Lower the cost of living, build more housing, and make government deliver for working families.

Scott has seen too many people who grew up in the Bay Area no longer feel sure they can stay here. He has watched friends leave because rent is too high, young families delay having children because they cannot afford childcare and housing at the same time, and working people fall behind even when they are doing everything right. He has also seen what happens when government moves too slowly while people are living without shelter. For Scott, affordability is a fundamental and urgent crisis.

Scott’s record

• Helped streamline local rules to make it easier to build multifamily and affordable housing.

• Helped secure federal and state funding for housing and homelessness services and pushed forward 100% affordable developments.

• Helped convene a homelessness task force, pushed Union City’s housing plan forward early, and treated the housing and homelessness crisis as an emergency rather than something government could postpone.

• Supported financial assistance for renters and stronger fair labor and local hiring standards.

• Helped support small businesses facing pandemic-era hardship and worked to make it easier to open and attract new businesses.

What Scott will fight for in the State Senate

• Build far more housing at every level, especially infill and transit-oriented housing near jobs, schools, and transportation hubs.

• Speed up approvals for projects that meet objective standards, expand adaptive reuse of underused sites, and support thoughtful reform that stops delay and dysfunction from driving up costs.

• Pursue a larger public-sector role in housing production, including social-housing-style financing and government-backed construction tools that can create mixed-income, below-market housing at scale.

• Lower everyday costs by holding utilities and insurers accountable and by fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare, childcare, energy, and housing.

• Expand homelessness prevention, interim shelter, permanent supportive housing, and behavioral health responses that actually move people off the street and into stability.

• Protect renters from unfair evictions, abusive practices, and price-fixing tools that exploit scarcity in the housing market.

• Fight for family-supporting wages, stronger organizing rights, and an economy where growth actually reaches working families.

Scott’s approach to affordability is direct: build more homes, treat housing and homelessness with the urgency they require, lower basic costs, strengthen wages and worker power, and ensure that we’re not making the problem worse through delay, waste, and inaction.