State Assembymembers Launch Renters’ Caucus to Advocate for Tenant Rights

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Nearly 44% of Californians rent their homes, but the vast majority of state legislators don’t. In the state assembly, only three out of 80 members are solely renters: Matt Haney, D-San Francisco; Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles; and Alex Lee, D-San Jose. The lawmakers say the imbalance between assembly members who are renters and those who are homeowners leads to fewer laws that address tenant needs. We’ll talk to Haney, Lee and Bryan about a caucus they are launching in the state assembly to advocate for tenants’ rights amid California’s ongoing housing crisis. Guests: Matt Haney, member, California State Assembly - represents the eastern portion of San Francisco. Isaac Bryan, member, California State Assembly - he represents much of South Central Los Angeles. Alex Lee, member, California State Assembly - he represents Santa Clara, Milpitas, Fremont, Newark and a small portion of western San Jose. He is the youngest state Asian American, first openly bisexual, and first Gen Z legislator state legislator in California history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	If there's one single policy that's defined American life for the last 75 years, it's been the promotion of home ownership.
0:56.0	First is a way out of the Depression, then as an anti-communist tactic, and more.
1:00.0	Homeowners get preferential tax treatment, loans backed by the government, but what about the renters?
1:07.0	In the Bay Area's big cities, between 45 and 60-something percent of people rent, but only three out of 80 State Assembly members don't own a home.
1:15.6	Those three lawmakers are starting a renter's caucus in the State Assembly, and they'll join us this morning in the studio to talk about what they think can help tenants.
1:23.6	It's a show about renters, landlords, and the ongoing housing crisis.
1:26.6	That's all coming up next.
1:33.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. There are a lot of ways to think about how power is split up
1:40.3	and wielded in our state. North versus south, coastal versus inland, big cities versus less
1:46.1	dense places. You might think about people's political allegiances by age or class or race,
1:52.3	ethnicity, immigration status. And for a lot of these groupings, you'd find quite organized
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