Candidate Statements

David Bonaccorsi

I am privileged to have been elected to the FFE Leadership team.  I am a lifelong Fremont resident, a former Fremont Councilmember and Planning Commission with 12 years of combined experience, promoting affordable housing and alleviating the challenges faced by persons experiencing homelessness. I’m also a past board member and board Vice-President Abode Services (which is also dedicated to ending homelessness).  I helped organize grass roots support for the Fremont Housing Navigation Center (HNC) - as the Friends of the HNC - over stiff and increasing increasingly vocal opposition, including representing our organization on KPFA radio over one of the opponent leaders.

In the last three years on the FFE Leadership Team, I have worked with my talented colleagues increasing FFE’s community engagement, including: moderating candidate debates, promoting Fremont’s Safe Parking initiative, organizing housing workshops with Abode and CatalyzeSV, and participating in bi-monthly FFE Leadership meetings. More recently, in also serving on FFE’s Policy Committee, I helped draft and edit FFE’s written public comment to the City of Fremont on Fremont’s updated 2023-2031 housing element, pressing for more affordable housing.    

I respectfully ask for your vote so I may continue in my service on the FFE Leadership team advocating for affordable and inclusionary housing as a matter of right.

Kate Amon

My goals are two fold - actions and advocacy for:

1) More housing, especially affordable housing, and

2) Accountability for the corporate landlords profiting from deals entrusting them to operate affordable housing, and punishments for when that trust is broken.

Lisa Danz

I joined Fremont for Everyone in 2019 when I was moved to speak in favor of the Housing Navigation Center and found this wonderful community of HNC supporters. A few years later in 2021, I joined the leadership team. My leadership contributions have included coordinating our state-level bill endorsements, taking notes at meetings, monitoring City Council agendas for relevant topics, updating our website, and generally ensuring the ball doesn't get dropped on critical tasks.

My vision for the future of our leadership team is to grow our capacity and long-term resilience by spreading more of these tasks among others on the leadership team. In order to support this goal, fellow FFE Lead Katherine and I have put together a document (https://docs.google.com/document/d/18i4Gma-qjiydwwsnAZF714oqNC_YnwMu1aXqaZKjPoI/edit?usp=sharing) that proposes different leadership team roles and responsibilities. If I'm reelected, I hope that the other leads will join me in each signing up for a role.

My housing policy positions generally align with CAYIMBY's. I find their analysis of the housing research to be very compelling. I believe in advocating for more funding for subsidized affordable housing AND making market-rate housing more abundant and less expensive (for example, by raising or removing density maximums) so that it will be naturally affordable to more people.

I'm running for reelection because I believe that Fremont for Everyone is valuable to our community. I want to see FFE succeed, and I'm willing to keep contributing.

Jenna Daugherty

Hello everyone!!!! My name is Jenna. I’m a lifelong resident of Fremont who was brought into Fremont For Everyone back in 2019 during the HNC townhalls and now 5 years later I am running to be re-elected to my third term for Fremont For Everyone leadership. I sat back and observed for the first couple months of my first year to learn the ropes and quickly jumped in as Communications Director, I figured with my background in theater, choir, and broadcasting I could bring my people skills as well as my communication skills to the role as my way to contribute in a positive manner to the organization. Now with two years under my belt I feel a lot more experienced and can take my role as Communications Director to the next level, hopefully with your vote I can have the opportunity to do bigger and better things for Fremont For Everyone and in turn the City of Fremont!

Annie Koruga

Katherine Rubie

It's truly amazing to me how quickly the last 3 years have passed! I have proudly served as an FFE leader for the last 3 years. During that time, we have accomplished a great many things, which includes support for the HNC, the Safe Parking Program, support for Project Homekey, work on the City's Housing Element, support for state bills that are important to FFE's mission, and countless other things. We have indeed been busy, and over this time, with all our work, we have become more well known to our electeds as well as to developers (who've sought our support), and other organizations. This has led us to collaborate with two other organizations, and this has stretched our understanding of so many things we never knew before. And I have been there this entire time, lending my voice, skills, and time to all of this!

As we've gained more recognition and power as an organization I have realized a need to strengthen our leadership team, modify our bylaws, expand our membership and their involvement, as well as continue moving forward as an organization.

Because FFE It is a relatively new organization, I see that we still have a lot of ideas and we're open to trying new things and we've not gotten stuck in a rut, like so many other organizations have. It feels promising to be in such a position of influence, and that we hopefully we can end homelessness in our great City of Fremont.

Ending homelessness is my passion and I feel strongly that it is my purpose in life, after having experienced homelessness myself. I have seen the many failures in how our system works, understand where and what those failures are, and have many ideas on how to fix them. I've also got many ideas on how to get the homeless housed in a variety of ways - appropriate for their individual needs, as well as how to fund them without having to raise taxes.

I hope to be elected to a 4th term in order to continue growing our organization and affecting change in our community. I've learned a tremendous amount of things over the last 3 years, and I feel I am more on fire than ever before! I have a better understanding of how things work, why they don't, who needs to be talked to, who is resistant and so many other things. This last year has been especially challenging, because I believe that we have come up up against a city council membership, who is largely either apathetic or resistant to assisting homelessness. However, with this coming election year, things are looking very promising for a leadership team on City Council who may be much more willing to push the kinds of agendas forward which will not only help our unhoused Fremont residents become housed, but also help the entirety of our city by removing this particular challenge, which Is absolutely criminal in my opinion. Why criminal? Because the condition of being homeless is unnecessary, creates so much suffering and division amongst citizens, and It's completely solvable - and it should have been resolved decades ago! I believe that to move this issue forward and resolve it quicker requires education of our leadership - ALL leadership - and the community at large.

I'm looking forward to a really productive year!