November 2016 Endorsements
Over the last several weeks, CPA leaders have been talking to monolingual Chinese-speaking voters in San Francisco about key ballot measures that will improve the lives of low-wage workers and working families in San Francisco and statewide.
You can download our CPA slate card here: English and Chinese.
Additionally, with AAPIs for Civic Empowerment, we helped pull together a multilingual voter guide that’s available in number of Asian languages including Chinese, Korean, Lao, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese. The voter guide is also available online! Check it out now!
This fall, CPA members recommend the following positions to San Francisco voters:
San Francisco Propositions
| Position | Proposition |
| Yes | Prop B: San Francisco Community College District Parcel Tax Election |
| Yes | Prop W: Increase Transfer Tax on Properties of At Least $5,000,000 Prop W, the Ultra Luxury Property Tax could help shift San Francisco’s growing wealth gap by increasing the transfer tax for both commercial and residential property sales valued at $5 million or more by 0.25 percent. It is estimated to raise $44 million a year to make City College tuition free and fund other city services. |
| Yes | Prop C: Loans to Finance Acquisition and Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing |
| Yes | Prop D: Filling Vacancies in Local Elective Office |
| Yes | Prop F: Sixteen and Seventeen-Year-Old Voting for Municipal Elections |
| Yes | Prop H: Public Advocate |
| Yes | Prop M: Housing and Development Commission Public input and oversight over economic development and housing policy of the City. |
| Yes | Prop N: Non-Citizen Voting in School Board Elections |
| No | Prop O: Office Development in Candlestick Point and Hunters Point |
| No | Prop P: Competitive Bidding for Affordable Housing Projects on City-Owned Projects |
| No | Prop Q: Promotion of Safe and Open Sidewalks |
| Yes | Prop S: Allocation of Hotel Tax Funds |
| No | Prop U: Affordable Housing Requirements for Market-Rate Development Projects Eliminates affordable inclusionary housing for low-income families by doubling income level requirements |
Statewide Propositions
| Position | Proposition |
| Yes | Prop. 55: The Children’s Education And Health Care Protection Act Prop 55 will maintain tax on CA’s Wealthiest 2% to fund schools and services and protect $4 billion of critical funding. |
| Yes | Prop 56: Cigarette Tax to Fund Healthcare, Tobacco Use Prevention, Research, and Law Enforcement $2 per pack increase on cigarettes in California, including e-cigarettes to fund health programs and research. |
| Yes | Prop 57: Public Safety & Rehabilitation Act of 2016 Reduce prison spending by offering non-violent prisoners the opportunity to reduce their sentences and work toward rehabilitation. |