Power Mapping with data

Power mapping examples:

• NYT article of Trump & Enablers

• • Shows who is connected to Trump
  • Many folks you've heard of, but interestingly, shows folks you've not heard of
  • Who is behind those folks? Power mapping helps reveal this and shows who is influencing.

• SF Chronicle map of everyone who owns every property in California
  • Bruce provides overview of RHNA goals and inclusionary laws
  • SF's goal: 80k new units, 47k affordable
  • New laws are making things harder
  • Power mapping analysis helps understand who is behind these laws
  • Data for "who owns everything" came from property records via Regrid
  • Tool shows who owns what. Reveals owner of High School as Falon Gong
  • Data can show who the largest owners in SF are
  • That can show who has influence
  • SF Sunshine ordinance = enhancement of CA public records act + Brown Act
    • Under state law you can only ask an agency. In sunshine you can ask individual.
    • In SF, no extension for requested body -- 10d
    • More access - to the person who has it
    • If they don't have it, they must assist you

• SF Gate - Mysterious land buyers outed
  • Company was known as "Flannery Associates"
  • Shell companies on top of shell companies
  • Power map helps drill down on who is the owner
    • Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreeson, Laurene Powell Jobs,
  • "California Clean Money" is helping to open that up around campaign financing
    • LLCs must show who their members are
    • Assessors - huge important part of government
  • How can activitsts figure out the system to make sure their goals are going to fit in with these projects. Might not be able to stop them, but how can we affect them?

• Midwest academy / olinksy school of organizing. Primary, secondary, tertiary decision makers. IF you can't get to primary, go to secndary/tertiatry who may have influence over primary decision maker. Power map helps you figure out who those folks are.

• "Westside Observer" - Follow the $$$
  • Neighbors for better SF, Together SF Action, Grow SF
  • These influential organizations are attracting politicians, and drowning out activist voices

• SF Standard - SF Tech Families plot to spend millions
  • Weiner, who Bruce thinks is killing affordable housing

• SF Standard - Y Combinator Garry Tan organizing SF's moderate political agenda

• Bruce whows Streamlining Legisliation Power Map
  • Housing Element - Bruce's opinions on what's going on:
    • Streamlining policies reduce time to get building and construction permits, reduces time for public to have a say in them
    • CA Env quality act is wiped out

• Data management
  • Public records are raw data
  • People in our Community knows who is connected to who
  • Prompt: how to activate community to collect data
    • Showing up - at bus stops / grocery stores
    • Doing research, starting with your existing community