Ahead of the election on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the Asian Law Caucus is sharing our perspective on several San Francisco and California ballot propositions. As we work together for economic and racial justice, our ballot positions are aimed at helping communities throughout the state make informed decisions.
Key election dates:
- California voters can register online at registertovote.ca.gov through October 21, 2024.
- Early voting in San Francisco begins on October 7, 2024 at the City Hall Voting Center at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place. Find your polling place to vote in-person on November 5, 2024.
- All California voters who are registered by October 21 will receive their November ballot in the mail. Your ballot must be postmarked by November 5, 2024 to be counted.
Find additional information on how to register and cast your ballot in California, including fact sheets in 14 different languages.
California Ballot Propositions
YES on Prop 6: As a member of the statewide Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth, we support Proposition 6 to amend the California Constitution to abolish slavery. Prop 6 is an important step towards ending and repairing the harms of chattel slavery and ensuring those harms are never repeated.
YES on Prop 33: Prop 33 allows cities and counties to expand rent control, helping more tenants afford to stay in their communities. Every day, ALC provides low-income immigrant tenants with in-language and culturally sensitive legal services to fight eviction and displacement. Our clients experience directly the impacts of the current state ban on rent control, including harassment and pressure from corporate landlords to move from their long-time homes in favor of residents who can pay thousands of dollars more per month. Prop 33 gives cities the tools they need to create more rent-stabilized housing and help more working families keep a roof over their heads.
NO on Prop 36: Whether we live in San Francisco, Fresno, or Siskiyou, we should all be able to walk down the streets at night, go to work, and relax with our families without fear for our safety. At a time when many of our neighbors and community members are struggling to make ends meet and pull through crises, Prop 36 takes away essential funding for safety solutions like mental health and drug treatment, homelessness prevention, housing, and victims’ services. We oppose Prop 36 because it would cut important programs that prevent violence and support victims and would instead cost our communities billions of dollars in new prison spending. To make us all safer, we need to get serious about fully funding the solutions that address the root causes of crime, create peaceful neighborhoods, and improve everyone’s quality of life.
San Francisco Ballot Propositions
NO on Prop F: Prop F is wasteful and ineffective. San Francisco tried this extremely expensive program before and abandoned it 13 years ago because it did not retain or recruit any more police. Under Prop F, San Franciscans would have to pay some individual officers up to half a million dollars through both their regular paycheck and a monthly pension. At the same time, our city would not add a single officer to SFPD ranks – even as other city services like 911 dispatch, firefighting, and social services face deepening staffing shortages. The measure would only serve to take us backward with an expensive idea that has been tried and failed.
YES on Prop G: In the face of rising inequality in our city, we support Prop G, which fills a critical gap in our affordable housing system without increasing taxes. Too often, San Francisco seniors and families with extremely low incomes are trapped in an impossible situation, having to choose between living in cramped, unsafe housing or leaving the city they call home. Prop G is a creative solution that commits existing funding to meet our clients’ needs and help more immigrant tenants, seniors, and local families stay in their homes.