Alex Shoor
Alex Shoor ran for election to the San Jose City Council to represent District 6 in California. He lost in the primary on March 5, 2024.
Shoor completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Alex Shoor earned a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in 2003 and a graduate degree from the University of Southern California in 2011. His career experience includes working as a nonprofit executive director.[1]
Shoor has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- San Jose Housing & Community Development Commission
- Barack Obama Boulevard Committee
- Greater Rose Garden Certified Farmers Market
- New Leaders Council, Silicon Valley Chapter
- Silicon Valley Young Democrats
- Shasta/Hanchett Park Neighborhood Association
- Grand Boulevard Initiative
- New Leaders Council, Silicon Valley Chapter
Elections
2024
See also: City elections in San Jose, California (2024)
General election
General election for San Jose City Council District 6
Michael Mulcahy defeated Olivia Navarro in the general election for San Jose City Council District 6 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Michael Mulcahy (Nonpartisan) | 51.3 | 19,629 |
 | Olivia Navarro (Nonpartisan) | 48.7 | 18,632 | |
| Total votes: 38,261 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for San Jose City Council District 6
Michael Mulcahy and Olivia Navarro defeated Alex Shoor and Angelo Pasciuti in the primary for San Jose City Council District 6 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Mulcahy (Nonpartisan) | 39.3 | 8,695 |
| ✔ | | Olivia Navarro (Nonpartisan) | 31.2 | 6,913 |
 | Alex Shoor (Nonpartisan) | 17.4 | 3,850 | |
 | Angelo Pasciuti (Nonpartisan) | 12.1 | 2,688 | |
| Total votes: 22,146 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Alex Shoor completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Shoor's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’ve dedicated my career to ending the housing crisis. I served eight years on San José’s Housing & Community Development Commission and founded a local nonprofit to advocate for housing for everyone. I’ve ensured housing that’s affordable for our community, benefiting new and existing residents, including teachers, nurses, and working families.
My approach is upstream policymaking, meaning solving issues earlier before they get worse. My homelessness plan addresses root causes – preventing evictions; permanent supportive housing; safe and centralized locations to provide services; and mental health care.
I’ll fight to reduce crime and increase neighborhood safety by filling police officer vacancies while hiring more community service officers and mental health professionals. I’ll lead on the environment with initiatives to plant more trees, maintain parks, and improve transportation.
This is how we build a safe, thriving, and affordable community for all of us. I’m endorsed by Retired District 6 City Councilmember Ken Yeager, have a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood, and hope to earn your vote too. www.AlexShoor.com- Reduce the Cost of Housing & the Extent of Homelessness
- Safer Streets & Smarter Approaches to Crime and Public Safety
- Advance Sustainability to Preserve our Environment
Community Benefits: As part of the community engagement process, I will push developers to ensure projects include amenities and benefits to the broader neighborhood (in addition to the residents or workers of the new building). Examples of community benefits include retail, restaurants, coffee shops, childcare, a community room, a community garden, public art, and streetscape improvements. This can bring homes closer to businesses, offices, and green spaces, which will benefit us all.
Many people can’t afford to live in San Jose. It costs way too much. The two biggest reasons: wages are too low for some people and housing costs are too high for everyone. Housing is too expensive whether you’re a homeowner seeking to buy or a renter scraping by. No parent should have to see their child move away because they can’t afford it, no young person should not be able to afford rent in their hometown, and no grandparent should have to leave the region when they sell their home here.
We must have more housing in San José. Dozens of my friends and loved ones have left our community because they can’t afford housing here. Meanwhile, the high cost and low availability of housing are forcing more and more people into homelessness.
San Jose’s housing shortage is the greatest threat to our city’s future. And our city government is working hard on this issue, implementing a lot of essential, successful programs. Yet it’s not enough.
Having spent nearly a decade working in-depth on housing & homeless issues, I have practical plans composed of 6 pillars for addressing these overlapping issues:
Pillar 1: Travel Upstream to Better Solve Problems
Pillar 2: Protect Vulnerable Renters
Pillar 3: Build More Housing, Especially Affordable Housing
Pillar 4: Guarantee Housing Benefits the Whole Community
Pillar 5: Assist Our Homeless Neighbors
Housing Action Coalition
South Bay YIMBY
100% Rating From Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
Ken Yeager, Former City Council Member District 6 & Former County Supervisor
Josh Becker, State Senator D13
Ted Lempert, State Assembly (former)
Chappie Jones, San Jose City Council (former)
Karina Dominguez, Milpitas City Council (former)
Teresa O’Neill, Santa Clara City Council (former)
Marsha Grilli, Milpitas City Council (former)
Omar Din, Sunnyvale City Council
Sergio Lopez, Campbell City Council
Suds Jain, Santa Clara City Council
Anthony Phan, Milpitas City Council
Rob Moore, Los Gatos Town Council
Lucas Ramirez, Mountain View City Council
JR Fruen, Cupertino City Council
Richard Lowenthal, Cupertino Mayor (former)
Mike Wasserman, Santa Clara County Supervisor (former)
Molly O’Neal, Santa Clara County Public Defender
Bevan Dufty, BART Board of Directors
Raeena Lari, Santa Clara County Board of Education
Claudia Rossie, Santa Clara County Board of Education
Sequoia Hall, Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (former)
Carla Hernandez, Oak Grove School District
Taunya Jaco, Oak Grove School District
Brian Wheatley, San Jose Unified School District
Milan Balinton, Franklin-McKinley School District
Rod Sinks, Fremont Union High School District
Richard H. Nguyen, Campbell Union School District
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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