HAC 2022 Candidate Endorsements

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Written By Housing Action Coalition

To create pro-housing change we need bold pro-housing leaders who are committed to solving our state’s severe housing shortage, affordability, and displacement crisis.

To that end, here are the pro-housing candidates in critical local and state races HAC is proud to endorse for the November 8 election.

California State-Wide Offices

  • Governor – Gavin Newsom

  • Attorney General – Rob Bonta

California State Assembly

  • Assembly District 10 – Eric Guerra

  • Assembly District 14 – Tim Grayson

  • Assembly District 15 – Buffy Wicks

  • Assembly District 17 – Matt Haney

  • Assembly District 16 – Mia Bonta

  • Assembly District 20 – Shawn Kumagai

  • Assembly District 19 – Phil Ting

  • Assembly District 23 – Marc Berman

  • Assembly District 24 – Alex Lee

  • Assembly District 25 – Ash Kalra

  • Assembly District 26 – Evan Low

  • Assembly District 28 – Gail Pellerin

  • Assembly District 29 – Rob Rivas

  • Assembly District 39 – Juan Carrillo

  • Assembly District 47 – Christy Holstege

  • Assembly District 80 – David Alvarez

California State Senate

  • Senate District 8 – Dave Jones

  • Senate District 10 – Aisha Wahab

  • Senate District 20 – Caroline Menjivar

  • Senate District 38 – Catherine Blakespear

San Francisco

  • SF Board of Supervisors District 2 – Catherine Stefani

  • SF Board of Supervisors District 4 – Joel Engardio

  • SF Board of Supervisors District 6 – Matt Dorsey

  • BART Board (District 8) – Janice Li

Alameda

  • Mayor – Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft

  • City Council (2 seats) – Jim Oddie & Hannah Groce

Albany

  • City Council – Nick Pilch

Berkeley

  • City Council District 1 – Rashi Kesarwani

  • City Council District 8 – Mark Humbert

  • Rent Board – Stefan Elgstrand

El Cerrito

  • City Council – Gabe Quinto 

Oakland

  • Mayor – Loren Taylor

  • District 4 – Lanenna “Nenna” Joiner 

  • District 6 – Kevin E. Jenkins

  • OUSD Board – Kyra Mungia 

Richmond

  • District 2 – Andrew Butt 

AC Transit Board

  • At-Large – Alfred Twu

Los Angeles County

  • Santa Monica City Council – Natalya Zenitskaya, Jesse Zwick, Caroline Torosis 

  • Culver City City Council – Alex Fisch

  • West Hollywood – Chelsea Byers

San Jose City

  • District 5 – Peter Ortiz

Santa Clara City

  • Mayor – Anthony Becker

Sunnyvale

  • City Council District 3 – Justin Wang

  • City Council District 5 – Richard Mehlinger

Cupertino

  • City Council (3 seats) – J.R Fruen and Sheila Mohan

Hayward

  • Hayward Area Recreation District Board of Directors – Sara Lamnin*

Livermore

  • School Board – Hayden Sidun

Mountain View

  • City Council (3 seats) – Ellen Kamei & Lucas Ramirez & Alison Hicks

Palo Alto

  • City Council (3 seats) – Julie Lythcott-Haims & Lisa Forssell & Vicki Veenker 

San Mateo

  • City Council – Sarah Fields

San Bruno

  • City Council – Auros Harman

Foster City

  • City Council – Evan Adams

Redwood City

  • City Council District 2 – Chris Sturken

South San Francisco

  • City Council District 5 – Eddie Flores

Housing Action Coalition

The Housing Action Coalition (HAC) is a member-supported nonprofit that advocates for building more homes at all levels of affordability to help alleviate the Bay Area and California’s housing shortage, displacement, and affordability crisis.

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