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Candidates › CA-11 race › 2025–2026
Connie Chan
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, CA-11
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Lost the general electionNov 3, 2026 · 113,776 votes (46.0%) · 2 of 2
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Housing affordability
- Small businesses & consumer protections
- Immigration reform
- Women's health and reproductive rights
- elections and voting rights
- Money
- $2.4M raised, $1.8M spent, $581.8K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 10% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 95% from California · largest committee giver D.R.I.V.E. - DEM, REP, IND VOTER ED (THE PAC OF THE INT'L BRHD OF TEAMSTERS), $10K
- Outside groups
- $878.9K supporting, $10.9K opposing Chan
- Backed by
- Nancy Pelosi · Adam Schiff · Barbara Boxer and 392 more. As the campaign lists them
- Polling
- 44% in the latest poll (USC Democracy and Fair Elections Lab). The polls
19 priorities from conniechansf.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
For working families in San Francisco and across America, the housing crisis is the reason parents make four hour roundtrips, workers sleep in vehicles and entire communities are priced out of the very cities they grew up in. There is not a single state in America where a minimum wage worker putting in 40 hours a week can afford a modest two-bedroom apartment. More than 770,000 people experienced homelessness in 2024, the highest number ever recorded, and many more face housing cost burdens. Corporate developers have shown they won’t solve the housing crisis, only federal investment in partnership with local communities will bring about the change we need.
Connie Will: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/affordable-community-plan at this heading)
- Ramp up federal investments by fully funding the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, increasing the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, and fully fund the Project Based Section 8 program to address unmet needs so we can safely house vulnerable families and prevent them from ending up on our streets.
- Secure new funding for middle-income workforce housing through an expanded social housing tax credit and bond and loan financing, where the rents can sustain the debt and maintain operating costs. These programs will fill the financing gap that is currently stopping creation of new housing across the nation.
- Create a new federal housing finance authority to support the development of mixed-income green social housing, and expand funding opportunities to include co-op housing.
- Expand federal housing programs to support housing preservation in order to stabilize existing communities and keep existing tenants housed.
- Keep private equity firms and Wall Street investment vehicles from buying up existing housing, ending a model that drives up rents, defers maintenance and displaces working families.
- Support land banking with direct federal support to cities or community land trusts, linked to infrastructure investments and local plans that allocate land to meet identified needs.
- Repeal the Faircloth Amendment to allow for the repair and expansion of federally-funded public housing, development of social housing, increased rental subsidies and expanded offerings to middle-income households prioritizing local workforce.
- Expand veteran benefits to include rental subsidies for veterans and their immediate family and caretakers to prevent homelessness among veterans.
- Establish federal regulatory risk-sharing standards to hold home insurance companies accountable for bringing down premiums and ensuring available coverage.
- Secure federal grants and low-interest / silent second loans for city or CDFI (community bank) programs for homeowners and small property owners to improve building accessibility / sustainability and to build ADUs and other new neighborhood scale housing, thus supporting aging in place, multigenerational housing and housing for caregivers, and wealth-building.
- Expand support for permanent supportive housing and increase funding for behavioral health, substance use treatment and supportive services connected to housing.
- Support low-income tenants with a rent-payment tax deduction similar to the mortgage interest deduction for homeowners, lower barriers for both tenants and landlords to access Section 8 vouchers, and take San Francisco’s model of just-cause protections, right to counsel and right to organize to the national level.
Legislation Connie will cosponsor: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/affordable-community-plan at this heading)
- Housing BOOM Act (S.3464): Increases housing supply through federal financing incentives like low-interest loans, grants, and expanded housing tax credits for sustainable mixed-use development.
- HOMES Act (H.R.9662 - 2024): Creates a new Housing Development Authority to work directly with state and local governments and non-profit housing organizations to create and sustain new permanently affordable homes.
- Homes for All Act (H.R. 7191 - 2022): Repeals the Faircloth Act so we can build new units of public housing while expanding the Housing Trust Fund
- American Homeownership Act (S.3904): Removes private equity and Wall Street firms from the residential housing market.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/affordable-community-plan
The Trump Administration is driving up costs for America’s small businesses and working consumers. Tariffs are disproportionately impacting family-owned shops while corporations with lobbying power secure exemptions. The Administration’s corrupt settling of antitrust cases and approvals of megamergers has left businesses and consumers even more exposed to predatory monopolists – driving prices higher, crushing opportunities for innovative businesses to compete and even undermining our media and information ecosystem. The gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the Trump Administration has left consumers defenseless against predatory lending, junk fees and financial fraud. Surveillance pricing and price discrimination threatens to turn personal data into a tool for price gouging, charging customers, who can afford the least, the highest prices. The result is an economy that only works for the monopolists, not working families.
Connie will: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/affordable-community-plan at this heading)
- Oppose Trump’s indiscriminate tariff policy that is hurting small businesses in Chinatown, Richmond, Sunset and many other neighborhoods.
- Restore the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, gutted by the Trump administration, to protect consumers from predatory lending, junk fees and financial fraud.
- Support targeted, strategic trade measures that protect American workers and level the playing field in trade around climate and the environment, without fueling large corporations and their special interests.
- Enforce the Robinson-Patman Act, which prohibits anticompetitive price discrimination and protects small retailers from unfair, volume-based discounts given to large chain stores, through robust funding for the Federal Trade Commission and accountability for bringing action.
- End “surveillance pricing” and ban companies from using personal data to charge different customers different prices for the same goods.
- Create cultural and language mandates within the Small Business Administration to provide equal access to immigrant small and micro business owners.
- Expand support for community bank networks so they can provide localized services and accessible loans for small and micro businesses.
- Increase grant opportunities for first-time small business owners as well as micro business incubators to encourage start-up entrepreneurships.
- Fund community colleges to offer free courses in business finance, marketing strategies and skill certifications (i.e. culinary art, interior design, etc) that provide pathways to launch successful and sustainable small businesses.
- Enact climate disclosure and other critical corporate transparency requirements on the federal level, including requiring high standards from all large corporations selling into American markets, foreign and domestic alike, and undoing the Trump Administration’s rollback of SEC climate and other vital disclosures.
Legislation connie will cosponsor: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/affordable-community-plan at this heading)
- Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 4528): Create a new federal ban on grossly excessive price increases, and authorize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general to enforce the ban.
- American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S.4746): Prohibits large online platforms from anti-competitive practices such as self-preferencing, restricting competitor access, and misusing platform data.
- Protecting American Consumers from Robocalls Act (H.R.8311): Strengthens existing robocall protections, expanding the Do-Not-Call Registry to include small businesses, and empowering consumers to sue after just one illegal call.
- Franchisee Freedom Act (H.R.4614): Empower franchisees to sue franchisors for FTC Franchise Rule violations and protect their right to organize without retaliation.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/affordable-community-plan
Under the Trump Administration, immigration enforcement has become a tool of terror. ICE has detained people at green-card interviews and routine check-ins, targeting individuals with decades of U.S. residency, U.S.-born children and stable employment. Dangerous operations are happening in homes, schools, workplaces and places of worship, spreading fear across communities. Meanwhile, Congress has done absolutely nothing to stop ICE. No comprehensive reform, no functional asylum system and no pathway to citizenship for millions of essential workers. ICE raids have become an instrument of political intimidation. San Francisco knows immigrants built this sanctuary city, and they deserve a representative who will fight for dignity and due process.
Connie Will: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- Abolish ICE, an agency that has become lawless, and restructure the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) around humane, due-process-based enforcement.
- Champion comprehensive immigration reform that creates streamlined pathways to citizenship, affirms birthright and naturalized citizenship, fixes a broken asylum system and ends Trump's third-country deportation practices.
- Protect sanctuary city laws in San Francisco from federal interference because sanctuary policies allow immigrant communities to build stronger relationships with local city governments and law enforcement and make communities at large safer.
- Reform the Temporary Protected Status program to insulate it from politically-motivated reversals like those we have seen from the Trump Administration. TPS status should be based on the stability and security of a refugee’s home country not the whims of political appointees.
- Increase visas for family immigration categories that are severely backlogged
- Allow longtime residents who are eligible to immigrate to adjust their status in the United States without being required to leave the country.
- Increase funding for frontline organizations in CA-11 that assist immigrant survivors of domestic violence, trafficking and abuse.
- Expand culturally and linguistically specific safety net services for Limited English speakers.
Legislation connie will cosponsor: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- Working for Immigrant Safety and Empowerment (WISE) Act (H.R.2851): Expands U visa eligibility to additional crime victims, mandates work authorization and eliminates the visa cap, protects applicants from detention, and restricts immigration enforcement near schools and healthcare facilities.
- American Dream and Promise Act (H.R.1589): Grant Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who meet education, military, and conduct requirements, and TPS visa holders a path to permanent residency and eventual citizenship.
- Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act (H.R.6397): Repeal mandatory detention, prohibit the detention of families and children in family detention, phase out the use of private detention facilities and jails, and establish civil detention standards.
- U.S. Citizenship Act (H.R.3194 - 2023): Creates a pathway to citizenship for undocumented individuals through a new “lawful prospective immigrant” status, and addressing related issues such as refugee processing, border staffing, and anti-discrimination protections.
- Citizenship for Essential Workers Act (H.R. 3043 - 2023): Creates a pathway to permanent residency for non-U.S. nationals who worked as essential workers during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/democracy-plan
Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision dismantling 50 years of federal abortion protections, more than 20 states have enacted bans or severe restrictions, stripping millions of women of the right to control their own bodies, health and futures. The consequences disproportionately impact those with barriers to access: low-income women, women of color and rural residents forced to travel hundreds of miles to a health clinic. The Trump Administration’s attacks on Planned Parenthood, mifepristone access and FDA-approved contraception threaten the reproductive health infrastructure that over two million Americans depend on annually.
Connie Will: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- Restore the federal protections of Roe v. Wade and guarantee access to abortion care nationwide.
- Repeal the Hyde Amendment to ensure abortion coverage is accessible in all federal health programs.
- Restore full federal funding to Planned Parenthood, which provides critical health services to over 2 million Americans every year.
- Oppose any federal abortion ban and vote against legislation restricting access to FDA-approved birth control, mifepristone or any other lawful reproductive health intervention.
- Mandate maternity leave, and expand leave to include miscarriage.
- Expand healthcare investments to include family planning such as IVF.
- Push culturally competent healthcare for BIPOC women, specifically addressing black mother maternal mortality.
Legislation connie will cosponsor: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- Women's Health Protection Act (H.R.12): Restores the federal protections of Roe v. Wade and guarantees access to abortion care nationwide.
- Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act (H.R.4611): Ensures abortion coverage through all federal health programs.
- Abortion Justice Act (H.R.4303 - 2023): Repeals the Hyde Amendment.
- Right to Contraception Act (H.R. 999): Create a statutory right to obtain and use contraceptives and ensure health care providers have a right to provide contraceptives, contraception, and share information about this essential care.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/democracy-plan
The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder dismantled the framework of the Voting Rights Act, eliminating federal guardrails that had blocked discriminatory electoral changes for nearly five decades. The result: jurisdictions enacted voter ID registrations, aggressive purges and poll closures in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods. At the same time, Citizens United transformed elections, allowing unlimited corporate and dark money to take over and flood our democracy. Reversing this requires structural change.
Connie will: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- Restore and strengthen the 1965 Voting Rights Act, holding jurisdictions accountable after Shelby County v. Holder gutted federal oversight.
- Support automatic voter registration for all eligible Americans and expand early voting, vote-by-mail and same-day voter registration nationally.
- Push to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizen’s United.
- Ban members of Congress and their immediate families from stock or cryptocurrency trading or prediction market bets.
legislation connie will co-sponsor: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- John Lewis Voting Rights Act (H.R.14): Restores and strengthens the 1965 Voting Rights Act, holding jurisdictions accountable for voter suppression.
- H.J.Res. 122: Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, with ethics and accountability measures for Congress and the Supreme Court.
- Freedom to Vote Act (H.R.11 - 2024): strengthen American democracy by expanding voter access and registration, enhancing election security, restoring voting rights for non-incarcerated citizens with felony convictions, reforming redistricting practices, and overhauling campaign finance rules to increase transparency and limit foreign influence.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/democracy-plan
American democracy is facing a corruption crisis. Federal institutions are being used as both shields for the wealthy and well-connected, and weapons to punish dissent. When the Department of Justice becomes a political instrument, when Medicaid is gutted and when civil rights enforcement is being dismantled, the government is being redesigned to serve the wealthy, not the working people. Stock-trading by members of Congress continues to corrode public trust and lifetime Supreme Court appointments entrench power in the hands of a few for generations to come. Bringing back public trust, oversight, congressional investigations and committee accountability is required to defend the Constitution.
Corruption not only defeats the purpose of the Constitution, but also promotes economic injustice by redirecting public resources toward special interests. The American people are fed up with a government that prioritizes corporate and special interests. Ending the influence of corporate money in our elections and government is essential to restoring trust in our democracy. Accountability and economic justice are tied together.
connie will: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- Call for full and transparent Congressional investigations into the gutting of healthcare, Medicaid, reproductive rights, civil rights enforcement, LGBTQ+ protections and immigrant due process rights. Push for real accountability and transparency on the activities of DOGE and their impact on critical programs and the privacy of the American people.
- Create an independent oversight taskforce to investigate the Trump Administration and hold the Department of Justice accountable for using federal law enforcement as a political weapon against opponents, journalists, protesters or immigrant communities.
- Use committee oversight and public hearings to spotlight abuses of executive authority and crack down on corruption and special interest influence in government.
- Establish term limits for newly appointed Supreme Court Justices.
- Mandate that the White House and Congress publish records of contacts from lobbyists and interested parties (federal contractors).
- Expand the restrictions and close loopholes on members of Congress from becoming lobbyists when they step down from their seats.
- Push for unionization for at-will congressional aides for more worker protection, enhance whistleblower integrity and protection, and mandate timeline for investigation and resolution, which will help curb corruption on Capital Hill.
legislation connie will cosponsor: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/democracy-plan at this heading)
- Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (H.R. 9623 - 2022): Establishes accountability mechanisms, independent commissions, and subpoena power to investigate abuses of executive authority.
- Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 8831): Additional accountability mechanisms for executive overreach and congressional ethics.
- Stop Ballroom Bribery Act (H.R. 6085): Cracks down on corruption and prevents special interests from buying influence in government.
- Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (HR 4890): Bans Members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks and other non-diversified investments, enforces compliance through public certification and online disclosure, and strengthens penalties for financial reporting violations.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/democracy-plan
Connie Chan will fight attempts — from either party — to weaponize the fight against antisemitism as a tool to punish students, teachers, and scholars for criticizing the policies of any government, including Israel’s. She opposed AB 715, a Trumpian attack on freedom of speech which teachers’ unions, including the California Teachers Association, warned would let the state police classroom discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under vague, subjective standards. Real protection for Jewish students, which they deserve, doesn’t require silencing Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian - or any - students, or gutting academic freedom for everyone. Connie will stand against every form of bigotry — and against censorship dressed up as anti-bigotry.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/democracy-plan
The Trump Administration has been a disaster on foreign policy (as well as domestic). Connie Chan firmly opposes Trump’s destruction of programs that supported vulnerable children and families overseas and their foolish trade war that has hurt our relationships and raised prices for consumers.
Connie is firmly committed to a foreign policy that prioritizes peaceful solutions and supports democratic ideals and human rights. She will push to de-prioritize the use of military force and work for fair trade that uplifts workers and protects the global environment. And she will work to restore critical and life-saving foreign aid programs.
Connie will also work to restore the relationship with allies that the Trump administration has destroyed. Trump’s threats to invade the territories of key allies such as Canada and Denmark have pushed away partners and made the US less safe. Connie will work towards a national security strategy that is based on strength being based not in bluster and bombs but in alliances and cooperation.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/foreign-policy
Health care is a human right and the foundation of economic opportunity. The Trump Administration’s 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act cuts over $1 trillion in healthcare spending through 2034, threatens coverage for 22 million Americans on Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans, and imposes significant Medicaid cuts, leaving an estimated 15 million people uninsured. Fragmented coverage, skyrocketing drug prices, eroding subsidies and defunded community clinics disproportionately impact working families, communities of color and the elderly. Insurance companies and drug corporations are profiting off of people’s suffering, and Washington D.C. is allowing it to happen.
Connie Chan has spent her career fighting back. When Trump came after Medicaid, she built a $400 million firewall to protect healthcare for San Francisco’s working families, seniors, and immigrant communities. The National Nurses United endorsed Connie because they know that she’ll always choose patient care over corporate donors. In Congress, Connie will fight for Medicare for All, restore ACA subsidies, reverse Medicaid cuts, fund community health clinics and bring back drug price negotiation. Working people built this country, and they deserve a healthcare system that works for them.
Connie will: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/working-families-plan at this heading)
- Build the broad coalition of workers, farmers, small businesses and others needed to pass Medicare for All and strengthen health care services for all Americans while we make that transition.
- Immediately reverse Trump-era cuts to Medicaid, restore ACA subsidies and make those tax credits permanent so working families can afford coverage.
- Reverse Trump-era cuts to National Institute of Health, and increase funding for research for diseases like Alzheimer, HIV/AIDS, cancer and more.
- Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, hearing, in-home support services, long-term care, reproductive care, acupuncture, continuum of care (for homeless housing subsidies and drug treatments) and gender-affirming care.
- Reinstate and expand Biden-era drug price negotiation, oppose pharmaceutical price gouging, and lift the payroll tax cap so the wealthiest Americans contribute their fair share to universal healthcare.
- Lower prescription drug costs by requiring that pharmaceutical companies offer medication at no more than the lowest price per drug in similar countries, like France.
- Protect and expand healthcare access for transgender and gender nonconforming and intersex people.
- Break insurance and other health care monopolies to ensure healthcare is driven by medical experts and not Wall Street monopoly returns.
- Increase funding for disease prevention and intervention care for conditions disproportionately impacting communities of color including Hepatitis B, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and adverse maternal health outcomes.
- Require minimum staffing standards for emergency rooms, and mental and behavioral health services.
Legislation Connie will cosponsor: ↗ (opens conniechansf.com/working-families-plan at this heading)
- Medicare for All Act (H.R.3069): Guarantees every American a right to comprehensive healthcare.
- Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act (H.R.3415): Mandates minimum nurse-to-patient ratios across hospital units, Medicare reimbursement adjustments, whistleblower protections for nurses, and financial incentives to grow and retain the nursing workforce.
- Health Equity and Accountability Act (H.R. 9161, 2024): Addresses systematic disparities in healthcare access and outcomes.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · conniechansf.com/working-families-plan