Is Housing Healthcare?

The Impact of Housing Instability & Housing Quality on Our Health

•  Wednesday, July 18, 2024 12:00 to 1:15 pm

• Via Zoom, Register Here

The series event will spotlight the increased health risks of unstable and poor-quality living conditions on our health outcomes. County of Santa Clara Supervisor, Cindy Chavez; Melissa Jones, Executive Director of BARHI; and Alison Cingolani, Policy Manager SV@Home will share their expertise on housing as a health related social need.

Juneteenth marks when the last enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This year, the LWVC advocacy team’s work on ACA 8 (Lori Wilson, D11) is one example of our commitment to end slavery in all forms.

 It is a long overdue amendment to the California Constitution to prohibit ‘involuntary servitude’, a term for a person laboring against that person’s will to benefit another when being used as a punishment for a crime. The measure would prohibit the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from disciplining any incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment. The bill is currently enrolled and filed by the Secretary of State to go to the governor.

Motor Voter’s Future Success

The New Motor Voter Program has successfully registered nearly 26 million Californians through the Department of Motor Vehicles since its launch in 2018. Each year, the Secretary of State is required to work with the DMV and the Motor Voter Task Force to review the California New Motor Voter Program. The 2023 Annual Report is now available. Of the key findings in 2023-24, 4,931,101 people registered to vote. Of these, 89.8% were registered through the California New Voter Program – increase of 10% from 2022-23.

 To further this success, AB 2127 (Marc Berman, D23) is an LWVC co-sponsored bill with ACLU to extend the operation of the task force for five years to January 2030. AB 2127 would extend the tenure of the California New Motor Voter taskforce in order to ensure effective implementation and evaluation of the New Motor Voter program as it is updated and refined. So far the bill has passed the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments, and the Senate Transportation Committee. It will next be heard in Senate Appropriations.  

Observer Reports from LWV LAMV

Read our latest Observer Report from Los Altos School District where

 the three June board meetings were primarily about finances:

• cautionary report from the Citizens' Advisory Committee of Finance.
• presentation of the 2024-25 District budget.
• presentation of the Facilities Master Plan.
• prioritization of campus modernization projects.