Soli Alpert has lived in Berkeley since attending Cal in 2015. He served as a Legislative Assistant at the Berkeley City Council from 2018 to 2022. In that time, he also served as a Steward and Delegate for SEIU Local 1021. At the Council, Commissioner Alpert focused on workers’ and tenants’ rights, affordable housing and anti-speculation and anti-displacement policy, and open and transparent governance reforms.
As a Commissioner, he has collaborated on proposals to expand the coverage of eviction control to more Berkeley tenants, shone a light on government inaction to protect tenants facing dangerous and uninhabitable living conditions, and advocated for mitigations in City upzoning proposals to protect vulnerable communities from displacement. His work includes helping to draft the Empty Homes Tax and The Berkeley Tenant Protection and Right to Organize Act (Measure BB).
Commissioner Alpert is a member of Local Progress, a national coalition of local progressive elected officials, the Berkeley Tenants Union, and East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.
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