We need rent control and we need to build more affordable housing.

I support Prop 10, which would repeal Costa-Hawkins and allow cities to have more effective rent control laws. People are struggling to pay the rent and they need relief.

And ultimately we need to build more publicly owned "social housing." In countries like Austria, Sweden, and Finland they have decent publicly owned housing for low and middle income people. And we should focus on high density mixed use zoning near mass transit hubs.

We can explore conflict resolution classes in our schools. We should make sure that our schools are fully funded with small classroom sizes. We should make sure that our children have extracurricular opportunities to interact with their fellow students. And we should wipe out economic insecurity in California by encouraging a mass wave of union organizing and creating a public jobs guarantee.

We need to ban fracking and rapidly transition to clean energy. California is the third highest oil producing state in the country. For the sake of our future survival on the planet we need to do more.

We need to reevalauate our water usage in the state. Certain corporate agricultural interests are consuming too much water and depleting our aquifers. We need to speed up implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

We need full funding for our schools, including programs for music, arts, and technical education. We should look for progressive forms of taxation on the wealthy to fund this. And we need to modify Prop 13 so that corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

We should also make all public colleges and universities tuition free. California is the fifth largest economy in the state. We have the resources to accomplish this.

Tax the wealthy with progressive forms of taxation.