As your Supervisor, I will work with all levels governments, businesses, labors, developers, financial industries, researching institutes, health care professionals, law enforcements, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and publics in general to start addressing some Critically important issues in our community:

Housing

Develop a long term housing plan and provide short term solutions to address the housing shortage issue by

• Increase housing production
• Effective Government regulations
• Private and Business sectors
• Community based organizations
• Financial Institutions
• Skilled labors force
• Regional transportation
• Inventory of governments own lands
• Teachers, public safety personnel housing
• Equitable distribution of housing for working families, seniors and people with disability
• First time home buyers assistance
• Preserve the existing rental units to avoid displacement of renters and small businesses
• Prevent sudden homelessness
• Inventory of vacant units
• Short-term rent assistance
• Rapid rehousing to stop people from becoming chronically homeless
• Set priorities on homeless families with school age children, veterans, seniors, disabled, and chronically homeless members in our community
• Provide health and mental health, job training and human resources assistances

Physical Health, Mental Health and, Human Services

• Establish a Dental Board to improve dental services in Santa Clara.
• Increase funding for mental health services and drug dependency
• Implement School-based mental health services
• Improve the foster care system
• Enforce Laura’s Law allowing for court-ordered assisted- outpatient-treatment for mental health consumers who were previously incarcerated
• Increase Child Care slots and improve quality of child care
• Eliminate hazardous odor from industrial sources and waste treatment processes

Transportation

• Implement the recommendations of the recent Santa Clara County Grand Jury Report on the Valley Transportation Authority, starting out with improving its governance structure. I support a smaller Board with full time elected positions.
• Bring above ground connection of the long promised Light Rail train to Eastridge Transit Center from Alum Rock
• Improve local transportation services especially for seniors and students

Public Safety