Katherine Enos
Candidate for City Council (At-Large), Albany · Small Business Owner
Katherine Enos is a Bay Area native who grew up in Albany. She is a UC Berkeley graduate (American History) who also studied film theory at San Francisco State University. She was a longtime Albany tenant and now owns her childhood home in the city. She is the founder of Context By Signal, a web service focused on wireless service visibility, and her ballot designation is Small Business Owner.
Enos's campaign centers on responsive, accountable city government and housing affordability that goes beyond large apartment buildings. She wants the city to seriously consider whether consolidating some services with a neighboring city would be the better fiscal choice, and she wants residents to feel heard when they raise concerns. On housing, she supports a mix of tools -- ADUs, land trusts, resale-restricted housing, and inclusionary housing -- paired with protections against displacement, and she is critical of real-estate speculation that she says drives up costs for both owners and tenants. She also wants the city to review any surveillance technology it uses, weighing cost, data privacy, and ethical policing, including how police can access neighborhood doorbell cameras. On oversight, she wants accountability applied to the city's block coordinator program, the successor to the Neighborhood Watch program, whose members are not elected and are not responsible to their neighborhoods.
On the issues
- Housing & Homelessness
Opposes real-estate speculation and investor practices that drive up housing costs, and wants better oversight to reduce harassment of residents and slow gentrification.
“Cities are for living. No carte blanche for investors.”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports a comprehensive housing plan that goes beyond large rental buildings, using multiple tools together to constrain costs while increasing supply, with anti-displacement protections.
“A coherent plan could create land trusts and resale-restricted housing alongside inclusionary housing and ADUs.”
Source → - Technology & Privacy
Wants the city to review any surveillance systems currently in use, weighing cost, data privacy, and ethical-policing concerns, including police access to residents' doorbell cameras.
“Review any surveillance systems in use. Consider costs, data privacy, and ethical policing.”
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Wants city government to be more responsive when residents bring concerns, and is open to studying whether consolidating some services with a neighboring city would be the better fiscal decision.
“Residents should not be faced with lack of interest when they bring their concerns to the City.”
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Wants the city to reconsider and add accountability to its block coordinator program, the successor to Neighborhood Watch, whose members are not elected or responsible to their neighborhoods.
“No tax dollars without accountability. Reconsider the block coordinator program.”
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