company aren’t held directly legally responsible for the things that that company does or doesn’t do. If a company maintains unsafe conditions at a rental property, a tenant can sue the company itself, seeking damages from the corporate treasury but not from the business owner’s personal checking account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicizing an owner’s name and address, then, doesn’t serve an obvious legal purpose, said Debra Carlton, a spokesperson for the California Apartment Association. Landlords can always be reached through the property management companies they employ. Lawsuits can always be served to a company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/service-process\">listed representative.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the corporate veil is that you go after the corporation’s assets” in a lawsuit, said Carlton, but it doesn’t prevent landlords from getting sued. “You see lawsuits every day being brought against the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Silver, a lawyer who represents cities and counties in substandard housing cases, agreed that Durazo’s bill isn’t likely to make his work easier going after negligent landlords. It’s often quicker to serve court papers to a corporation or LLC than “an individual slumlord” who doesn’t have a paper trail or web presence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a path that leads you from the corporate name to the people who actually own it, ultimately, and we will find them and hold them responsible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are times when it’s crucial to track down a human business owner quickly, long before matters end up at court, said Larry Brooks, who runs the residential lead prevention program for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers a case in 2022 when twin toddlers were found living in an old apartment with flaking paint. Lead levels in their blood were so high the children were immediately hospitalized. The twins’ parents, undocumented immigrants, initially refused to put Brooks and his team in touch with the building’s property management company, fearing eviction or deportation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Brooks began hunting on his own. He turned first to the county assessor’s office to find the property owner’s name, then plugged that name into the Secretary of State’s database. The corporate documents there only listed a street address. Brooks struggled to connect that address with a phone number or email address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, a county nurse persuaded the twins’ mother to share the phone number of a Sacramento-based property management company. That company put Brooks in touch with the owner, a corporation in Texas, he said. The entire process took two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that there were some state or federal law that required every corporate landlord to have a local contact,” said Brooks, who has also advised Human Impact Partners, a public health nonprofit that supports Durazo’s bill. “In a situation like with the twins, where the blood lead levels were so high they were life-threatening, and the kids had to be rushed to the hospital, you want to be able to call somebody immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said he couldn’t share additional information about the children or the landlord, citing medical privacy laws and pending litigation. CalMatters was unable to verify the details of the story independently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it easier to find the name and address of a business owner would provide a treasure trove of data for tenant rights organizations, housing researchers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-24/rental-housing-shell-companies-landlords\">investigative reporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would also be a boon for would-be harassers and activists, said Carlton. “I can’t figure out what their true purpose is,” she said of the bill’s sponsors. “They want to shame people publicly, maybe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carlton was also puzzled by the $9 million cost estimate: “I almost felt like saying, ‘We could do it,’” she said. “We could do it for $200.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985069/who-owns-the-apartment-next-door-california-agency-says-it-will-take-millions-to-find-out","authors":["byline_news_11985069"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_28458","news_1775","news_1852"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11985077","label":"news_18481"},"news_11985022":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985022","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985022","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-voters-to-decide-on-adding-financial-literacy-course-to-high-school-curriculum","title":"Should Kids Learn Financial Literacy in School? California Voters May Decide","publishDate":1714820449,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Should Kids Learn Financial Literacy in School? California Voters May Decide | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>School curriculum is usually the purview of education experts, but this fall, it could be decided by California voters, who will vote on adding a new requirement for high school students: a one-semester class in managing personal finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Secretary of State is poised to certify that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.financialed4ca.com/_files/ugd/ddc900_30f9026dbbfc41da84354dffd0155870.pdf\">California Personal Finance Act\u003c/a> is eligible for the November ballot, which would add financial literacy to the list of high school graduation requirements beginning with the class of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students would learn about paying for college, online banking, taxes, budgeting, credit, retirement accounts, loans, how the stock market works and other topics. The issue is critical, organizers said, as students face a shifting economy and difficult decisions about college, careers and their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one comes out of the womb knowing how to manage their credit score. It has to be taught,” said Tim Ranzetta, co-founder of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ngpf.org/\">personal finance education nonprofit\u003c/a> and a chief backer of the initiative. “And right now, there’s a dramatic gap between what students know and what they need to know. We have to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters seem to agree with him. A 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nefe.org/news/2022/04/financial-education-mandates.aspx\">survey\u003c/a> of adults nationwide showed that nearly 90% support a financial literacy requirement in high school, and nearly as many wished they had taken such a course when they were students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not surprising, considering the financial woes many people incur. The average \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-statistics/\">credit card debt in California\u003c/a> is $8,366, the sixth-highest rate in the country, and 1 in 6 borrowers nationwide are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/millions-spend-years-in-student-loan-default/#:~:text=Almost%207%20million%20people%2C%20about,270%20days'%20worth%20of%20payments.\">in default on their student loans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Financial literacy already in classrooms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, some education experts have pushed back, not because they’re opposed to financial literacy for students but because they question whether voters are best equipped to dictate what’s taught in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the state’s History-Social Studies framework includes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/documents/hssfwchapter18.pdf\">one-semester course in economics\u003c/a>, required for graduation, that covers much of the same material proposed by the financial literacy ballot initiative proponents. Financial literacy is also included in the first, second and ninth grade curriculum. First graders, for example, learn that money can be exchanged for goods and services, and people decide how to spend their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ranzetta said the curriculum, last updated in 2017, doesn’t focus enough on financial literacy. Personal finance is covered for only a few weeks in the economics course; the rest covers more abstract economic concepts like international trade, resource allocation and the benefits and drawbacks of capitalism. Individual teachers can choose how much they want to focus on certain topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond wouldn’t answer questions about the ballot initiative, although he endorsed it. Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the State Board of Education, also wouldn’t answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leaving curriculum decisions to voters is ‘a bad idea’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed ballot initiative so far has almost zero opposition, but some are questioning the idea of letting voters — and not education experts — decide what students learn in the classroom. Ordinarily, the curriculum in California is developed by a group of teachers and subject-matter professionals who serve on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/cc/cd/\">Instructional Quality Commission\u003c/a>, which meets publicly six times a year. A new curriculum is subject to multiple reviews, edits and public vetting, ultimately going before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/\">State Board of Education\u003c/a> for adoption. Local school boards can adjust the curriculum according to the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most voters don’t know much about education policy, and having them decide what can be taught in schools is a bad idea,” said Morgan Polikoff, an education professor at the University of Southern California. “We already have a process in place for adopting curriculum, and if people are unhappy with it, there are plenty of avenues to have their voices heard — they can go to meetings, they can vote people out of office, they can talk to their representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polikoff worries that adopting curriculum through ballot initiatives could set a dangerous precedent. Religious or anti-LGBTQ curriculum, for example, could be approved by voters, setting up costly and lengthy legal showdowns with the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum can be complicated, as well. When writing new curricula, the Instructional Quality Commission looks at the broader context, ensuring students get new material every year that builds on what they learned previously, subjects don’t overlap and topics are flexible enough for teachers to adapt lessons to the individual needs of their students. Textbooks and tests are also taken into consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislature weighs in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most curriculum updates and changes originate with the commission, but sometimes the Legislature weighs in. The state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/10/ethnic-studies-requirement/\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/11/fake-news-california-school/\">media literacy\u003c/a> requirements, for example, stemmed from Assembly bills. Another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2097?slug=CA_202320240AB2097\">AB 2097\u003c/a>, would add computer science as a graduation requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2927?slug=CA_202320240AB2927\">AB 2927\u003c/a>, a financial literacy bill proposed by Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kevin-mccarty-22\">Kevin McCarty\u003c/a> of Sacramento, would actually do almost the same thing as the ballot initiative. The bill would require financial literacy as a graduation requirement, although it would go into effect until 2031, a year later than the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Fuller, an education professor at UC Berkeley, said he worries about the increasing politicization of curriculum — either from the Legislature or those pushing for ballot initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these political interests unabashedly trying to control what’s taught in the classroom instead of leaving it up to teachers and locally elected school boards,” Fuller said. “We should trust those folks to devise a thoughtful curriculum that’s appropriate for their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also questioned the ever-growing list of graduation requirements. High schools only offer six or seven class periods a day, and with more required classes, there’s less room for art and other electives. Some districts have started adding an extra period so students can fit in all the classes they need to take to graduate, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/04/career-pathways/\">finish a career pathway\u003c/a> and qualify for California’s public universities.[aside postID=news_11984551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-SAT-III-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I’m not sure how adding more required classes is going to motivate restless teenagers,” Fuller said. “With more requirements, we’re giving them almost no chance to study things they’re actually interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty’s bill is not the Legislature’s first attempt to wade into financial literacy. A dozen bills requiring financial literacy have died or been vetoed in recent years, in most cases because the financial literacy curriculum already exists and the state already has a system for adopting the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gov. Jerry Brown wrote in 2018 when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB858\">vetoed a bill\u003c/a> that would have made financial literacy materials available to teachers: “This bill is unnecessary. The History-Social Science Framework already contains financial literacy content for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12, as well as a financial literacy elective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranzetta said the Legislature’s inability to pass a financial literacy curriculum spurred him to take the matter directly to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recognize the value of the process, but it’s slow, and so far, it hasn’t worked in California,” he said. “The issue is too urgent and too popular to wait any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranzetta grew up in New Jersey, where his father was a banker, and his mother was a community volunteer who raised six children. He learned financial literacy from his parents and assumed other young people did, too. It wasn’t until he started volunteering at an East Palo Alto high school that he realized many students are clueless about money and that ignorance can hamper them throughout their lives. But they were eager to learn, he said, and share the information with their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience inspired him to start NextGen Personal Finance, which offers free financial literacy curriculum and training for teachers. At least 7,000 teachers in California and more than 100,000 nationwide have participated, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A class that demystifies money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Crystal Rigley Janis teaches two economics classes and three personal finance classes. Her classes cover topics she wishes she had known as a young person, such as negotiating a salary, not relying on gut instinct when investing, and avoiding individual stocks in favor of index funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 15 years to understand those things, and it probably cost me millions of dollars,” said Rigley, who worked for several years at a wealth management firm before going into teaching. “I don’t want other people to make the mistakes I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk in the main entrance of Berkeley High School in Berkeley on May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eliza Maier, a senior, was so inspired by Rigley’s class that she opened a Roth IRA when she turned 18 and transferred money from her low-interest savings account. The class, she said, helped demystify money and its role in major life choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned that money isn’t good or bad — it’s a tool,” Maier said. “It can help you realize your goals. It can help you be prepared for whatever happens in your life. I didn’t know anything about money when I started taking this class, but I think it’s so important, especially for high school students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California's Secretary of State is poised to certify the California Personal Finance Act for November’s ballot, which would add financial literacy to high school graduation requirements beginning with the class of 2030.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1714780996,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1626},"headData":{"title":"Should Kids Learn Financial Literacy in School? 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California Voters May Decide","datePublished":"2024-05-04T11:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-04T00:03:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Carolyn Jones, CalMatters","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985022/california-voters-to-decide-on-adding-financial-literacy-course-to-high-school-curriculum","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>School curriculum is usually the purview of education experts, but this fall, it could be decided by California voters, who will vote on adding a new requirement for high school students: a one-semester class in managing personal finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Secretary of State is poised to certify that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.financialed4ca.com/_files/ugd/ddc900_30f9026dbbfc41da84354dffd0155870.pdf\">California Personal Finance Act\u003c/a> is eligible for the November ballot, which would add financial literacy to the list of high school graduation requirements beginning with the class of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students would learn about paying for college, online banking, taxes, budgeting, credit, retirement accounts, loans, how the stock market works and other topics. The issue is critical, organizers said, as students face a shifting economy and difficult decisions about college, careers and their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one comes out of the womb knowing how to manage their credit score. It has to be taught,” said Tim Ranzetta, co-founder of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ngpf.org/\">personal finance education nonprofit\u003c/a> and a chief backer of the initiative. “And right now, there’s a dramatic gap between what students know and what they need to know. We have to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters seem to agree with him. A 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nefe.org/news/2022/04/financial-education-mandates.aspx\">survey\u003c/a> of adults nationwide showed that nearly 90% support a financial literacy requirement in high school, and nearly as many wished they had taken such a course when they were students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not surprising, considering the financial woes many people incur. The average \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-statistics/\">credit card debt in California\u003c/a> is $8,366, the sixth-highest rate in the country, and 1 in 6 borrowers nationwide are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/millions-spend-years-in-student-loan-default/#:~:text=Almost%207%20million%20people%2C%20about,270%20days'%20worth%20of%20payments.\">in default on their student loans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Financial literacy already in classrooms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, some education experts have pushed back, not because they’re opposed to financial literacy for students but because they question whether voters are best equipped to dictate what’s taught in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the state’s History-Social Studies framework includes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/documents/hssfwchapter18.pdf\">one-semester course in economics\u003c/a>, required for graduation, that covers much of the same material proposed by the financial literacy ballot initiative proponents. Financial literacy is also included in the first, second and ninth grade curriculum. First graders, for example, learn that money can be exchanged for goods and services, and people decide how to spend their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ranzetta said the curriculum, last updated in 2017, doesn’t focus enough on financial literacy. Personal finance is covered for only a few weeks in the economics course; the rest covers more abstract economic concepts like international trade, resource allocation and the benefits and drawbacks of capitalism. Individual teachers can choose how much they want to focus on certain topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond wouldn’t answer questions about the ballot initiative, although he endorsed it. Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the State Board of Education, also wouldn’t answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leaving curriculum decisions to voters is ‘a bad idea’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed ballot initiative so far has almost zero opposition, but some are questioning the idea of letting voters — and not education experts — decide what students learn in the classroom. Ordinarily, the curriculum in California is developed by a group of teachers and subject-matter professionals who serve on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/cc/cd/\">Instructional Quality Commission\u003c/a>, which meets publicly six times a year. A new curriculum is subject to multiple reviews, edits and public vetting, ultimately going before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/\">State Board of Education\u003c/a> for adoption. Local school boards can adjust the curriculum according to the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most voters don’t know much about education policy, and having them decide what can be taught in schools is a bad idea,” said Morgan Polikoff, an education professor at the University of Southern California. “We already have a process in place for adopting curriculum, and if people are unhappy with it, there are plenty of avenues to have their voices heard — they can go to meetings, they can vote people out of office, they can talk to their representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polikoff worries that adopting curriculum through ballot initiatives could set a dangerous precedent. Religious or anti-LGBTQ curriculum, for example, could be approved by voters, setting up costly and lengthy legal showdowns with the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum can be complicated, as well. When writing new curricula, the Instructional Quality Commission looks at the broader context, ensuring students get new material every year that builds on what they learned previously, subjects don’t overlap and topics are flexible enough for teachers to adapt lessons to the individual needs of their students. Textbooks and tests are also taken into consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislature weighs in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most curriculum updates and changes originate with the commission, but sometimes the Legislature weighs in. The state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/10/ethnic-studies-requirement/\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/11/fake-news-california-school/\">media literacy\u003c/a> requirements, for example, stemmed from Assembly bills. Another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2097?slug=CA_202320240AB2097\">AB 2097\u003c/a>, would add computer science as a graduation requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2927?slug=CA_202320240AB2927\">AB 2927\u003c/a>, a financial literacy bill proposed by Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kevin-mccarty-22\">Kevin McCarty\u003c/a> of Sacramento, would actually do almost the same thing as the ballot initiative. The bill would require financial literacy as a graduation requirement, although it would go into effect until 2031, a year later than the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Fuller, an education professor at UC Berkeley, said he worries about the increasing politicization of curriculum — either from the Legislature or those pushing for ballot initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these political interests unabashedly trying to control what’s taught in the classroom instead of leaving it up to teachers and locally elected school boards,” Fuller said. “We should trust those folks to devise a thoughtful curriculum that’s appropriate for their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also questioned the ever-growing list of graduation requirements. High schools only offer six or seven class periods a day, and with more required classes, there’s less room for art and other electives. Some districts have started adding an extra period so students can fit in all the classes they need to take to graduate, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/04/career-pathways/\">finish a career pathway\u003c/a> and qualify for California’s public universities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11984551","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-SAT-III-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m not sure how adding more required classes is going to motivate restless teenagers,” Fuller said. “With more requirements, we’re giving them almost no chance to study things they’re actually interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty’s bill is not the Legislature’s first attempt to wade into financial literacy. A dozen bills requiring financial literacy have died or been vetoed in recent years, in most cases because the financial literacy curriculum already exists and the state already has a system for adopting the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gov. Jerry Brown wrote in 2018 when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB858\">vetoed a bill\u003c/a> that would have made financial literacy materials available to teachers: “This bill is unnecessary. 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Her classes cover topics she wishes she had known as a young person, such as negotiating a salary, not relying on gut instinct when investing, and avoiding individual stocks in favor of index funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 15 years to understand those things, and it probably cost me millions of dollars,” said Rigley, who worked for several years at a wealth management firm before going into teaching. “I don’t want other people to make the mistakes I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk in the main entrance of Berkeley High School in Berkeley on May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eliza Maier, a senior, was so inspired by Rigley’s class that she opened a Roth IRA when she turned 18 and transferred money from her low-interest savings account. 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But its implications are enormous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The differences are just really stark,” Romem said. “We have been, on a grand scale, misleading ourselves with our current metrics to think they are much more affordable than they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, Romem said, is that those metrics don’t account for a simple truth: People who can’t afford rent or mortgage payments in a place often don’t live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In other words, we’ve been saying Beverly Hills is perfectly affordable because the people who live there can afford it,” Romem said. “And we’ve been doing that for a broader geography than just Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine whether a given county is affordable, policymakers might look at how many people earning the area’s median income can afford to rent or buy a median-priced home. A home is considered “affordable” if the household’s earners are paying no more than 30% of their income on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To craft a new definition of affordability, Romem, and co-author, Dan Shoag looked at responses to a Census questionnaire that asked whether people felt they could afford their expenses after paying for housing costs comfortably, were doing OK, just getting by, or having difficulty. They then looked at a broader set of Census respondents’ incomes and housing costs and used that as the basis for determining the affordability of each county for all Californians, including those not living in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/o_suCo2OEkuv7Jmlszepp4?domain=ternercenter.berkeley.edu\">result is an interactive map\u003c/a> that shows how many Californians could afford to live in each county — which paints a much bleaker picture of the state’s most expensive areas than had previously been shown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take San Francisco, for example, where the median household income was close to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocitycalifornia/PST045222\">$137,000 in 2022.\u003c/a> Under the classic definition of affordability, 67% of renters are “comfortable” or “doing OK.” However, under the definition Romem and his colleagues created, only 23% of Californians would be able to rent there either comfortably or OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an idea that resonates with 31-year-old software developer Nick Fallon. Until December, when he was laid off from his job, he was making $120,000 and paying $2,650 per month in rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the Castro District. He could afford it but felt like it was impossible to save any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a future where I could retire here,” Fallon said. “I don’t see a future where I could have children if I wanted them. Buying a house is completely out of the picture. Ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']But rather than simply showing that expensive places like San Francisco are indeed expensive, the Terner Center’s new tool goes further. It allows users to add transportation and childcare costs and accounts for relative differences in incomes across counties, providing a more nuanced picture of rural areas than had previously been shown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shows that access to public transportation makes urban areas more affordable than they might otherwise be, and rural places — where transit is scarce and incomes are relatively lower — end up being less affordable than they would otherwise seem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something Colin Sanders experienced firsthand when he moved from Oakland to Twain Harte, a small mountain community in Tuolumne County. The 34-year-old mechanic had been splitting a master bedroom in a West Oakland home for $1,600 per month. In 2020, Sanders bought a 900-square-foot, off-grid home in Twain Harte for around $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he can afford the home, Sanders said he was forced to buy a newer, more reliable truck since public transportation is nearly nonexistent, and constantly repairing an older vehicle cost him work. He travels around the county, working as a handyman and electrician, and now pays around $1,100 a month in car payments and fuel, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really underestimated how much I’d be driving and how much I’d be spending on fuel,” Sanders said. “I’m not making much more out here than I did there (in Oakland), and I thought that it would go further, but it’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If policymakers chose to adopt the new definition of affordability, publicly funded affordable housing developers would consider not just the incomes of people who live in the area but also those who might want or need to live there, Romem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would help solve a problem Teri Baldwin said she sees in her role as a kindergarten teacher and president of the Palo Alto Educators Association. The union is currently working with a developer on a project to \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/04/21/new-housing-proposal-looks-to-aid-palo-alto-teachers/\">build affordable housing for Palo Alto teachers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fifth of the development’s 44 apartments will be available to teachers, making between 50% to 80% of Palo Alto’s median income, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/paloaltocitycalifornia/PST045222\">$214,118 in 2022\u003c/a>. The remaining apartments will be reserved for people making between 80% and 120% of the median income. But what counts as an “affordable” rent for people within those income bands is still pretty expensive, Baldwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still pretty high,” she said. “It’s a high percentage of your salary going towards rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said even this “affordable” housing is out of reach for many of the district’s support staff, who make even less than teachers. Baldwin is hoping the state can provide deeper subsidies to developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like the state to give incentives, more tax breaks or something like that to developers who want to help,” she said, adding the state should look at ways to build housing that doesn’t tie rents to the median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing that will be difficult this year, as the state faces an \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4850#:~:text=Under%20LAO%20Revenue%20Update%2C%20Budget,budget%20was%20proposed%20in%20January.\">estimated $73 billion deficit\u003c/a>, said Matthew Schwartz, president and CEO of the California Housing Partnership, an affordable housing policy and advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deepening subsidies to make it more affordable to some will mean providing less of that housing, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a pretty Hobbesian choice, and I don’t think most of us would be in favor of it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state already saw affordable housing production shrink last year — dropping from more than 23,500 below-market-rate units in 2022 to just under 14,000 in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/California-Affordable-Housing-Needs-Report-2024-1.pdf\">according to the partnership\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remedying the situation will require more money, he said. Schwartz hopes the legislature will support Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ proposal to put a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://a14.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230425-assemblymember-wicks-announces-aim-put-10b-housing-bond-2024-primary-ballot\">$10 billion affordable housing bond\u003c/a> on the November ballot. A separate \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/authorities/bay-area-housing-finance-authority/bay-area-affordable-housing-bond\">$10 billion to $20 billion bond measure\u003c/a> is also being proposed for the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw production last year decline by almost one third,” Schwartz said, adding that a big reason for that was the exhaustion of an earlier statewide affordable housing bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building more deeply affordable housing is not the only solution, Romem argues. Instead, he said the state should encourage developers to build more housing for people at all income levels, which will slow the growth in home prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ensuring that the housing that gets built is actually affordable requires a different approach than one the federal government and California have taken so far, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We value what we measure, and that means that we want to be measuring the right thing,” Romem said. And that requires asking the right question, he said: “How affordable San Francisco or Beverly Hills or Los Angeles are — not just to the people who have been able to make it there — but to the people who would make it there if they could.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A few major flaws exist in defining whether housing is affordable for Californians. 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But its implications are enormous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The differences are just really stark,” Romem said. “We have been, on a grand scale, misleading ourselves with our current metrics to think they are much more affordable than they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, Romem said, is that those metrics don’t account for a simple truth: People who can’t afford rent or mortgage payments in a place often don’t live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In other words, we’ve been saying Beverly Hills is perfectly affordable because the people who live there can afford it,” Romem said. “And we’ve been doing that for a broader geography than just Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine whether a given county is affordable, policymakers might look at how many people earning the area’s median income can afford to rent or buy a median-priced home. A home is considered “affordable” if the household’s earners are paying no more than 30% of their income on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To craft a new definition of affordability, Romem, and co-author, Dan Shoag looked at responses to a Census questionnaire that asked whether people felt they could afford their expenses after paying for housing costs comfortably, were doing OK, just getting by, or having difficulty. They then looked at a broader set of Census respondents’ incomes and housing costs and used that as the basis for determining the affordability of each county for all Californians, including those not living in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/o_suCo2OEkuv7Jmlszepp4?domain=ternercenter.berkeley.edu\">result is an interactive map\u003c/a> that shows how many Californians could afford to live in each county — which paints a much bleaker picture of the state’s most expensive areas than had previously been shown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take San Francisco, for example, where the median household income was close to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocitycalifornia/PST045222\">$137,000 in 2022.\u003c/a> Under the classic definition of affordability, 67% of renters are “comfortable” or “doing OK.” However, under the definition Romem and his colleagues created, only 23% of Californians would be able to rent there either comfortably or OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an idea that resonates with 31-year-old software developer Nick Fallon. Until December, when he was laid off from his job, he was making $120,000 and paying $2,650 per month in rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the Castro District. He could afford it but felt like it was impossible to save any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a future where I could retire here,” Fallon said. “I don’t see a future where I could have children if I wanted them. Buying a house is completely out of the picture. Ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Housing Coverage ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But rather than simply showing that expensive places like San Francisco are indeed expensive, the Terner Center’s new tool goes further. It allows users to add transportation and childcare costs and accounts for relative differences in incomes across counties, providing a more nuanced picture of rural areas than had previously been shown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shows that access to public transportation makes urban areas more affordable than they might otherwise be, and rural places — where transit is scarce and incomes are relatively lower — end up being less affordable than they would otherwise seem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something Colin Sanders experienced firsthand when he moved from Oakland to Twain Harte, a small mountain community in Tuolumne County. The 34-year-old mechanic had been splitting a master bedroom in a West Oakland home for $1,600 per month. In 2020, Sanders bought a 900-square-foot, off-grid home in Twain Harte for around $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he can afford the home, Sanders said he was forced to buy a newer, more reliable truck since public transportation is nearly nonexistent, and constantly repairing an older vehicle cost him work. He travels around the county, working as a handyman and electrician, and now pays around $1,100 a month in car payments and fuel, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really underestimated how much I’d be driving and how much I’d be spending on fuel,” Sanders said. “I’m not making much more out here than I did there (in Oakland), and I thought that it would go further, but it’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If policymakers chose to adopt the new definition of affordability, publicly funded affordable housing developers would consider not just the incomes of people who live in the area but also those who might want or need to live there, Romem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would help solve a problem Teri Baldwin said she sees in her role as a kindergarten teacher and president of the Palo Alto Educators Association. The union is currently working with a developer on a project to \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/04/21/new-housing-proposal-looks-to-aid-palo-alto-teachers/\">build affordable housing for Palo Alto teachers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fifth of the development’s 44 apartments will be available to teachers, making between 50% to 80% of Palo Alto’s median income, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/paloaltocitycalifornia/PST045222\">$214,118 in 2022\u003c/a>. The remaining apartments will be reserved for people making between 80% and 120% of the median income. But what counts as an “affordable” rent for people within those income bands is still pretty expensive, Baldwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still pretty high,” she said. “It’s a high percentage of your salary going towards rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said even this “affordable” housing is out of reach for many of the district’s support staff, who make even less than teachers. Baldwin is hoping the state can provide deeper subsidies to developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like the state to give incentives, more tax breaks or something like that to developers who want to help,” she said, adding the state should look at ways to build housing that doesn’t tie rents to the median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing that will be difficult this year, as the state faces an \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4850#:~:text=Under%20LAO%20Revenue%20Update%2C%20Budget,budget%20was%20proposed%20in%20January.\">estimated $73 billion deficit\u003c/a>, said Matthew Schwartz, president and CEO of the California Housing Partnership, an affordable housing policy and advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deepening subsidies to make it more affordable to some will mean providing less of that housing, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a pretty Hobbesian choice, and I don’t think most of us would be in favor of it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state already saw affordable housing production shrink last year — dropping from more than 23,500 below-market-rate units in 2022 to just under 14,000 in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/California-Affordable-Housing-Needs-Report-2024-1.pdf\">according to the partnership\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remedying the situation will require more money, he said. Schwartz hopes the legislature will support Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ proposal to put a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://a14.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230425-assemblymember-wicks-announces-aim-put-10b-housing-bond-2024-primary-ballot\">$10 billion affordable housing bond\u003c/a> on the November ballot. A separate \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/authorities/bay-area-housing-finance-authority/bay-area-affordable-housing-bond\">$10 billion to $20 billion bond measure\u003c/a> is also being proposed for the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw production last year decline by almost one third,” Schwartz said, adding that a big reason for that was the exhaustion of an earlier statewide affordable housing bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building more deeply affordable housing is not the only solution, Romem argues. Instead, he said the state should encourage developers to build more housing for people at all income levels, which will slow the growth in home prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ensuring that the housing that gets built is actually affordable requires a different approach than one the federal government and California have taken so far, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We value what we measure, and that means that we want to be measuring the right thing,” Romem said. 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However, California Forever had to submit just over 13,000 signatures to get on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County Registrar’s Office confirmed with KQED that they had received the signatures early Tuesday morning. The company claims it collected over 20,000 signatures, but the registrar’s office will spend the next five days counting each signature individually to make sure they have enough to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s announcement marked a turning point in a campaign that’s been controversial from the start. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972769/not-just-a-crazy-idea-california-forever-releases-ballot-details-for-new-bay-area-city\">revealing the ballot initiative\u003c/a> in mid-January, California Forever didn’t begin collecting signatures until late March due to back-and-forth with the registrar’s office over the ballot language. The company also faced accusations that the firm it hired to gather signatures, PCI Consultants, was misrepresenting the initiative and manipulating voters into signing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever has denied those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, characterized the speedy signature-gathering effort as an endorsement for the plan itself, noting workers gathered 7,000 more signatures than required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That number reflects the breadth and depth of support for the East Solano plan across Solano County, from all walks of life, all parts of the county who are saying the same thing: Yes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Paul Mitchell, who heads the political polling organization Redistricting Partners, said signature gathering can be done quickly — if you’re willing to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These signature firms, when they have the resources to hire staff, don’t fail in collecting signatures,” he said. “The signature-gathering process is very mechanical. So if you have the resources to pay for all those mechanics, you’ll be fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Secretary of State’s Office did not confirm or deny whether it was investigating any formal complaints against California Forever, a spokesperson at the Solano County Registrar’s Office said at least nine people had emailed the office, complaining about misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacaville resident Tina Collins said she saw that conduct first-hand in early April from a signature gatherer standing outside a Walmart Supercenter in Dixon. She said the worker handed her several pieces of paper to sign, but she was confused about what she was approving. When she refused to sign the documents, she said the signature gatherer followed her to her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt extremely uncomfortable,” she said. “I haven’t heard much about [California Forever], but from what I’ve heard, I don’t think it’s promising.”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='housing']California Forever may have an uphill battle ahead of them as they seek approval from voters, who have been deeply skeptical of the plan since it was unveiled last August. It, along with its parent company, Flannery Associates, were forced to reveal their identities after spending the past six years \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970694/california-forever-lawsuit-looms-as-solano-county-farmers-fight-back\">discreetly buying about 60,000 acres of land\u003c/a> in the Montezuma Hills. Since going public, California Forever has been met with harsh criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976108/california-forever-faces-resistance-from-federal-lawmakers-and-local-leaders-in-solano-county\">several lawmakers\u003c/a>, affordable housing advocates and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A poll conducted in early March by FM3 Research on behalf of the Greenbelt Alliance, an organization staunchly opposed to the project, found that 60% of people aware of the company’s plan opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite vocal naysayers, some Solano County voters are supportive. Tyree Carrie lives in Suisun City, a few miles from the proposed new town. He said if it makes it to the November ballot, he’ll vote “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it’s something that’s very necessary,” he said. “There’s a lot of people who are struggling with housing in general, so I think it’s awesome when there are more options available and being able to generate income in an area, as far as giving people work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the myriad of promises California Forever has tied to its proposal, the company said it would bring 15,000 new jobs with higher-than-average pay. 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Just how much won’t be publicly available until the company files its campaign finance statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Stern, who served on the first council of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said deep pockets don’t necessarily guarantee a “Yes” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you spend a lot of money doesn’t mean you’re going to win an election,” he said. “It does mean you’re going to get on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On Tuesday, California Forever, a company with a controversial vision to transform Eastern Solano County farmland into a dense, walkable city, moved one step closer to appearing on the November ballot.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1714669175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":963},"headData":{"title":"Billionaire-Backed Bid for New Solano County City Is Closer to November Ballot | KQED","description":"On Tuesday, California Forever, a company with a controversial vision to transform Eastern Solano County farmland into a dense, walkable city, moved one step closer to appearing on the November ballot.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Billionaire-Backed Bid for New Solano County City Is Closer to November Ballot","datePublished":"2024-04-30T17:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-02T16:59:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/d76cead7-2a90-48c4-b65b-b1640101d218/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11984408","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11984408/billionaire-backed-bid-for-new-solano-county-city-is-closer-to-november-ballot","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This story was updated on April 30, 2024, at 11:15 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970694/california-forever-lawsuit-looms-as-solano-county-farmers-fight-back\">California Forever\u003c/a> has gathered enough signatures to qualify its measure for the November ballot, representatives for the billionaire-backed company said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which hopes to transform farmland in Eastern Solano County into a dense, walkable city, must first get its plan approved by voters. However, California Forever had to submit just over 13,000 signatures to get on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County Registrar’s Office confirmed with KQED that they had received the signatures early Tuesday morning. The company claims it collected over 20,000 signatures, but the registrar’s office will spend the next five days counting each signature individually to make sure they have enough to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s announcement marked a turning point in a campaign that’s been controversial from the start. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972769/not-just-a-crazy-idea-california-forever-releases-ballot-details-for-new-bay-area-city\">revealing the ballot initiative\u003c/a> in mid-January, California Forever didn’t begin collecting signatures until late March due to back-and-forth with the registrar’s office over the ballot language. The company also faced accusations that the firm it hired to gather signatures, PCI Consultants, was misrepresenting the initiative and manipulating voters into signing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever has denied those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, characterized the speedy signature-gathering effort as an endorsement for the plan itself, noting workers gathered 7,000 more signatures than required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That number reflects the breadth and depth of support for the East Solano plan across Solano County, from all walks of life, all parts of the county who are saying the same thing: Yes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Paul Mitchell, who heads the political polling organization Redistricting Partners, said signature gathering can be done quickly — if you’re willing to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These signature firms, when they have the resources to hire staff, don’t fail in collecting signatures,” he said. “The signature-gathering process is very mechanical. So if you have the resources to pay for all those mechanics, you’ll be fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Secretary of State’s Office did not confirm or deny whether it was investigating any formal complaints against California Forever, a spokesperson at the Solano County Registrar’s Office said at least nine people had emailed the office, complaining about misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacaville resident Tina Collins said she saw that conduct first-hand in early April from a signature gatherer standing outside a Walmart Supercenter in Dixon. She said the worker handed her several pieces of paper to sign, but she was confused about what she was approving. When she refused to sign the documents, she said the signature gatherer followed her to her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt extremely uncomfortable,” she said. “I haven’t heard much about [California Forever], but from what I’ve heard, I don’t think it’s promising.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California Forever may have an uphill battle ahead of them as they seek approval from voters, who have been deeply skeptical of the plan since it was unveiled last August. It, along with its parent company, Flannery Associates, were forced to reveal their identities after spending the past six years \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970694/california-forever-lawsuit-looms-as-solano-county-farmers-fight-back\">discreetly buying about 60,000 acres of land\u003c/a> in the Montezuma Hills. Since going public, California Forever has been met with harsh criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976108/california-forever-faces-resistance-from-federal-lawmakers-and-local-leaders-in-solano-county\">several lawmakers\u003c/a>, affordable housing advocates and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A poll conducted in early March by FM3 Research on behalf of the Greenbelt Alliance, an organization staunchly opposed to the project, found that 60% of people aware of the company’s plan opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite vocal naysayers, some Solano County voters are supportive. Tyree Carrie lives in Suisun City, a few miles from the proposed new town. He said if it makes it to the November ballot, he’ll vote “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it’s something that’s very necessary,” he said. “There’s a lot of people who are struggling with housing in general, so I think it’s awesome when there are more options available and being able to generate income in an area, as far as giving people work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the myriad of promises California Forever has tied to its proposal, the company said it would bring 15,000 new jobs with higher-than-average pay. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://assets.ctfassets.net/ivxuf0dn6dhw/7d88UkQMImn6Q01yvy1RWM/76e2a1e38c16fc52ab3b758f6caf71b0/CMC_Solano_Analysis.pdf\">study\u003c/a> conducted by Michael Genest, the former California Director of Finance, found a “significant economic gap between Solano County and its neighbors in the Bay Area,” with a 30% gap in average household income between Solano County residents and other Bay Area residents, based on 2022 numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In cities like Fairfield and [others], there’s not a lot of good-paying jobs and not a lot of affordable housing either,” said Niyah Proctor, a Fairfield resident. “The state of California is really expensive, so I feel like we should add more places for people to be able to afford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To woo more voters like Carrie and Proctor and get its initiative approved, California Forever promised to spend big bucks on its campaign. Just how much won’t be publicly available until the company files its campaign finance statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Stern, who served on the first council of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said deep pockets don’t necessarily guarantee a “Yes” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you spend a lot of money doesn’t mean you’re going to win an election,” he said. “It does mean you’re going to get on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11984408/billionaire-backed-bid-for-new-solano-county-city-is-closer-to-november-ballot","authors":["11672"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_33689","news_27626","news_1775","news_21358","news_353","news_23938","news_27264","news_273"],"featImg":"news_11984434","label":"news"},"news_11970993":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11970993","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11970993","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"these-new-california-housing-laws-are-going-into-effect-in-2024","title":"These New California Housing Laws Are Going Into Effect in 2024","publishDate":1704196809,"format":"standard","headTitle":"These New California Housing Laws Are Going Into Effect in 2024 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#anchor\">This report contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, California lawmakers broke through a longstanding logjam of anti-housing sentiment, unleashing 15 landmark bills that sought to boost new construction across the state. Six years later, the 2023 legislative session saw 56 housing bills signed into law, evidence the tide has yet to turn on efforts to increase home affordability in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the controversial 2017 session — and the years of big housing battles that followed — 2023 was largely free of contentious fights over blockbuster bills, replaced with the steady shearing of restrictions on new housing and shoring up of protections designed to keep renters in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#housinghighlights\">Housing bill highlights from the 2023 Legislative session\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, spokesman for California YIMBY, which advocates for building more housing, said the lack of controversy has a simple explanation: There were more legislators from all the parts of the state carrying housing bills.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amie Fishman, executive director, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California\"]‘We do not have to accept the status quo of the intensifying housing and homelessness crisis that our communities are experiencing across the state.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislature is essentially now pro-housing,” he said. “Pretty unequivocally and objectively, you can say that the legislature wants to solve the housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming year appears poised to continue the trend of incremental legislative change, in part because of how many bills have already been approved. More than \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/New-Pathways-to-Encourage-Housing-Production-Evaluating-Californias-Recent-Housing-Legislation-April-2023-Final-1.pdf\">100 housing production\u003c/a> laws have gone into effect since 2017, and new construction has indeed increased, with nearly 114,000 homes and apartment units permitted, on average, since 2018, up roughly 17% compared to the five-year average between 2013–2017, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://cbia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Housing-Production-2005-to-2022.pdf\">Construction Industry Research Board (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws to increase granny flats and backyard cottages have been particularly successful, with accessory dwelling units now accounting for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">10% of all housing units built since 2018\u003c/a> and 18% of all completed units in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11965492,news_11969623,news_11970242\" label=\"Related Stories\"]But despite this success, it hasn’t been enough to move the needle on affordability, which remains at historic lows. According to the California Association of Realtors, just \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/haitraditional\">15% of Californians\u003c/a> could afford the median-priced single-family home in 2023, down from \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/16/auto-draft-2/\">27% in 2018\u003c/a>. And more than half of all tenants \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/housingneeds/\">spent over a third of their income on rent\u003c/a>, indicating housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, homelessness increased — up nearly 40% since 2018, compared to an 18% rise nationally, according to the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">Department of Housing and Urban Development (PDF)\u003c/a>. And while California \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/HNR_CA_CHPC-Master2023-FINAL.pdf\">more than tripled the number of homes built (PDF)\u003c/a> for low-income renters between 2019 and 2022, it is still building only around 20% of its goals, according to the California Housing Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state stares down a projected \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/csac-bulletin-article/lao-releases-gloomy-2024-25-state-revenue-forecast#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%202024%2D25%20Budget,%2D23%20and%202023%2D24%20.\">$68 billion budget deficit\u003c/a>, securing additional funding will be especially critical in 2024, said Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. Her organization is currently working to put a $10 billion regional housing bond for the Bay Area on the ballot, which might coincide with another proposed $10 billion statewide housing bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already on the March 2024 ballot is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/12/governor-newsom-puts-historic-mental-health-transformation-on-march-2024-ballot/\">Prop 1\u003c/a>, a $6.38 billion bond championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to build new housing and treatment centers for people undergoing behavioral and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The forward motion [last] year was a reinforcement that we can make forward progress, that there are solutions, that we can make a difference,” she said. “We do not have to accept the status quo of the intensifying housing and homelessness crisis that our communities are experiencing across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed funding comes amid a tough environment for builders, renters and home buyers alike as high interest rates and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-loses-four-home-insurance-companies-18457381.php\">struggling insurance market\u003c/a> continue to drive up housing costs.\u003cbr>\nHome prices are expected to continue to grow at a roughly 6% pace in 2024, said Sanjay Wagle, head of government affairs for the California Association of Realtors. He said the supply of homes for sale will likely improve, but not enough to offset the corresponding increase in demand that is expected to be further boosted by decreasing mortgage rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Howard, with the California Apartment Association, said uncertainty in the job market could lead to uncertainty in the rental market. But, with mortgage rates still higher than they had been in the past, some would-be homebuyers will choose to continue renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it’ll be an interesting 2024,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the housing bills going into effect in 2024:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"housinghighlights\">\u003c/a>Housing Production\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB4\">\u003cstrong>SB 4 (Wiener):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922784/california-churches-want-to-build-affordable-housing-on-their-land-so-why-is-it-so-hard\">third year was the charm\u003c/a> for the so-called “Yes in God’s Backyard” law. It allows 100% affordable housing developments to be built on land owned by religious institutions and nonprofit colleges or universities. It also exempts those projects from the California Environmental Quality Act and requires construction workers to be paid the prevailing wage. The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley estimates \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/faith-based-and-college-land-housing/\">171,000 acres of developable land\u003c/a> would be eligible to take advantage of the new law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423 (Wiener)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> In 2017, lawmakers passed SB 35 as one of more than a dozen landmark housing bills. The law, which was set to sunset in 2026, requires cities to approve certain housing projects that meet minimum affordable housing requirements if the city has not met its state-mandated housing targets. Another \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Terner-Center-SB-35-Paper-August-2023-Final.pdf\">Terner Center report (PDF)\u003c/a> credited the bill with adding some 18,000 housing units between 2018 and 2021. SB 423 extends the provisions of SB 35 through 2036.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB684\">\u003cstrong>SB 684 (Caballero)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> The law streamlines the approval process for small, infill apartment buildings with up to 10 units on vacant lots in neighborhoods where apartments are already allowed. It also includes protections against demolishing existing rent-controlled or affordable housing. The bill initially included single-family neighborhoods, which tend to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning#:~:text=Single%2Dfamily%20zoning%20makes%20it,type%20of%20building%20as%20well.\">wealthier and whiter\u003c/a> than neighborhoods with existing apartment buildings, but that provision was later removed. Adam Briones, CEO of California Community Builders, said the move “reinforces an unfortunate message that many people of color still feel is true: Our neighborhoods matter less to those in power than wealthy, white neighborhoods. This echo of California’s discriminatory past will unfortunately make it harder to build support for housing production in communities of color.” Matthew Lewis from California YIMBY said his organization would be lobbying for a new bill in 2024 to allow small apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tenants’ Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB12\">\u003cstrong>AB 12 (Haney):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Landlords in California have been allowed to charge two months’ rent as a security deposit for unfurnished apartments or homes and up to three months’ rent for furnished ones. AB 12 limits security deposits to one month’s rent, regardless of whether the residential property is furnished or unfurnished. It goes into effect on July 1, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB567\">\u003cstrong>SB 567 (Durazo):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> In 2019, California lawmakers passed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482\">Tenant Protection Act\u003c/a>, which was hailed at the time as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-08/california-rent-cap-tenant-protections-signed\">strongest laws of its kind in the nation\u003c/a>. It capped rent increases at 10% in most rental properties that were built at least 15 years ago and imposed new eviction protections. Many tenant activists, however, felt it didn’t go far enough. SB 567 sought to strengthen the eviction protections in the 2019 law by limiting so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945257/california-landlords-can-evict-renters-for-repairs-a-new-bill-could-limit-that\">renovictions\u003c/a>,” where landlords evict tenants to complete major repairs on the property. It also heightens the penalties for landlords who claim they are taking the property off the rental market only to re-rent the units, among other provisions. It goes into effect on April 1, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AB 1418 (McKinnor): \u003c/b>The law aims for “crime-free housing” policies, which often require landlords to evict or otherwise penalize tenants if they have been arrested or had a criminal conviction or refuse to rent to them in the first place. The policies have been shown to impact people of color disproportionately. The new law does not stop landlords from performing background checks, only city policies that require them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environmental Restrictions Removed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1449\">\u003cstrong>AB 1449 (Alvarez):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> This law exempts 100% affordable housing projects from the California Environmental Quality Act, which can delay projects for years. Christopher Martin, policy director for Housing California, described it as one of the most impactful bills of the year. “It’s going to open up a lot more affordable housing,” he said. The law is scheduled to sunset in Jan. 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1307\">\u003cstrong>AB 1307 (Wicks):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The law makes clear that noise from students in university housing does not fall under the purview of the California Environmental Quality Act. It resulted from a California appeals court ruling in February that ruled it could. The case arose after a neighborhood group brought suit over UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/court-halts-uc-berkeley-housing-people-s-park-17805643.php\">plan to construct housing\u003c/a> for 1,100 students and more than 100 homeless residents at People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/legislation/ab-1633/\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633 (Ting):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> In 2021, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors failed to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/State-investigating-S-F-s-decision-to-reject-16573167.php\">500-unit housing project atop a parking lot\u003c/a>, claiming the project needed “further environmental study,” though it did not specify a clear direction for how to bring the project into compliance. AB 1633 clarifies that withholding clearance of a housing development that otherwise meets the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act is a violation of state housing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ADUs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB976\">\u003cstrong>AB 976 (Ting):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> When accessory dwelling units, also known as casitas, granny flats or in-law units, were first legalized, many local governments required they only be built on properties where the owner also lived, a rule that stymied construction. A 2019 bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB881\">AB 881\u003c/a>, made it illegal to require owners to live on-site. That was set to sunset in 2025, but AB 976 makes it permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1033\">\u003cstrong>AB 1033 (Ting)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Under this new law, local governments can allow property owners to sell an accessory dwelling unit separately from the primary residence, essentially turning that casita into a condominium.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA1\">\u003cstrong>ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: If voters approve this\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures\"> constitutional amendment\u003c/a> in November, it would lower the threshold to approve bonds and special taxes for affordable housing and public infrastructure projects from a two-thirds supermajority to 55%. If it passes, any bonds on the same ballot would be approved under the new threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">The original version of this report contained inaccurate data. Assembly Bill 1532 (Haney) did not pass the Legislature. The story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The past legislative session saw 56 housing bills signed into law, but whether the momentum can be sustained in 2024 is still an open question as the state faces a tough budget year and challenging home building environment. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704307485,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1788},"headData":{"title":"These New California Housing Laws Are Going Into Effect in 2024 | KQED","description":"The past legislative session saw 56 housing bills signed into law, but whether the momentum can be sustained in 2024 is still an open question as the state faces a tough budget year and challenging home building environment. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"These New California Housing Laws Are Going Into Effect in 2024","datePublished":"2024-01-02T12:00:09.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-03T18:44:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11970993/these-new-california-housing-laws-are-going-into-effect-in-2024","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#anchor\">This report contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, California lawmakers broke through a longstanding logjam of anti-housing sentiment, unleashing 15 landmark bills that sought to boost new construction across the state. Six years later, the 2023 legislative session saw 56 housing bills signed into law, evidence the tide has yet to turn on efforts to increase home affordability in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the controversial 2017 session — and the years of big housing battles that followed — 2023 was largely free of contentious fights over blockbuster bills, replaced with the steady shearing of restrictions on new housing and shoring up of protections designed to keep renters in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#housinghighlights\">Housing bill highlights from the 2023 Legislative session\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, spokesman for California YIMBY, which advocates for building more housing, said the lack of controversy has a simple explanation: There were more legislators from all the parts of the state carrying housing bills.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We do not have to accept the status quo of the intensifying housing and homelessness crisis that our communities are experiencing across the state.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Amie Fishman, executive director, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislature is essentially now pro-housing,” he said. “Pretty unequivocally and objectively, you can say that the legislature wants to solve the housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming year appears poised to continue the trend of incremental legislative change, in part because of how many bills have already been approved. More than \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/New-Pathways-to-Encourage-Housing-Production-Evaluating-Californias-Recent-Housing-Legislation-April-2023-Final-1.pdf\">100 housing production\u003c/a> laws have gone into effect since 2017, and new construction has indeed increased, with nearly 114,000 homes and apartment units permitted, on average, since 2018, up roughly 17% compared to the five-year average between 2013–2017, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://cbia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Housing-Production-2005-to-2022.pdf\">Construction Industry Research Board (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws to increase granny flats and backyard cottages have been particularly successful, with accessory dwelling units now accounting for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">10% of all housing units built since 2018\u003c/a> and 18% of all completed units in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11965492,news_11969623,news_11970242","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But despite this success, it hasn’t been enough to move the needle on affordability, which remains at historic lows. According to the California Association of Realtors, just \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/haitraditional\">15% of Californians\u003c/a> could afford the median-priced single-family home in 2023, down from \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/16/auto-draft-2/\">27% in 2018\u003c/a>. And more than half of all tenants \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/housingneeds/\">spent over a third of their income on rent\u003c/a>, indicating housing insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, homelessness increased — up nearly 40% since 2018, compared to an 18% rise nationally, according to the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">Department of Housing and Urban Development (PDF)\u003c/a>. And while California \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/HNR_CA_CHPC-Master2023-FINAL.pdf\">more than tripled the number of homes built (PDF)\u003c/a> for low-income renters between 2019 and 2022, it is still building only around 20% of its goals, according to the California Housing Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state stares down a projected \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/csac-bulletin-article/lao-releases-gloomy-2024-25-state-revenue-forecast#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%202024%2D25%20Budget,%2D23%20and%202023%2D24%20.\">$68 billion budget deficit\u003c/a>, securing additional funding will be especially critical in 2024, said Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. Her organization is currently working to put a $10 billion regional housing bond for the Bay Area on the ballot, which might coincide with another proposed $10 billion statewide housing bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already on the March 2024 ballot is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/12/governor-newsom-puts-historic-mental-health-transformation-on-march-2024-ballot/\">Prop 1\u003c/a>, a $6.38 billion bond championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to build new housing and treatment centers for people undergoing behavioral and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The forward motion [last] year was a reinforcement that we can make forward progress, that there are solutions, that we can make a difference,” she said. “We do not have to accept the status quo of the intensifying housing and homelessness crisis that our communities are experiencing across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed funding comes amid a tough environment for builders, renters and home buyers alike as high interest rates and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-loses-four-home-insurance-companies-18457381.php\">struggling insurance market\u003c/a> continue to drive up housing costs.\u003cbr>\nHome prices are expected to continue to grow at a roughly 6% pace in 2024, said Sanjay Wagle, head of government affairs for the California Association of Realtors. He said the supply of homes for sale will likely improve, but not enough to offset the corresponding increase in demand that is expected to be further boosted by decreasing mortgage rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Howard, with the California Apartment Association, said uncertainty in the job market could lead to uncertainty in the rental market. But, with mortgage rates still higher than they had been in the past, some would-be homebuyers will choose to continue renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it’ll be an interesting 2024,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the housing bills going into effect in 2024:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"housinghighlights\">\u003c/a>Housing Production\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB4\">\u003cstrong>SB 4 (Wiener):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922784/california-churches-want-to-build-affordable-housing-on-their-land-so-why-is-it-so-hard\">third year was the charm\u003c/a> for the so-called “Yes in God’s Backyard” law. It allows 100% affordable housing developments to be built on land owned by religious institutions and nonprofit colleges or universities. It also exempts those projects from the California Environmental Quality Act and requires construction workers to be paid the prevailing wage. The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley estimates \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/faith-based-and-college-land-housing/\">171,000 acres of developable land\u003c/a> would be eligible to take advantage of the new law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423 (Wiener)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> In 2017, lawmakers passed SB 35 as one of more than a dozen landmark housing bills. The law, which was set to sunset in 2026, requires cities to approve certain housing projects that meet minimum affordable housing requirements if the city has not met its state-mandated housing targets. Another \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Terner-Center-SB-35-Paper-August-2023-Final.pdf\">Terner Center report (PDF)\u003c/a> credited the bill with adding some 18,000 housing units between 2018 and 2021. SB 423 extends the provisions of SB 35 through 2036.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB684\">\u003cstrong>SB 684 (Caballero)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> The law streamlines the approval process for small, infill apartment buildings with up to 10 units on vacant lots in neighborhoods where apartments are already allowed. It also includes protections against demolishing existing rent-controlled or affordable housing. The bill initially included single-family neighborhoods, which tend to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning#:~:text=Single%2Dfamily%20zoning%20makes%20it,type%20of%20building%20as%20well.\">wealthier and whiter\u003c/a> than neighborhoods with existing apartment buildings, but that provision was later removed. Adam Briones, CEO of California Community Builders, said the move “reinforces an unfortunate message that many people of color still feel is true: Our neighborhoods matter less to those in power than wealthy, white neighborhoods. This echo of California’s discriminatory past will unfortunately make it harder to build support for housing production in communities of color.” Matthew Lewis from California YIMBY said his organization would be lobbying for a new bill in 2024 to allow small apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tenants’ Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB12\">\u003cstrong>AB 12 (Haney):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Landlords in California have been allowed to charge two months’ rent as a security deposit for unfurnished apartments or homes and up to three months’ rent for furnished ones. AB 12 limits security deposits to one month’s rent, regardless of whether the residential property is furnished or unfurnished. It goes into effect on July 1, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB567\">\u003cstrong>SB 567 (Durazo):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> In 2019, California lawmakers passed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482\">Tenant Protection Act\u003c/a>, which was hailed at the time as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-08/california-rent-cap-tenant-protections-signed\">strongest laws of its kind in the nation\u003c/a>. It capped rent increases at 10% in most rental properties that were built at least 15 years ago and imposed new eviction protections. Many tenant activists, however, felt it didn’t go far enough. SB 567 sought to strengthen the eviction protections in the 2019 law by limiting so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945257/california-landlords-can-evict-renters-for-repairs-a-new-bill-could-limit-that\">renovictions\u003c/a>,” where landlords evict tenants to complete major repairs on the property. It also heightens the penalties for landlords who claim they are taking the property off the rental market only to re-rent the units, among other provisions. It goes into effect on April 1, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AB 1418 (McKinnor): \u003c/b>The law aims for “crime-free housing” policies, which often require landlords to evict or otherwise penalize tenants if they have been arrested or had a criminal conviction or refuse to rent to them in the first place. The policies have been shown to impact people of color disproportionately. The new law does not stop landlords from performing background checks, only city policies that require them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environmental Restrictions Removed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1449\">\u003cstrong>AB 1449 (Alvarez):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> This law exempts 100% affordable housing projects from the California Environmental Quality Act, which can delay projects for years. Christopher Martin, policy director for Housing California, described it as one of the most impactful bills of the year. “It’s going to open up a lot more affordable housing,” he said. The law is scheduled to sunset in Jan. 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1307\">\u003cstrong>AB 1307 (Wicks):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The law makes clear that noise from students in university housing does not fall under the purview of the California Environmental Quality Act. It resulted from a California appeals court ruling in February that ruled it could. The case arose after a neighborhood group brought suit over UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/court-halts-uc-berkeley-housing-people-s-park-17805643.php\">plan to construct housing\u003c/a> for 1,100 students and more than 100 homeless residents at People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/legislation/ab-1633/\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633 (Ting):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> In 2021, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors failed to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/State-investigating-S-F-s-decision-to-reject-16573167.php\">500-unit housing project atop a parking lot\u003c/a>, claiming the project needed “further environmental study,” though it did not specify a clear direction for how to bring the project into compliance. AB 1633 clarifies that withholding clearance of a housing development that otherwise meets the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act is a violation of state housing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ADUs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB976\">\u003cstrong>AB 976 (Ting):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> When accessory dwelling units, also known as casitas, granny flats or in-law units, were first legalized, many local governments required they only be built on properties where the owner also lived, a rule that stymied construction. A 2019 bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB881\">AB 881\u003c/a>, made it illegal to require owners to live on-site. That was set to sunset in 2025, but AB 976 makes it permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1033\">\u003cstrong>AB 1033 (Ting)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Under this new law, local governments can allow property owners to sell an accessory dwelling unit separately from the primary residence, essentially turning that casita into a condominium.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA1\">\u003cstrong>ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: If voters approve this\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures\"> constitutional amendment\u003c/a> in November, it would lower the threshold to approve bonds and special taxes for affordable housing and public infrastructure projects from a two-thirds supermajority to 55%. If it passes, any bonds on the same ballot would be approved under the new threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">The original version of this report contained inaccurate data. Assembly Bill 1532 (Haney) did not pass the Legislature. 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Some would say uncharacteristically so. Tell us why you decided not to talk to the press the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: You know I’ve just been trying to be respectful of the investigation and the process and there’s an ongoing investigation. I can’t really talk about that I can’t talk about personnel issues. And so I’ve just been sitting back letting people do their job and waiting to be cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: One of the things that came up in this investigation are the allegations against you I should say is this idea that you somehow sexually assaulted someone physically. Did you ever sexually assault anyone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I’ve never assaulted anyone physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Sexual or otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Sexual or otherwise. I try to treat everyone with dignity and respect. Similar to how I want to be treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: So this one gentleman says that you tried to grab his butt reached for his crotch, to be graphic about it. You never did that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Never.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: There’s another allegation that you played or encouraged people to play spin the bottle in a hotel room. Did you ever encourage anyone to play such a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I’ve never encouraged anyone to play spin the bottle and I’ve actually never played spin the bottle myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Never in your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Never.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: You’re not missing much…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Thanks (laughter)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: …to be perfectly honest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the other things that has come up in this… These accusations against you that you are an alcoholic or that you have some type of alcohol problem. Dan Gilleon, the attorney for the people who brought the claims against you, has not only told me that he believes you have an alcohol problem, and offered photographs to suggest that you do, but he said so very publicly. How do you respond to this idea that you have an alcohol problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: First and foremost I want to be clear that alcoholism is a serious disease and we need to be working and giving support to folks who are ready to deal with that. It’s something that is in my family as well it’s personal to me. And so there’s respect there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’m not an alcoholic, I drink, yes. There’s a culture of drinking in the Capitol and I’ve definitely participated in that. But I don’t think that makes you an alcoholic. But you know all I have to say is if I thought I was an alcoholic I would have already said that the same way I’m saying, ‘yes I drink.’\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m an angel.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: One of the things that these detractors have come out and said is that you had a keg in your office and that this keg is somehow evidence that you have a drinking problem. How do you respond to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I think that’s a similar saying ‘Do I have beer in my fridge and so I’m am alcoholic?’ Yes I have beer in my fridge. Yes. At some point I’ve had a keg at my office. A lot of us do. It’s part of the culture of socializing after the way business gets done. I think we can have a discussion about that and discuss whether or not that’s appropriate. But because you have alcohol or you are in the possession of alcohol doesn’t make you an alcoholic. I think that’s a really gross generalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: The other issue that came up was that you are someone who is very intense. You’re very intense to work for. You demand a lot from your employees and that you had them do things like pick up your dogs or household items that shouldn’t necessarily fall under the spectrum of what it means to work for a state representative. How do you respond to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I’ve been honest from the beginning and I put out a public statement that I do demand a lot of my staff. I have a lot of needs in my community. We have issues with lead. We have issues with arsenic. We have issues with corruption. We have a community that has been ignored for a long time. We have a lot of folks that need help with their Medi-Cal. They need help with the DMV, they need help with veterans issues. And so we are busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also are a district that hasn’t been very engaged, and so it’s been my goal to help educate, empower and engage my constituents. And so we’re out there on the grounds constantly trying to interact with my constituents, trying to make sure that they know we’re here for them. But also that they’re part of this and I need them to be engaged. And that’s how we’re going to become better leaders together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it is a demanding job that I have and I try to be fair. I try to provide support for my staff out there. They need breaks, we give it to them. So I think that’s not anything I’ve ever hidden. I work hard. I do a lot on a daily basis, whether it’s for my district, whether it’s for the women’s caucus, whether it’s on the policies that I’m pushing forward. You know I’m not shy. I pick fights on a regular basis to do the right thing looking for justice. And so I think that’s fair. That’s not a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"California State Assembly members Cristina Garcia (L) and Anthony Rendon in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. Garcia is the leader of the Legislative Women's Caucus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11649048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-960x626.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-520x339.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Assembly members Cristina Garcia (L) and Anthony Rendon in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. Garcia is the leader of the Legislative Women’s Caucus. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Is it true though that you did have staff do you things that would be considered domestic chores or anything… You’re shaking your head no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: No. We tried really hard to make sure that we have separation out there. Are there times where we’re in binds? Yeah there’s been times when I’m in a bind and I was like ‘I need you to do this. Can you help me out? You want to volunteer to help me out?’ And staff will do it. I think all of us as members do that when we’re out there working from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and it’s like, ‘Shoot you know what my dog sitter just canceled. Can you put the dog in the yard? Do you mind? They always have the option to say ‘no,’ including to the point where it wasn’t a regular thing and often times I’d come home and there’d be a mess here with the dogs. But I’ve had a dog sitter most years, and so it’s just those rare moments where my dog sitter’s not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that’s the only thing in there that I would say that… Am I demanding? Yes. At some point have I asked someone to get me out of a bind? Yes. I think we all do that on occasion. But it’s always been on a voluntary basis and it’s been very minimal. To the point where my mom always jokes that she’s my staff because I’m always asking my parents to run my personal errands for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: So this wasn’t a requirement or a condition of employment, as it’s been presented to me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Definitely not. And it was always a ‘volunteer if you wanted’ and it was a very rare occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I don’t use the word ‘faggot.’ It’s not in my vocabulary. Have I at some point used the word ‘homo’? Yeah I’ve used that word ‘homo.’ I don’t know that I’ve used it in derogatory context.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: The other thing I heard that I think might be concerning for some people both in the Capitol and perhaps in your district is this idea that you use slurs, or something other than respectful words to describe the former speaker who is gay. Did you ever use slurs like “faggot” or “homo”? Did you ever say anything like that to your staff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Oh I will be clear. There’s no one in politics that doesn’t talk about some of the peers we work with, and we use candid language. And so along the way I’ve used candid language. I curse. I mean I’ve been vocal about some of my favorite words, and I don’t know if I can say them on the radio, are “shit” and “fuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know I think if I would see staff who didn’t want to engage in that conversation, I would stop, but they never seemed to have any problem with it. But even then it’s pretty limited, but these are in places where you think you’re in a safe space and you could speak your mind and be vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t use the word ‘faggot.’ It’s not in my vocabulary. Have I at some point used the word ‘homo’? Yeah I’ve used that word ‘homo.’ I don’t know that I’ve used it in derogatory context. I think you need to think about the context in which it was used. But anything can be taken out of context clearly here in this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Well, I bring that up because I grew up in a neighborhood where – the word “homo” for example, people still say “no homo” as a way to express their identities of masculinity. And as I was telling you before we started, this neighborhood where we’re located right now is very similar to my neighborhood. The reason I’m asking you this though, is there’s what has been presented to me is this question of whether these words were used in a professional setting, and whether they made people uncomfortable. So did you ever use that to describe the speaker, the word “homo?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I can’t remember but I wouldn’t be surprised if I used that word. Right? So I think that that’s fair. I think terms like ‘faggot’ are period derogatory. There’s no good way to use that word. I think a term like ‘homo’ can also be derogatory, right? I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m an angel. Was I using those as derogatory terms? No. It’s almost like I would say I’m a brown person sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Am I perfect? I think all of us at some point have biases, but I try to be open and accepting of all communities including the LGBT community and I think you could look at my voting record, look at the advocacy I’ve been doing well before I was elected in conjunction not just with the LGBT community, but with communities that have been marginalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: If you didn’t commit these — this act of sexual assault — and to be very clear you’ve been a leader in the #MeToo movement in Sacramento – but if you didn’t commit these acts of sexual harassment and sexual assault, why do you think people are saying this against you? You surely have had the time to think about why this is happening. What reason do you give for it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I think this is about shutting me up. Making sure that my advocacy stops. Making sure that I don’t ensure that my community has a voice. And it’s not just shutting me up, or shutting people like me up. Whether it’s on the #MeToo movement, whether it’s on environmental justice or whatever injustices that are out there, I have been very vocal. I’m not afraid to take on fights. I do the work that other people don’t want to do. I think you know I’ve been very critical. I want to make sure we have a high standard. I want to make sure we’re running with ethics. I have been fighting against corruption. I think along the way my work speaks for itself and why I’ve accumulated some enemies. But I think more than anything, over the last few years, I’ve started to be effective. I’ve started to get things done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started to make sure that when we talk about the environmental movement, I’m not just talking about the pristine mountains and the good ocean, but I’m talking about the health issues that communities like mine are dealing with. Communities that have been treated like wastelands for all my life. For the first time we’re going to start to identify those hotspots and start to change that situation. I started to bring attention to the chromium 6 issue and how that poisons us on a regular basis. What does that mean? That means that some of these businesses may be in danger. That means that some of these jobs that make us sick might go away. And we’ve been told that I have to pick between bad jobs that make me sick, but pay me. And what I’m saying is I shouldn’t have to pick between my health and my job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why can’t I have some good green jobs like the rest of the communities that are out there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do I have to settle for shit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so I’m starting to finally move the pendulum in a direction for communities that have been ignored. And this is about making sure I don’t have any more advocacy. That I don’t have any more voice. And it sends a message to people that I have mentored. I spend a lot of time trying to create advocates in the community. That’s my legacy. To make sure they’re told ‘if you rise up and you speak up this is going to happen you. So sit down and don’t say anything.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it’s happening right now, because what’s happening is that I’m home. I’m being respectful of the process. These people are trying to extend the timeline. The Assembly is taking it seriously. But in the meantime I’m not doing work. I’m not fighting on Exide. We have real issues there to clean that up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not fighting on the lead and paint companies as they’re trying to make the consumers pay for their bad doings. I am not working on the #MeToo movement. I’m not working to make sure we have safer work environments. I’m not working to get rid of the the tax on tampons. I’m not working to make sure our kids are safer. There’s a lot of things that I’m not working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then on top of it all, my community and our regular day-to-day interaction where we try to empower them and engage them and then more importantly celebrate them, isn’t happening. Right? I didn’t have my “Pride of the 58 Gala.” This area is dubbed ‘the corridor of corruption,’ it’s known for its bad air quality. But it has a lot of good people and we celebrate them on a monthly basis. We have a gala for them, and that didn’t happen now. I didn’t get to participate in Woman of the Year and celebrate the heroes of our communities. I didn’t get to do my Cesar Chavez – Larry Elong celebration where we celebrate the two cultures coming together and how important that’s been to our communities. I don’t get to do my walk and talks. We go out there and I knock on doors. I bring services to my constituents. I don’t get to do any of that. And so I think more than anything my constituents are confused. They don’t know if they can show up to my office for services that they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me be clear, offices are open whether or not I’m there and we’re there for constituent services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s really a disservice to my constituents. It’s a disservice to the works I work with, and to the good work that needs to be done for these communities. And to me this is about shutting me up. And shutting people like me up. And I will say this is not about me. I hope that folks out there who have been marginalized who have felt empowered the last few years continue to do the good work and we continue to fight and have that voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Let’s talk a little bit about how you feel that you’ve been silenced. Why is it that you decided not to continue your work in the Legislature, and how has it affected your campaign for re-election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: If we were in any other private setting — I was a teacher for 13 years and that’s usually my examples — I would have been put on administrative leave immediately, because first and foremost you want to make sure that everyone’s safe. And then once we get the facts together and we have a conclusion they make decisions. So for me it just felt like I should be treated the same as anyone else who’s not in this job. And all the other industries. And so for me it just made sense that I was going to put myself on a leave. No one asked me to do it. I didn’t expect this to go on this long. You know, people initially told me this will take a couple of weeks. It’s almost two months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the reality has changed and it is frustrating that I’m not working. That I’m not being the voice that I’m used to being out there, that I’m having to be silenced this way. It means that people are winning and when I’m silenced. But I felt it was the right thing to do. I think at this point, we have to have that discussion of ‘Is this the best way to proceed? Is it ok to have half a million people without representation? Is it ok not to have these issues, you know, brought up in the Capitol, whether it’s clean air issues?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one’s going to make sure my bills are being properly implemented out there, and so I don’t get to participate in that. So that’s my legacy and it is frustrating because it’s my legacy but it’s also the clean air that I want to breathe one day. It’s the lack of lead that I want to have in my community so that kids are able to learn and grow. We know all that lead around us doesn’t allow us to learn. And then we show up at school and we’re behind, and we have these developmental issues because of the environment we grew up in. I would like that to end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Let’s go back to the investigation. You said it was going to be a few weeks, you were told apparently it was going to be a few weeks. It is now a few months. I’ve been told through my sources — and I don’t know if this is where you heard — that it’s going to be at least another six weeks. Do you have any idea how long this is going to continue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: This has a process, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to be clear. It’s not that there’s not a process here. But the timeline that it takes the investigator to do their job — where there’s no guarantees. For lots of reasons. But it’s hard on her because when you have anonymous sources that are refusing to come forward to speak to her in a confidential manner, she’s out there running in circles trying to figure out how to decide if these claims are real or not and how to do her job. When you have anonymous sources that are taking months to even respond to something — you have anonymous sources that are choosing to, you know, dribble out information. Again most of these are anonymous sources. Every time, she’s like, well I have to include this somehow, and it adds time. And so I feel confident that she’s trying to do her job as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: It sounds like you’re almost empathetic with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: No, it’s not empathetic. It’s respectful. It’s respectful. And I think she’s taking her job seriously. I take this seriously as well. I feel like people are playing a game and they’re not taking it seriously, and this game is at the expense of my constituency and advocacy, and advocacy groups that need my voice out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: One thing, you just reminded me, when you were telling me about “the dribble,” was that an anonymous source actually sent me through Signal copies of texts that you had that appear to be flirty. Did you ever send flirty texts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Have you sent flirty texts? I think most of us have at some point. It’s not a crime. It’s not a crime and it’s something that happens in all kinds of settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Getting back to this idea that you’re being silenced. How is this affecting your run for re-election? Are you campaigning during this time or are you showing up at events in your community? You said that there were a whole host of events you couldn’t go to. Why can’t you still show up for them as a private citizen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I can show up to things as a private citizen, but when I show up I’m not just a private citizen. Everyone knows who I am. I am Cristina Garcia, a state assemblymember that’s worked really hard to have a footprint in this community. And I think that’s naïve to think I could just show up. And people expect me to show up and they want me to have that voice out there, right? But I till have a title no matter what, and a leave is a leave, and I’m being respectful of that. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have a campaign to run. I do. I have an election in June and I have to get through that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Are you fundraising?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I haven’t been fundraising. You know I’ve been making decisions based on this timeline that this will be over in a timely manner. And because I feel that we all deserve answers but at some point you know time is running out and I’m going to be forced to get out there. I’m going to be forced to campaign. I’m going to be forced to fundraise, and I’m going to be forced to tell folks ‘Take the plunge with me, without answers. Not because I don’t want you to have them, but that’s out of my control. I’d like to give you all the answers if possible, but I’m allowing the investigator to do their job.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again I have been responsive, I have been participating in anything that they have asked me to, which has been limited actually. And these anonymous sources have refused to come forward. And so how does she do her job? When do we say “enough” with the anonymous sources? We need some real dates and some real situations and some names. How am I supposed to defend myself to anonymous sources?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me also be clear — as an elected official, as a public figure — I can’t even use like ‘Oh I’m going to sue someone.’ People have asked me ‘Why haven’t you sued anyone?’ I say well, they’re anonymous. And the standard for these lawsuits is really hard for a public official. I really can’t win that. But I could be sued, and I can lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: You would have to be able to prove that things beyond a reasonable doubt were not only demonstrably false, but designed to hurt you. That’s a very high standard like you were saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that I per se agree with this line of thinking, but I have heard many “men’s rights activists” say a lot of the same things that you’re saying right now. That when people make claims against alleged sexual harassers or alleged sexual assaulters, that many of these claims are allowed to be anonymous to protect the victim. That the investigation takes a long time and that this disrupts life for a long, long time. I wonder if you see any bit of irony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I don’t see any irony. I mean I have said constantly that everything should be taken seriously and the investigators should do their job. That’s why I’ve just been sitting back and you know letting her do her job and I haven’t been attending anything and I’ve been quiet. And so I think there’s no irony. I, you know, I’m being consistent from the beginning to the end of that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: I imagine it must be frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Yeah you definitely get frustrated. I mostly get frustrated that I don’t get to get out there and do the work that I was going to do. I have a package of bills that I didn’t get to introduce, issues that I think are important for us to be discussing out there that other people are not discussing. Some of the bills I was going to introduce thankfully got picked up by other members. But there’s issues that are still out there that no one’s talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example I’ve been working on stealthing. A crime, trying to make a crime to remove a condom without permission. No one’s working on that. I’ve been working on…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: You’re talking about a condom during the intercourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: During intercourse, yes. I’ve been working on trying to remove the tax on tampons. No one’s working on that. I’ve been working on trying to get money to turn brownfields — these are contaminated fields that are just sitting there, blighting communities — finding money to try to clean them up to become open spaces and parks. In communities like mine that’s a big deal. I have a lot of brownfields but I’m really park poor. It’s work I’m not doing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been trying to do work for my cities. They have needs, specifically related to budget and bills that I can’t work on. I was going to be working on abandoned wells — oil wells — and how do we make sure that they’re being cleaned up properly and that they’re not making us sick anymore. That’s work that no one’s doing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For my constituents who are out there, I think that they should know that my office is open for any services that they need. And that they should be vocal about what they want and what they want from this process, and make that clear to the Legislature and to the public. They should be clear about the burden that’s being put on them by individuals who are playing a game. And what it means to not have an advocate out there working for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are getting ready to work on the budget, and I’m not there to make sure my district gets their piece of the pie. And I think at some point, while I’ve been out here trying to sit back, we need to think about ‘is it fair that my district keeps missing out on these opportunities to get their fair share of the pie?’ Or ‘do we have to find other ways to make sure that they get what they need, and there’s an advocate for them?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are women running for office right now that I would normally be helping. You know, we have opportunities to grow the Women’s Caucus. We’re only at 22 percent in the Legislature. Those are women that I can’t fundraise for, that I can’t advocate for. There are real consequences to this. Know that I’m taking this seriously. I’m eager to get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m here today to cooperate. I am confident I’m going to be cleared at the end of this. It’s just a matter of when that happens and I hope it’s sooner than later. And I’m not confident because there’s any sort of special treatment to me. I think I’ve proven through my actions that we should have a higher standard and I’m holding myself to that standard. But I’m confident because I’m innocent. I didn’t do these things. I treat people with dignity every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, you know, I am guilty of having a big mouth. Being outspoken and speaking truth. And that pisses off a lot of people. And it’s about power. And maybe I’m finally starting to get things done and that power structure is being disturbed, and they’re going to do everything they can to make sure things stay the way they are. And communities like mine don’t get their piece of the pie. And I’m going to fight. I’m going to fight. It is not about me, it’s about my community and the need to have the work I’ve been doing. And so I’m going to fight hard and I hope folks out there fight with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: One last question about this, this kind of waiting period. Did Democrats ask you not to come to the convention in San Diego this year, or did you decide not to go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: No. No one has asked me anything. This is a decision I have made for myself. And again, I take this seriously and I’m trying to hold myself to the standard that we would in any other setting that’s not this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the irony is that as an elected official, as an assemblymember, a member of the California Legislature, we are the sixth biggest economy. We have a lot of power. And things are usually unbalanced on our behalf. And that’s something I’ve always been very aware of. That power. And I always try to use that power to make sure I empower others around me and I tell them, ‘You shouldn’t have to know an assemblymember for the system to work for you. But let’s take advantage of it when needed.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these situations, the balance is tipped the other way. Where anonymous sources and special interests, people that are playing the game, can really silence an individual and take away power from a community like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And normally we wouldn’t see this, but they’re able to take something, make it a tool through innuendos, through allegations that are false, through being anonymous, through trying to paint whatever picture they want. And I can’t defend myself because I’m not going to open myself up to that liability. I just have to sit back and let the investigation take its course. No matter how long that is. And so that’s the irony of the situation here. This is about power, and they’ve done a good job, because at least temporarily my power has been taken away and I’ve been silenced. And my advocacy isn’t happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: So based on the conversation we’ve had today, I kind of imagine you getting on a motorcycle and taking revenge “Kill Bill” style when you’re reinstated. That doesn’t seem doable, at least legally. How are you going to handle it moving forward? And are you keeping names right now of the people who supported you and didn’t in Sacramento?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: None of that matters. I have to have an open door and I have to work with everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t forget — but the best revenge is getting back there and continuing the good work that I’m doing, on behalf of women, on behalf of working class communities, on behalf of communities like mine that have been wastelands for all my life. And in getting those good jobs in my community and getting rid of the dirty jobs. That’s the best revenge. And so when I get back, I could spend my time trying to get back at people, or I can spend my energy and my power on trying to get my community what they need and being the voice that I’ve always been. And so that’s going to take discipline because yeah I’m human and sometimes — you know you want to have those moments — but it doesn’t get me anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t get me anything, and it’s squandering an opportunity to do the good work for my community, to make sure I change the culture here. To make sure I have more ethical local elected officials. To make sure I have cleaner air and have clean water. To make sure I have a constituency that knows how to navigate the system and are able to advocate for themselves, and are able to work with us on a day-to-day basis to get what they need. To make sure I’m getting a fair share of the budget down here on a regular basis with things that I need. That’s the best revenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making sure that my voice and the voice of other advocates like me is out there and it gets stronger. And I think that’s a much better use of my time out there, and so if I’m making plans, my plans are about how am I going to get my bills done, and how am I going to make sure that the good work that needs to be done continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Do you think — you’re assuming that you do get to go back. So you assume that this this, you believe that this investigation is not going to produce anything that’s going to require you to either resign or be sidelined further?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I — again I have — I am confident in the results because I know I’m innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Do you go back to Sacramento a weaker Cristina Garcia because of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: These moments change you. You don’t have to go back a weaker Cristina Garcia, you go back a smarter Cristina Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You take advantage of the situation, and you learn and you grow and you do better. But I’m scrappy. If you are from a community like this, if you’re a woman of color and you’ve risen to any ranks of power, you have had to figure it out and overcome barriers by being innovative about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so I just have to learn some new tricks, and so I don’t think that this weakens me. I think the situation has taught me some new tricks. It has also exposed some allies and some enemies out there that maybe I wasn’t aware of, and having that information makes me smarter also, and stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Assemblymember, is there anything else I should ask her or that you want to cover? Or is there anything that you didn’t think was fair that I asked?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: No no no. Just, you know, this process needs to get done because the real injustice here is that my community doesn’t have a voice and I don’t get to be the advocate that they elected me to be. And so I hope that the people that are playing these games take this seriously like I have, and help move this investigation along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong> [to Leo Briones, Garcia’s spokesman]: Leo is there anything else you think should be covered?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIONES\u003c/strong>: No, I think we’re good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: I just want to make sure I give you all ample opportunity. You want to take five minutes and that way y’all can think about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIONES AND GARCIA\u003c/strong>: No, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: OK. Assembly Member Garcia, thank you so much for joining us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Yes thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to The California Report’s daily podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Garcia and her allies say political opponents started a campaign to discredit her soon after she emerged as a leader in the #MeToo movement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690401698,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":108,"wordCount":6700},"headData":{"title":"Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia Denies Groping and Harassment, But Not Sending Flirty Texts | KQED","description":"Garcia and her allies say political opponents started a campaign to discredit her soon after she emerged as a leader in the #MeToo movement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia Denies Groping and Harassment, But Not Sending Flirty Texts","datePublished":"2018-03-27T00:44:19.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-26T20:01:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"authorsData":[{"type":"authors","id":"11298","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"11298","found":true},"name":"John Sepulvado","firstName":"John","lastName":"Sepulvado","slug":"jsepulvado","email":"jsepulvado@KQED.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":[],"title":null,"bio":"John Sepulvado is a former morning host of \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em>. Prior to joining KQED in September 2016, John was the local host of NPR’s \u003cem>Weekend Edition\u003c/em> at Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). He has also served as a producer for America Public Media’s \u003cem>Marketplace Weekend\u003c/em> and worked as a national correspondent for CNN and as news director at WUSF in Tampa, Florida. John has earned prestigious RTDNA Murrow and PRNDI awards for investigative reporting, and helped CNN take home a Peabody Award for coverage of the 2010 Gulf oil spill. John attended Florida A&M in Tallahassee and is also a member of Phi Theta Kappa. He left KQED in 2019.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b976d3c4cf11750a793b670e5acb7a1c?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"news","roles":["author","edit_others_posts"]}],"headData":{"title":"John Sepulvado | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b976d3c4cf11750a793b670e5acb7a1c?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b976d3c4cf11750a793b670e5acb7a1c?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/jsepulvado"}],"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/CristinaGarcia-1020x808.jpg","width":1020,"height":808,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/CristinaGarcia-1020x808.jpg","width":1020,"height":808,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"},"tagData":{"tags":["Cristina Garcia","featured","isanyoneup","MeToo","sexual assault","sexual harassment","the-california-report-featured"]}},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/03/GarciaFullInterview.mp3","path":"/news/11658070/assemblywoman-cristina-garcia-denies-groping-and-harassment-but-not-sending-flirty-texts","audioDuration":1655000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Thursday, March 22, Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia sat down with KQED’s The California Report for an extensive interview about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648927/leader-of-legislative-womens-caucus-accused-of-sexual-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations she sexually assaulted and harassed\u003c/a> legislative staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia and her allies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651502/garcia-camp-alleges-political-smear-while-alleged-harassment-victims-prepare-to-sue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been pushing back against the allegations\u003c/a>, saying political opponents started a campaign to discredit her soon after she emerged as a leader in the state Capitol’s #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interview was conducted in her district of Bell Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: You have been very quiet. Some would say uncharacteristically so. Tell us why you decided not to talk to the press the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: You know I’ve just been trying to be respectful of the investigation and the process and there’s an ongoing investigation. I can’t really talk about that I can’t talk about personnel issues. And so I’ve just been sitting back letting people do their job and waiting to be cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: One of the things that came up in this investigation are the allegations against you I should say is this idea that you somehow sexually assaulted someone physically. Did you ever sexually assault anyone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I’ve never assaulted anyone physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Sexual or otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Sexual or otherwise. I try to treat everyone with dignity and respect. Similar to how I want to be treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: So this one gentleman says that you tried to grab his butt reached for his crotch, to be graphic about it. You never did that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Never.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: There’s another allegation that you played or encouraged people to play spin the bottle in a hotel room. Did you ever encourage anyone to play such a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I’ve never encouraged anyone to play spin the bottle and I’ve actually never played spin the bottle myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Never in your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Never.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: You’re not missing much…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Thanks (laughter)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: …to be perfectly honest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the other things that has come up in this… These accusations against you that you are an alcoholic or that you have some type of alcohol problem. Dan Gilleon, the attorney for the people who brought the claims against you, has not only told me that he believes you have an alcohol problem, and offered photographs to suggest that you do, but he said so very publicly. How do you respond to this idea that you have an alcohol problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: First and foremost I want to be clear that alcoholism is a serious disease and we need to be working and giving support to folks who are ready to deal with that. It’s something that is in my family as well it’s personal to me. And so there’s respect there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’m not an alcoholic, I drink, yes. There’s a culture of drinking in the Capitol and I’ve definitely participated in that. But I don’t think that makes you an alcoholic. But you know all I have to say is if I thought I was an alcoholic I would have already said that the same way I’m saying, ‘yes I drink.’\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m an angel.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: One of the things that these detractors have come out and said is that you had a keg in your office and that this keg is somehow evidence that you have a drinking problem. How do you respond to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I think that’s a similar saying ‘Do I have beer in my fridge and so I’m am alcoholic?’ Yes I have beer in my fridge. Yes. At some point I’ve had a keg at my office. A lot of us do. It’s part of the culture of socializing after the way business gets done. I think we can have a discussion about that and discuss whether or not that’s appropriate. But because you have alcohol or you are in the possession of alcohol doesn’t make you an alcoholic. I think that’s a really gross generalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: The other issue that came up was that you are someone who is very intense. You’re very intense to work for. You demand a lot from your employees and that you had them do things like pick up your dogs or household items that shouldn’t necessarily fall under the spectrum of what it means to work for a state representative. How do you respond to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I’ve been honest from the beginning and I put out a public statement that I do demand a lot of my staff. I have a lot of needs in my community. We have issues with lead. We have issues with arsenic. We have issues with corruption. We have a community that has been ignored for a long time. We have a lot of folks that need help with their Medi-Cal. They need help with the DMV, they need help with veterans issues. And so we are busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also are a district that hasn’t been very engaged, and so it’s been my goal to help educate, empower and engage my constituents. And so we’re out there on the grounds constantly trying to interact with my constituents, trying to make sure that they know we’re here for them. But also that they’re part of this and I need them to be engaged. And that’s how we’re going to become better leaders together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it is a demanding job that I have and I try to be fair. I try to provide support for my staff out there. They need breaks, we give it to them. So I think that’s not anything I’ve ever hidden. I work hard. I do a lot on a daily basis, whether it’s for my district, whether it’s for the women’s caucus, whether it’s on the policies that I’m pushing forward. You know I’m not shy. I pick fights on a regular basis to do the right thing looking for justice. And so I think that’s fair. That’s not a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"California State Assembly members Cristina Garcia (L) and Anthony Rendon in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. Garcia is the leader of the Legislative Women's Caucus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11649048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-960x626.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia-520x339.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Garcia.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Assembly members Cristina Garcia (L) and Anthony Rendon in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. Garcia is the leader of the Legislative Women’s Caucus. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Is it true though that you did have staff do you things that would be considered domestic chores or anything… You’re shaking your head no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: No. We tried really hard to make sure that we have separation out there. Are there times where we’re in binds? Yeah there’s been times when I’m in a bind and I was like ‘I need you to do this. Can you help me out? You want to volunteer to help me out?’ And staff will do it. I think all of us as members do that when we’re out there working from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and it’s like, ‘Shoot you know what my dog sitter just canceled. Can you put the dog in the yard? Do you mind? They always have the option to say ‘no,’ including to the point where it wasn’t a regular thing and often times I’d come home and there’d be a mess here with the dogs. But I’ve had a dog sitter most years, and so it’s just those rare moments where my dog sitter’s not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that’s the only thing in there that I would say that… Am I demanding? Yes. At some point have I asked someone to get me out of a bind? Yes. I think we all do that on occasion. But it’s always been on a voluntary basis and it’s been very minimal. To the point where my mom always jokes that she’s my staff because I’m always asking my parents to run my personal errands for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: So this wasn’t a requirement or a condition of employment, as it’s been presented to me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Definitely not. And it was always a ‘volunteer if you wanted’ and it was a very rare occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I don’t use the word ‘faggot.’ It’s not in my vocabulary. Have I at some point used the word ‘homo’? Yeah I’ve used that word ‘homo.’ I don’t know that I’ve used it in derogatory context.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: The other thing I heard that I think might be concerning for some people both in the Capitol and perhaps in your district is this idea that you use slurs, or something other than respectful words to describe the former speaker who is gay. Did you ever use slurs like “faggot” or “homo”? Did you ever say anything like that to your staff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Oh I will be clear. There’s no one in politics that doesn’t talk about some of the peers we work with, and we use candid language. And so along the way I’ve used candid language. I curse. I mean I’ve been vocal about some of my favorite words, and I don’t know if I can say them on the radio, are “shit” and “fuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know I think if I would see staff who didn’t want to engage in that conversation, I would stop, but they never seemed to have any problem with it. But even then it’s pretty limited, but these are in places where you think you’re in a safe space and you could speak your mind and be vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t use the word ‘faggot.’ It’s not in my vocabulary. Have I at some point used the word ‘homo’? Yeah I’ve used that word ‘homo.’ I don’t know that I’ve used it in derogatory context. I think you need to think about the context in which it was used. But anything can be taken out of context clearly here in this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Well, I bring that up because I grew up in a neighborhood where – the word “homo” for example, people still say “no homo” as a way to express their identities of masculinity. And as I was telling you before we started, this neighborhood where we’re located right now is very similar to my neighborhood. The reason I’m asking you this though, is there’s what has been presented to me is this question of whether these words were used in a professional setting, and whether they made people uncomfortable. So did you ever use that to describe the speaker, the word “homo?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I can’t remember but I wouldn’t be surprised if I used that word. Right? So I think that that’s fair. I think terms like ‘faggot’ are period derogatory. There’s no good way to use that word. I think a term like ‘homo’ can also be derogatory, right? I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m an angel. Was I using those as derogatory terms? No. It’s almost like I would say I’m a brown person sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Am I perfect? I think all of us at some point have biases, but I try to be open and accepting of all communities including the LGBT community and I think you could look at my voting record, look at the advocacy I’ve been doing well before I was elected in conjunction not just with the LGBT community, but with communities that have been marginalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: If you didn’t commit these — this act of sexual assault — and to be very clear you’ve been a leader in the #MeToo movement in Sacramento – but if you didn’t commit these acts of sexual harassment and sexual assault, why do you think people are saying this against you? You surely have had the time to think about why this is happening. What reason do you give for it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I think this is about shutting me up. Making sure that my advocacy stops. Making sure that I don’t ensure that my community has a voice. And it’s not just shutting me up, or shutting people like me up. Whether it’s on the #MeToo movement, whether it’s on environmental justice or whatever injustices that are out there, I have been very vocal. I’m not afraid to take on fights. I do the work that other people don’t want to do. I think you know I’ve been very critical. I want to make sure we have a high standard. I want to make sure we’re running with ethics. I have been fighting against corruption. I think along the way my work speaks for itself and why I’ve accumulated some enemies. But I think more than anything, over the last few years, I’ve started to be effective. I’ve started to get things done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started to make sure that when we talk about the environmental movement, I’m not just talking about the pristine mountains and the good ocean, but I’m talking about the health issues that communities like mine are dealing with. Communities that have been treated like wastelands for all my life. For the first time we’re going to start to identify those hotspots and start to change that situation. I started to bring attention to the chromium 6 issue and how that poisons us on a regular basis. What does that mean? That means that some of these businesses may be in danger. That means that some of these jobs that make us sick might go away. And we’ve been told that I have to pick between bad jobs that make me sick, but pay me. And what I’m saying is I shouldn’t have to pick between my health and my job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why can’t I have some good green jobs like the rest of the communities that are out there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do I have to settle for shit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so I’m starting to finally move the pendulum in a direction for communities that have been ignored. And this is about making sure I don’t have any more advocacy. That I don’t have any more voice. And it sends a message to people that I have mentored. I spend a lot of time trying to create advocates in the community. That’s my legacy. To make sure they’re told ‘if you rise up and you speak up this is going to happen you. So sit down and don’t say anything.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it’s happening right now, because what’s happening is that I’m home. I’m being respectful of the process. These people are trying to extend the timeline. The Assembly is taking it seriously. But in the meantime I’m not doing work. I’m not fighting on Exide. We have real issues there to clean that up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not fighting on the lead and paint companies as they’re trying to make the consumers pay for their bad doings. I am not working on the #MeToo movement. I’m not working to make sure we have safer work environments. I’m not working to get rid of the the tax on tampons. I’m not working to make sure our kids are safer. There’s a lot of things that I’m not working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then on top of it all, my community and our regular day-to-day interaction where we try to empower them and engage them and then more importantly celebrate them, isn’t happening. Right? I didn’t have my “Pride of the 58 Gala.” This area is dubbed ‘the corridor of corruption,’ it’s known for its bad air quality. But it has a lot of good people and we celebrate them on a monthly basis. We have a gala for them, and that didn’t happen now. I didn’t get to participate in Woman of the Year and celebrate the heroes of our communities. I didn’t get to do my Cesar Chavez – Larry Elong celebration where we celebrate the two cultures coming together and how important that’s been to our communities. I don’t get to do my walk and talks. We go out there and I knock on doors. I bring services to my constituents. I don’t get to do any of that. And so I think more than anything my constituents are confused. They don’t know if they can show up to my office for services that they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me be clear, offices are open whether or not I’m there and we’re there for constituent services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s really a disservice to my constituents. It’s a disservice to the works I work with, and to the good work that needs to be done for these communities. And to me this is about shutting me up. And shutting people like me up. And I will say this is not about me. I hope that folks out there who have been marginalized who have felt empowered the last few years continue to do the good work and we continue to fight and have that voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Let’s talk a little bit about how you feel that you’ve been silenced. Why is it that you decided not to continue your work in the Legislature, and how has it affected your campaign for re-election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: If we were in any other private setting — I was a teacher for 13 years and that’s usually my examples — I would have been put on administrative leave immediately, because first and foremost you want to make sure that everyone’s safe. And then once we get the facts together and we have a conclusion they make decisions. So for me it just felt like I should be treated the same as anyone else who’s not in this job. And all the other industries. And so for me it just made sense that I was going to put myself on a leave. No one asked me to do it. I didn’t expect this to go on this long. You know, people initially told me this will take a couple of weeks. It’s almost two months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the reality has changed and it is frustrating that I’m not working. That I’m not being the voice that I’m used to being out there, that I’m having to be silenced this way. It means that people are winning and when I’m silenced. But I felt it was the right thing to do. I think at this point, we have to have that discussion of ‘Is this the best way to proceed? Is it ok to have half a million people without representation? Is it ok not to have these issues, you know, brought up in the Capitol, whether it’s clean air issues?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one’s going to make sure my bills are being properly implemented out there, and so I don’t get to participate in that. So that’s my legacy and it is frustrating because it’s my legacy but it’s also the clean air that I want to breathe one day. It’s the lack of lead that I want to have in my community so that kids are able to learn and grow. We know all that lead around us doesn’t allow us to learn. And then we show up at school and we’re behind, and we have these developmental issues because of the environment we grew up in. I would like that to end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Let’s go back to the investigation. You said it was going to be a few weeks, you were told apparently it was going to be a few weeks. It is now a few months. I’ve been told through my sources — and I don’t know if this is where you heard — that it’s going to be at least another six weeks. Do you have any idea how long this is going to continue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: This has a process, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to be clear. It’s not that there’s not a process here. But the timeline that it takes the investigator to do their job — where there’s no guarantees. For lots of reasons. But it’s hard on her because when you have anonymous sources that are refusing to come forward to speak to her in a confidential manner, she’s out there running in circles trying to figure out how to decide if these claims are real or not and how to do her job. When you have anonymous sources that are taking months to even respond to something — you have anonymous sources that are choosing to, you know, dribble out information. Again most of these are anonymous sources. Every time, she’s like, well I have to include this somehow, and it adds time. And so I feel confident that she’s trying to do her job as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: It sounds like you’re almost empathetic with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: No, it’s not empathetic. It’s respectful. It’s respectful. And I think she’s taking her job seriously. I take this seriously as well. I feel like people are playing a game and they’re not taking it seriously, and this game is at the expense of my constituency and advocacy, and advocacy groups that need my voice out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: One thing, you just reminded me, when you were telling me about “the dribble,” was that an anonymous source actually sent me through Signal copies of texts that you had that appear to be flirty. Did you ever send flirty texts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Have you sent flirty texts? I think most of us have at some point. It’s not a crime. It’s not a crime and it’s something that happens in all kinds of settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Getting back to this idea that you’re being silenced. How is this affecting your run for re-election? Are you campaigning during this time or are you showing up at events in your community? You said that there were a whole host of events you couldn’t go to. Why can’t you still show up for them as a private citizen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I can show up to things as a private citizen, but when I show up I’m not just a private citizen. Everyone knows who I am. I am Cristina Garcia, a state assemblymember that’s worked really hard to have a footprint in this community. And I think that’s naïve to think I could just show up. And people expect me to show up and they want me to have that voice out there, right? But I till have a title no matter what, and a leave is a leave, and I’m being respectful of that. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have a campaign to run. I do. I have an election in June and I have to get through that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: Are you fundraising?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I haven’t been fundraising. You know I’ve been making decisions based on this timeline that this will be over in a timely manner. And because I feel that we all deserve answers but at some point you know time is running out and I’m going to be forced to get out there. I’m going to be forced to campaign. I’m going to be forced to fundraise, and I’m going to be forced to tell folks ‘Take the plunge with me, without answers. Not because I don’t want you to have them, but that’s out of my control. I’d like to give you all the answers if possible, but I’m allowing the investigator to do their job.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again I have been responsive, I have been participating in anything that they have asked me to, which has been limited actually. And these anonymous sources have refused to come forward. And so how does she do her job? When do we say “enough” with the anonymous sources? We need some real dates and some real situations and some names. How am I supposed to defend myself to anonymous sources?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me also be clear — as an elected official, as a public figure — I can’t even use like ‘Oh I’m going to sue someone.’ People have asked me ‘Why haven’t you sued anyone?’ I say well, they’re anonymous. And the standard for these lawsuits is really hard for a public official. I really can’t win that. But I could be sued, and I can lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: You would have to be able to prove that things beyond a reasonable doubt were not only demonstrably false, but designed to hurt you. That’s a very high standard like you were saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that I per se agree with this line of thinking, but I have heard many “men’s rights activists” say a lot of the same things that you’re saying right now. That when people make claims against alleged sexual harassers or alleged sexual assaulters, that many of these claims are allowed to be anonymous to protect the victim. That the investigation takes a long time and that this disrupts life for a long, long time. I wonder if you see any bit of irony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: I don’t see any irony. I mean I have said constantly that everything should be taken seriously and the investigators should do their job. That’s why I’ve just been sitting back and you know letting her do her job and I haven’t been attending anything and I’ve been quiet. And so I think there’s no irony. I, you know, I’m being consistent from the beginning to the end of that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED\u003c/strong>: I imagine it must be frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCIA\u003c/strong>: Yeah you definitely get frustrated. I mostly get frustrated that I don’t get to get out there and do the work that I was going to do. 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I am confident I’m going to be cleared at the end of this. It’s just a matter of when that happens and I hope it’s sooner than later. And I’m not confident because there’s any sort of special treatment to me. I think I’ve proven through my actions that we should have a higher standard and I’m holding myself to that standard. But I’m confident because I’m innocent. I didn’t do these things. I treat people with dignity every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, you know, I am guilty of having a big mouth. Being outspoken and speaking truth. And that pisses off a lot of people. And it’s about power. And maybe I’m finally starting to get things done and that power structure is being disturbed, and they’re going to do everything they can to make sure things stay the way they are. And communities like mine don’t get their piece of the pie. And I’m going to fight. I’m going to fight. It is not about me, it’s about my community and the need to have the work I’ve been doing. 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And in getting those good jobs in my community and getting rid of the dirty jobs. That’s the best revenge. And so when I get back, I could spend my time trying to get back at people, or I can spend my energy and my power on trying to get my community what they need and being the voice that I’ve always been. And so that’s going to take discipline because yeah I’m human and sometimes — you know you want to have those moments — but it doesn’t get me anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t get me anything, and it’s squandering an opportunity to do the good work for my community, to make sure I change the culture here. To make sure I have more ethical local elected officials. To make sure I have cleaner air and have clean water. To make sure I have a constituency that knows how to navigate the system and are able to advocate for themselves, and are able to work with us on a day-to-day basis to get what they need. 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