we are joined now by housing >> reporter:, alan baldessari who wrote the definitive guide on having everysingle ballot measure fared on housing. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> tell us about these main types of housing measures. and what they look like. >> as you said the verlot. what is really interesting is here in the bay area what was facingoters was also facing voters across the state. with one exception. that was the vacancy taxes. tere were measures in berkeley, san francisco, and santa cruz asking voters to penalize or add fees for property owners who keep their homes or apartments intentionally vacant for certain amounts of time. >> we saw a lot of that during the pandemic. people were moving out but the nobody was coming in because owners were not really allowing that to happen. >> yeah. i think there is certainly a perception that this is a way property owners can use property to borrow against the equity. but when you really dig in to the numbers you see there are lots of reasons why people have homes vacant. whether they are waiting to rent it out, maybe they're doing