Monthly Archives: May 2015

Make It Fair: How one Prop 13 Voter is Standing Up to Close Corporate Loopholes

When voters like Olivia Barbour went to the polls in 1978 to vote for Prop 13, there was no way for them to know the impact it would have on their community 30 years later. The 70 year old South LA resident is retired from the Air Force and moved to Los Angeles for the…

How the Unthinkable Is Possible: Mobilizing 1 Million Voters in 2016

While young people, immigrants, people of color and working class Californians make up the majority of California’s population, the electorate is still overwhelmingly white, older and affluent. This imbalance has led to decades of policies that have placed the needs of corporations and the wealthy before the needs of everyday people. Every election season, traditional…

New USC Report Exposes Deep Inequities in California’s Property Tax System

A new report by the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE), confirms deep inequities in the current commercial property tax system and the potential of significant revenue gains by closing Prop 13’s corporate tax loopholes and addressing its systemic flaws. Over the last two years, USC PERE analyzed commercial property tax records between…