The future of public infrastructure is on the ballot this November!
Join the Bay Area’s leading affordable housing advocacy organizations in September for a two-part webinar series about three critical ballot measures that will impact everyday lives and long-term quality of life of folks in the Bay Area and across the State. We’ll cover the ins and outs, the whys, and the what-ifs of the Bay Area’s regional transit initiative, Proposition 1 (Statewide Affordable Housing Bond), and Proposition 43 (Taxpayer Deception Initiative).
Dates: Wednesdays, September 16 and 30
Time: 12:00 – 1:15 PM
Where: Virtual via Zoom (Recordings and materials will be posted online following each webinar)
This series is co-presented by East Bay Housing Organizations, All Home, SF Council of Community Housing Organizations, Call Marin Home, Housing Santa Cruz County, Generation Housing, Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County, Transform, and SV@Home.
The Bay Area is working to pass the game-changing Connect Bay Area ballot measure to protect, reimagine, and reinvest in a transit system that serves today’s riders and inspires the next generation. Join housing leaders from across the region on September 16 to hear how to support the regional transit funding measure and why saving transit matters so much to the affordable housing community.
If passed, the measure will provide roughly $1 billion a year in new funding (via a 1% sales tax in San Francisco and 0.5% sales tax in all other counties) to support transit services including BART, Caltrain, ferries, AC Transit, VTA, and others, and prevent major service cuts and station closures.
California voters have an unprecedented opportunity this November to invest billions into building and preserving affordable housing, solving, fighting and ending homelessness, and expanding homeownership for the next generation. The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026 (Proposition 1) places a $11.25 billion bond on this year’s ballot — allowing voters tosupport affordable housing for lower-income households.
Other measures could negatively impact housing. Proposition 43 would rewrite the rules of our democracy. Today, when communities votes to fund something local — affordable housing, a neighborhood school, a road repair, or local fire departments — the majority decides. Prop 43 changes that. It lets just over one-third of voters block what nearly two-thirds want. Under Prop 43, a NO vote counts twice as much as a YES. The winners are the corporate special interests who’d rather not pay their fair share. Learn more about Prop 43 and endorse a NO vote.
On September 30, advocates from leading affordable housing organizations across the Bay Area will present the facts about Prop 1 and Prop 43, answer any questions you have about these ballot measures or others, and invite YOU to get involved to encourage California and Bay Area voters to say YES to funding the future of affordable housing.
