Accomplishments

Experience matters. Igor has spent the last 20 years getting real results for Berkeley. He's...

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1. Championed and secured funding for more than 1,000 affordable housing units throughout Berkeley.

2. Helped create and fund the Berkeley Way/Hope Center, Downtown Berkeley’s innovative affordable housing with wraparound services.

3. Secured safety lights for pedestrians and bicyclists at high-collision intersections.

4. Helped craft the nation’s first building electrification ordinance, now replicated by hundreds of jurisdictions across the nation

5. Worked with Mutual Aid to personally deliver groceries and meals to seniors during the pandemic.

6. Helped write, campaign for, and provide oversight to nearly all of Berkeley’s housing ballot measures, securing hundreds of millions of dollars for affordable housing of every type and ensuring that the funding is allocated by the City Council as specified.

7. Worked with the Berkeley community and City Council to improve public safety and pass the Reimagining Public Safety package that includes a new Police Accountability Board with strong oversight powers. This improves trust between law enforcement and our community.

8. Secured changes to Berkeley’s Seismic Safety Ordinance to ensure that thousands of Berkeley renters now reside in seismically safe housing.

9. Achieved improved lighting in Berkeley’s downtown and around campus, deterring crime.

10. Advocated for by-right approvals of longer business hours at downtown businesses, helping businesses succeed while ensuring more eyes on the street to prevent crime.

11. Helped preserve numerous Berkeley small businesses by approving the necessary permits they needed to remain in business and working with the City of Berkeley to ensure that they had the resources to thrive.

12. Helped secure stronger labor standards through increases to Berkeley's minimum wage, the Hard Hats Ordinance, the Sweatshop-Free Procurement Ordinance, Fair Workweek, and many others.

13. Working to save Alta Bates Hospital and ensure that the birthplace of Berkeley remains right here where it belongs.

14. As an immigrant, stood up to Trump’s hate and strengthened Berkeley’s Sanctuary City ordinance. Also traveled to Washington, D.C. and risked arrest to call on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

15. Worked to take corporate money out of Berkeley through passage of the public financing program and other ordinances.

16. Helped craft and pass one of the strongest local Just and Equitable Transition programs, a cornerstone of the Green New Deal that ensures workers in existing polluting industries are able to retain the promise of strong and stable middle class careers while helping Berkeley reduce its carbon emissions.