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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 8 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Down syndrome adults, but you don't see the unhappy Down syndrome adults. And what I came to the realization with is that's because they become institutionalized. And so that is the situation that faces many different communities, is that I know, within the psychiatric disability end, the sort of management that one has to have of affect and so forth is incredibly draining. But one has to do it because of continuous concern of institutionalization or other forms of violence against them. And that in itself is the cause of more traumatization, so it is incredibly difficult. And that's where I think the importance of different communities, who haven't allied in the past is really important, so I appreciate your question. Thank you. Jennifer Roloff: My other question is, so right now there's petitions going around to get sort of a revision of Prop 13 back on the ballot. And I remember coming from a family, personally, who, I have a brother with disabilities after Prop 13 and then following Prop 9 in California, a lot of the resources closed up for people with disabilities. So, I think they're trying to put something back. I think it's its own measure, but you're probably familiar with it, I forget what the number is. It amends Prop 13 to include commercial that was excluded from the whole property tax. And I'm wondering does your organization get behind any political initiatives or do they do any lobbying? Karen Nakamura: We don't do lobbying per se because we're part of the University of California. That's not our goal, but we do produce white papers, and so we do have white papers that think particularly about the housing crisis and what are the factors behind the housing crisis and behind the de-funding of the state government. Many times, whether it's at the city, county, or state, or Federal level we're finding that we just don't have the money to do things and, in many ways, that was a deliberate strategy. If you can control the money supply, you can control what's possible. And so, I think we need to rethink how we fund things. And certainly, reform of real estate taxes is really critical, especially in the current environment that we're in. And so many things could be done if Proposition 13 was even partially revoked. But there's so much fear around that. Everyone is afraid that if we tinker with it, there will be devastating consequences, but it's hard to also remember that if we don't do anything, we have devastating consequences. We already have devastating consequences. Jennifer Roloff: Does your organization have a website with a link that has a different white papers that you produce? Karen Nakamura: It does, yes. Jennifer Roloff: Okay, great. And will you leave that with Laurie or this deck or whatever? Thank you. Karen Nakamura: Yes I will. Thank you very much. Jenn Barrett: I also had a question. I really enjoyed your presentation, I thought it was very interesting. Can you go over a little bit about what the Haas Institute does and then provide any information on outreach for people who want to get involved in some of these issues? Karen Nakamura: Yes. So we were funded as a distinct unit on campus that tries to think 04/11/18 Page 8 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |