Katie Porter

You can actually solve labor by not going backwards on housing in labor policy, which the other candidates both have.

I think we ought to be trying to drive down the cost of construction.

But the land is a tricky piece.

The state should contribute land for affordable housing.

So I have said that I do not think today or now is the time to do prevailing wage and residential.

And when we were in front of the labor fed, I was the only candidate.

I don't believe you were in front of the labor fed, so I just want to make it clear.

But those of us who were in front of the labor fed, I was the only one who said, I'm not doing skilled and trained in full today for residential housing because it's going to drive up the cost.

And I took the heat from labor.

I stood up to labor.

And Lorena Gonzalez got, you know, it was right there.

And I am not scared of anybody because I've got three teenagers that I do not want living on my couch.

And you all seem very lovely, but I don't want you living on my couch or a street corner or in someone's attic.

I want you to all have housing where you can flourish.

And so you cannot, there is a pathway here.

to keep building that workforce.

There is a big need, a huge need to enforce labor violations and abusive labor practices, which unions have often been very helpful at doing.

You could also do that through actually having government oversight of wage violations and workforce violations, and that would be my approach.

Yeah, so I've actually asked to meet with the California Forever people because the first thing is you got to listen, you got to find out, you got to dig in the details, you got to read the study, you got to ask the hard questions, right?

And I think they might be scared I'm bringing a whiteboard.