All Home Supports: 

  • Proposition 1: An $11.25 billion general obligation bond for housing, including $7.2 billion for affordable multifamily rental housing, $1.1 billion for homeownership assistance, and additional funds for farmworker, student, and tribal housing, and veterans’ home loans. California has no large, ongoing funding source for affordable housing, so one-time bonds like this one are a critical resource.
  • Proposition 3: A constitutional amendment that would make permanent the higher income tax rates on California’s highest earners, which voters first approved in 2012 and which are set to expire in 2031. The tax raises $5 billion to $15 billion a year, most of it for K-12 schools and community colleges. Losing that revenue would shrink the General Fund that housing and homelessness programs draw from and put them in sharper competition with schools and health care in every budget cycle. 
  • Proposition 45: A citizen initiative that would amend the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to speed up review of projects it designates as “essential,” including housing, schools, transportation, and water and energy infrastructure. Agencies would face a 365-day deadline to complete environmental reviews, and courts would have to rule on related lawsuits within 270 days. AB 130, enacted in 2025, already exempts qualifying urban infill housing from CEQA. Prop 45 complements that legislation by creating an optional fast-track process for housing and other projects that remain subject to review. 
  • Regional Transit Measure: A 14-year sales tax to fund day-to-day operations for BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit, and other agencies. The tax would be half a cent in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties and one cent in San Francisco, raising roughly $980 million a year. Voters put it on the ballot by petition, so it needs only a simple majority to pass. Reliable transit is essential for households with extremely low incomes, and transit corridors are where much of the region’s affordable housing is located and planned.

All Home Opposes:

  • Proposition 39: A constitutional amendment that would require voters to show government-issued identification at the polls and to write the last four digits of a government ID number on mail ballot envelopes. It would also require election officials to verify the citizenship of every registered voter. Keeping an ID current takes fees, documents, and often a stable mailing address, which are real barriers for many people with extremely low incomes and especially for people experiencing homelessness. 
  • Proposition 41: A constitutional amendment that would bar the state from excluding new special tax revenue from its annual spending cap, known as the Gann limit. It would also require the State Auditor to review programs funded by new special taxes, including proposed initiatives once they collect a quarter of their required signatures. Once the state reaches the Gann limit, additional revenue must go to schools and taxpayer rebates, so new dedicated funding for housing and homelessness could become much harder to spend as intended. 
  • Proposition 42: A constitutional amendment that would ban new state taxes on personal property other than real estate, including financial assets, retirement accounts, business interests, and intellectual property, as well as most retroactive taxes. It would permanently remove a category of revenue from future state budgets, including revenue for housing and homelessness. It also directly conflicts with Proposition 40, a separate one-time tax on billionaires’ wealth on the same ballot: if both pass and Prop 42 gets more votes, Prop 40 would likely be invalid.
  • Proposition 43: A constitutional amendment that would raise the voter threshold needed to pass citizen-initiated local special taxes from a simple majority to two-thirds, starting January 1, 2027. Taxes placed on the ballot by local governments already need a two-thirds supermajority, so this would narrow the path that citizen initiatives have used since 2017. That path has been an important source of dedicated local funding, not only for housing and homelessness solutions, but for wildfire prevention, education, local roads and transit, and other essential infrastructure and services.