Nathan Deer

Housing Particularly prescient in San Francisco, we need to ban or extraordinarily tax the process of "flipping" houses. In an already extraordinarily expensive city, we see a dearth of starter homes available, because home values here are based on investment potential and not intrinsic value. Homes where a family could move in, renovate over time, and make it their own, are instead snatched up at absurd valuations, renovated, and relisted for even higher prices. The short timelines place additional strain on already limited construction resources, driving construction and trade costs even higher. Housing Further, we need to address the declining availability of rent controlled housing. One way to do this is to redefine the clock on rent control as rather than being tied to a fixed date, to rather be contingent on a fixed amount of time from the initial occupancy (ie after 15 years, the property is rent controlled). Infrastructure / Transportation What biking infrastructure we have, and it is truly insufficient, fails to effectively protect cyclists, and is poorly maintained. I would partner with organizations like the California Bicycle Coalition, to help our city redesign our roads to be safe for cyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles. Taxes / Budget There is no reason billionaires should exist, and every cent of wealth that they hoard is value created by employees who were not rewarded for their labor. Healthcare Healthcare is a human right, and nobody should have to ration their care. Medicare for All (M4A) would reduce costs and expand access. Both individuals and employers are already effectively paying for this in the form of premiums. Legislation Articles of impeachment should be drawn up for every single member of the administration, followed by criminal prosecution for the never before seen levels of corruption currently on display. Wages / Job Benefits Worker productivity has risen, inflation has risen, the minimum wage has not. Minimum wage should be reclassified as a living wage, with no sub-minimum wages. Federal minimum wage needs to be 26 now, and codified to always increase with inflation and productivity. Infrastructure / Transportation I would work not only to restore federal matching dollars for our transit infrastructure projects, I would advocate to reallocate highway funding to transit programs. Civil Rights We must focus on expanding voter access including: same day registration, No-Excuse Absentee Voting, automatic voter registration, and voting holidays. Immigration If we truly want to address any sort of perceived immigration crisis, then the way to do so is by building a longer table: work to undo decades of US interference and economic destabilization. Taxes / Budget We need to restore and enhance scientific funding, and education. We need people who understand what AI is and what it isn't, how disease surveillance prevents or mitigates global pandemics, and how the human impact on our environment risks everyone. Immigration We are a country of immigrants and built by immigrants. Immigrants are the backbone of our economy, and essential to our growth. We should be welcoming more immigrants into the country, not fighting to keep them out. We should yearn to be the country proud to display the Mother of Exiles at her shores. Housing While we absolutely need to build much more housing, the crisis will not be solved by additional construction alone. We need to address the treatment of housing as an investment vehicle, as opposed to a right. While we need more housing construction, including public housing, we must also eliminate institutional ownership of housing. Taxes / Budget As we move towards an AI driven future, wealth created through AI needs to be additionally taxed to encompass not only environment harms generated through extreme resource demands, but also to account for the job losses that follow with automation. Environment / Energy We must rejoin the Paris Agreement, re-enact the Endangerment Finding, and drastically accelerate adoption of clean energy technologies, while simultaneously expanding mass transit. Environment / Energy We need to levy excise and carbon taxes, to account for health impacts, clean-up and mitigation efforts, as well as economic adaptation to a changing climate. Immigration Nobody is illegal on stolen land. Abolish ICE.