Xavier Becerra: Becerra’s Position on Intersecting Issues

Jan 9
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Xavier Becerra – former U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services and California AG. — Educational Resources for Underserved Communities

National experience meets California-sized problems: Big-government fluency, state-level ambition

Xavier Becerra enters the race with heavyweight credentials — former California Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. His campaign leans into scale: California’s problems, he argues, require solutions as large as its economy.

Implications for Los Angeles County and the Black Homeless Population

Homelessness: Becerra frames homelessness through healthcare, mental health, and housing policy integration. He supports expanding supportive housing and leveraging federal-state coordination to address behavioral health needs. The strategy is comprehensive, though execution would depend on navigating California’s fragmented local systems.

Policy orientation: Becerra’s core experience — most recently as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services — shapes his worldview: treat basic human needs like housing as part of a holistic approach that ties in health outcomes and care systems. During his federal tenure, he publicly supported the idea that states could use

Medicaid and health dollars to support housing-related stability — treating stable housing as foundational to improve strong health outcomes. That view suggests a structural lens: homelessness isn’t only a housing issue but a public health issue too.

The goal is simple: give voters a clearer picture of who wants to lead California

Educational Resources for Underserved Communities

Education & Higher Education Access: Becerra emphasizes affordability and access, particularly through student aid, debt reduction, and protecting public education funding. His lens is systemic — removing financial barriers rather than redesigning classroom-level outcomes.

California’s public discourse on schooling makes clear that Black students continue to underperform relative to statewide averages — particularly in core subjects like English language arts and math. Solutions proposed in Sacramento. According the legislative body in California have struggled because of legal concerns surrounding Prop 209.

On January 17, California’s gubernatorial hopefuls will step into a rare, unscripted moment of public accountability in education and child safety concerns. — How to break the cycles of illiteracy

Bridging the Technological Divide: With federal experience in broadband expansion, Becerra supports statewide connectivity, digital infrastructure investment, and public-private partnerships. Technology access is treated as economic infrastructure essential for mobility and competitiveness.

Environmental Safety: Climate policy is one of his clearer lanes. Becerra supports aggressive environmental protections, public health-centered climate action, and disaster preparedness. Environmental safety is framed as both a moral and economic imperative.

Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and former California Attorney General. Becerra’s platform draws on executive experience in healthcare policy, civil rights enforcement, and state governance. For many voters, this election isn’t about ideology—it’s about competence. Can the next governor manage complexity, balance budgets, and deliver measurable progress? Forums like the January 17th Empowerment Congress Summit event serve as an early test of whether candidates understand the scale—and urgency—of the problems Californians face.

Bottom line: Becerra campaigns as a big-systems operator. His strength is scale and integration; his challenge is translating federal-level policy fluency into nimble, local results.