City Council Candidate Questionnaire '26

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As low as voluntarily and legally possible under the state level. I said 5% in 2024. I am inclined toward that given it's [sic] reasonableness to the state level.

Yes but I am hesitant with public aggregated data and increased city costs. I am already building one myself and it is not an easy task. If this can be done without much cost and without legal hurdles, I am in favor in order to benefit both tenants and housing providers with a centralized city database covering everything from pricing, property data, and better access for renters to get approved for applications and demonstrate credit-worthiness. We should also have a proper historical measure of rent increases and in what concentrations and correlations they end up in for Burbank properties. I have communicated my hesitations and optimistic about a rent registry to both tenant advocates and housing provider interests.

Yes and I have mentioned this to both tenant advocates and housing providers interests.

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocate, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC.

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC. By me compromising on local vs. state rent control I am increasing and maximizing all secondary and remedial measures for renters, tenants, and housing providers obtaining their rental payments.

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC. By me compromising on local vs. state rent control I am increasing and maximizing all secondary and remedial measures for renters, tenants, and housing providers obtaining their rental payments.

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC. By me compromising on local vs. state rent control I am increasing and maximizing all secondary and remedial measures for renters, tenants, and housing providers obtaining their rental payments.

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC. By me compromising on local vs. state rent control I am increasing and maximizing all secondary and remedial measures for renters, tenants, and housing providers obtaining their rental payments.

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC.

I think the current rules under AB 1482 and the Burbank TPO are sufficient

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC.

Yes and I said this to both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC.

Ban, especially since we can't tax it. I am opposed to higher taxes, but I am more opposed to those who don't get taxed at all. With such a low tax climate in Burbank, a fair taxation scheme should apply to properly regulated businesses.

I have expressed my concerns, many of which are my observed shortcomings of the state law, as well as those communicated to me by my constituents and votes, many home owners, renters, businesses, and more. This law takes too much from our city. It is great that there are pathways opening up for development, public transit opportunities, and modernizing and connecting Burbank more throughout the region. But where is the money for Burbank? Where are Burbank exceptions carved out? Why is there is a one-size [sic] fits all answer for a very large state for a small city? So at this time it is a conditional opposition.

Yes absolutely, I have told both tenant advocates, housing provider interests, and BizFed PAC, that I am here to support our housing providers as much as our renters, with as much revenue generation, city marketing, city services, as we can provide you all. They always ask where will I get the money from. I am a businessman, a relationship maker, and someone who knows how to showcase our City's brand better than anyone. My 4 year term is going to make Burbank the most modern housing market in the region, maybe even the country. Every unit adapted and improved for the weather, climate, for all the transportation modalities, and for all lifestyles and ways of living for individuals, families, and households.

This requires a reimagining of our current social and credit score system. We need to revamp the applications renters use, as they all use the same crappy software. This means, better ways for showing income, or accommodating for different income sources. Different ways of showing credit, showing tenant history, reference history, employment history. Should someone who is stretching their paycheck, but is healthy, has no criminal record, has stable credit, and will most likely live in Burbank for 30, 40, 50 years, passing down a condominium or a home to their descendants or heirs, should that someone struggle to buy a home if they will indeed live in it, pay for it, pay it down in however many years? I think not. There is no need to struggle. The struggle is because our system is designed to stress people out week by week, month by month, then year by year, with how the financial system operates. Rarely does anyone ever get to just live and work in peace not having to worry about where they will live. To me, being able to just live and work, with the money going wherever it needs to go, should be enough. The same way home buyers take their equity from place to place when buying a new home, renters and tenants need to be given and have opportunities to build social equity. I have encourage [sic] both tenant advocates and housing provider interests to look into allowing tenants and non-profits purchasing opportunities for properties, and I hope we can all work together to make it happen.

A City job is a vested job, where, even if the income is not super high, it is very stable, secure, safe, with great benefits, and most important of all - our City staff and public servants are the best of the best. It is very hard to remove a vested city employee. It has to go through so many channels including the Civil Service Board. They have background checks done, drug tests done, their credit most of the time is good. They rarely have bad records. They work for many years, becoming dedicated members of our community. We need to work with banks and financing entities to give them tailored loans, and even encourage the City to co-sign and guarantee their rental leases and mortgages using its purchasing power and credit rating as a business/governmental entity. It's not like anyone is going to default or file for bankruptcy. The City doesn't even have to spend any money. They just have to have to [sic] cosign and then remove themselves after a few years if even.

I am a relationship maker at heart and I love to be a liaison. I would work with their board, their staff, their partners and vendors, their banking and finance entities, their tenants, everyone. Talking, texting, emailing, Zoom, invitations to one another's meetings, everything you can think of. We need to help them, and help each other, to help Burbank.

I am a tenant running for office in proposed District 2 on the hillside, with many disabled renters, low income renters, minority renters, and more in my district. I have experienced many housing issues in my rental in Burbank despite paying on time rent each month. To find a comparable place in Burbank is nigh impossible. To find a comparable place elsewhere is also, very challenging. It might not be the best place, but God has provided me this home, so I accept it and love it as I would any home and shelter provided to me. But my landlord is not God and I don't owe them anything. Sorry. They're the ones woh [sic] need to give me a proper place to live. Better than it is currently. Just like all my neighbors and constituents deserve - they all deserve better and I am not ashamed to say any of this. This has affected me in so many ways, including disrupting my precious six figure job through no fault of my own. Disrupting my canvassing and campaigning efforts and so much more. Should my landlord be liable if my employer takes action against me? Should we allow a landlord to sabotage a campaign and the chances of voters to put forward their policies on council? Absolutely not. But who is going to stand up for me and those like me? Will the employer? Will the City? Will the legal system? Will the interest groups? I don't intend on being pushed out of my home, because I am here to fight for Burbank, for my neighbors, for my community, and I will suffer any situation for them, because there is nothing more rewarding for me than to see them all thrive. So all of this is related, it is all systemic, and I hope the district measure passes should it benefit my district and constituents, especially to have me win the council seat and give my voters as much attention as they need and want thereafter. We need to draw a line to how many no-fault evictions and how many unsustainable rent increases we tolerate in this city. At this time financially as difficult as a situation is, money is just money, and financially can be tolerated. But some things money can't buy, and our peace, quiet, and dignity as human beings are some of those things.

Yes, and I have expressed this and my concerns to many, including local media, about how the Homeless Solutions Center needed to be executed instead of scrapped.

As many local resources as possible, but these are, ultimately, stopgap and temporary solutions. Burbank unfortunately is not equipped for long-term homeless management. The best action is to provide them finances and credit management and some independence and treatment options to depart Burbank to more affordable, safer, manageable communities. Many countries accept US Citizens and other country visa/passport holders without a visa or a very easy visa, sometimes for months to a year even and renewable. These countries have very good cities, with cost of living a fraction of what it costs in Burbank and elsewhere in America. We do not need to allow homeless and vulnerable people to suffer on the streets or on the properties of others or the city, without getting them any help, and to have them suffer in one of the most inhospitable countries for poverty and social credit score system barriers. These other countries can provide these individuals with plenty of fresh food, groceries, restaurants, utilities and internet, modern housing even, without any intensive documentation or verification checks, except for having the money and being of decent moral character. This overall solution is really for those who are already too deep in poverty and homelessness as well as needs for treatment, and who can benefit from it as well.

Introducing as much modernized technology, and talented experts in planning and permitting and other fields.

I am all for reimagining our zoning laws. Urban mixed development. Industrial expansion near the Airport and transit corridors/infrastructure. Preservation and protection ordinances for the hillside and many single family neighborhoods. I am not a single issue candidate. I support a diverse mix of neighborhoods and communities and people.

Yes, we need to do thorough research into the entire housing stock, all the parcels, all the subdivisions, all the buildings, floors, units, everything. We need to enhance every tenants and purchasers financial profile, credit profile, bring in as many investors and financiers as possible to speed up and jump-start development, and work as a Council with our boards to ease up on regulations, ease up on barriers to building, bring in all the raw materials and resources, discounts, fundraising, everything you can think of. Make Burbank a center for manufacturing, processing, everything end to end.

I will accept up to $500 in money or non-monetary contributions from anyone and any entity I am legally allowed to take contributions from. I also accept volunteer support that does not hit or count toward the $500 contribution limit, from anyone and any entity. I will meet with everyone, and I will support everyone as much as possible in many different ways. I can show up, even if I don't talk. I can talk if that's what people want. I can work. I can lobby. I can mediate.

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Yes, I pay rent for the home I live in

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Thank you for the chance to share my views. It was great to be out there in 2024 to serve you all and our wonderful community. It's an even greater privilege to be out here in 2026 again to fight for our city which so many call home. I will never stop fighting. I may adjust my positions and rationale sometimes. I may compromise. But that's what makes me the best candidate among all the others. I truly, never give up. And I have already squared off with so many, I have taken heat from so many, I have had my positions and my heart in them, challenged and scrutinized, by people and entities richer than me, more influential than me, more powerful than me, and many who had agreements and disagreements with me on many areas. Yet, I did not falter. I remained true to my words, true to my commitment to protecting renters from the worst of what the market pushes them to endure. Because I am the right person for the job, who will do all that, for my voters and community. I fight for my principles, no matter what.