Living up to our progressive values means ensuring everyone who calls California home has a safe place to live.

Just days after Buffy was sworn in as Assemblymember, she toured homeless encampments, shelters, and service providers to hear directly from people impacted by the crisis. She carries these stories in her work every day. 

The cost of living in California is too high. Fixing it means tackling it from all angles.

During Buffy's first year in the Assembly, she authored AB 1485, creating affordable housing for middle-class Californians, ensuring they are no longer left out of the housing discussion. This bill now allows more Californians - including our teachers, firefighters, and nurses - to live in the communities they serve. 

Buffy also co-authored AB 1482, the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, the nation’s most progressive tenant protection bill. For far too long, California tenants lacked essential protections that forced people out of their homes into homelessness. Passing this historic legislation ensured housing security for millions of Californians across the state. 

When COVID-19 hit in March of 2020, Buffy immediately recognized the danger of the pandemic and its effects on working families. To combat those risks, she passed AB 2463, protecting thousands of homeowners from foreclosure by ensuring that lenders could not force someone out of their home because of unrelated debt. 

As Assembly woman and mother, Buffy fought to increase the supply of affordable housing by allowing multi-family homes to be built in densely populated metropolitan areas via AB 725.

In a landmark partnership with the faith community, Buffy passed AB 1851 to allow new affordable housing to be built on the  parking lots of faith-based institutions. Empowering our religious partners to be part of the solution to the housing crisis is exactly the kind of creative solution Buffy prioritizes.

There remains no silver bullet for California’s housing crisis — solving it means thinking outside the box, being bold, and being relentless. That has been Buffy's commitment since day one, and it’s she shows up each day to fight for her community.