Mari Mendonca
CA
Mari Mendonca is a union steward with Unite Here and a former Berkeley Rent Board member and Housing Advisory Commission vice chair. Her priorities are truly affordable housing with stronger rent protections and protecting neighborhood small businesses.
Where Mari Mendonca stands, based on their records
Supports
Social Programs and Welfare (1 record), Civil Rights (2 records)
Track record
Track record — Social Programs and Welfare
Social Programs and Welfare · 1 support
Seconded a Housing Advisory Commission recommendation, passed 6-0, giving priority for city-funded affordable housing to people displaced from Berkeley, homeless families, and people with ties to redlined areas.
October 6, 2022Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: berkeleyca.gov
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 2 support
Seconded a Housing Advisory Commission recommendation, passed 6-0, giving priority for city-funded affordable housing to people displaced from Berkeley, homeless families, and people with ties to redlined areas.
October 6, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: berkeleyca.gov
Co-wrote a Rent Board resolution affirming that Black Lives Matter and calling for action on institutional racism. The board passed it unanimously.
June 18, 2020Supports Civil Rights
Source: dailycal.org
Track record — General
General · 4 records
Lost the 2022 Berkeley City Council District 8 race to Mark Humbert, 26% to 64% in first-choice votes.
November 8, 2022
Source: berkeleyca.gov
Won election to the Berkeley Rent Board after first being appointed to the seat.
November 3, 2020
Source: rentboard.berkeleyca.gov
Abstained as a Rent Board member on a vote to ask voters to put backyard cottages (ADUs) under rent control, two years after voters exempted them. The board approved it 5-2-2.
May 29, 2020
Source: berkeleyside.org
Was appointed unanimously by the Berkeley Rent Board to fill a vacant seat, chosen from seven applicants.
October 17, 2019
Source: berkeleyside.org
Past race Mari Mendonca ran in:
- Member of City Council, District 8, City of Berkeley · November 3, 2026 · Berkeley city, California