I will work for you in the State Assembly to address California’s core challenges: housing, homelessness, and climate change. As a scientist and neighborhood leader, I will tackle these issues with all my technical training, the urgency they demand, and a commitment to improving your life, your family’s life, and our community.
Increase school funding. Public education is the greatest public health intervention and socioeconomic mobility engine ever devised. We should invest in our futures. Public schools are a public good and it is the duty of all of us to ensure they function well.
End child homelessness, which will boost educational equity. According to the LA Times, at least 269,000 K-12 students in CA were experiencing homelessness in 2018-19, enough to fill Dodger Stadium five times—and likely an underestimate. This is not to mention the 20% of LA Community College students that are similarly situated.
Create integrated communities, which have access to transit, stable housing, and robust social services. The best way to break the correlation between the zip code someone was born in and their educational attainment is to ensure that there is no difference between the zip codes of marginalized people and non-marginalized people. Kids should arrive to school swiftly, without stress, well fed, and enriched in all other parts of their lives. Louis’s housing policies will help that happen.