PNC 10/25/2026

PNC Meeting Minutes: October 25th, 2026

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Pirate National Committee — All national committees

The October 25th 2026 PNC Meeting was one of the weekly meetings of the Pirate National Committee (PNC).

Agenda

Discussion

Old Business

Lookout Election

• The lookout position remains vacant. Due to the cancellation of the last PNC meeting, the election has been moved to October 25th.

All Hands for a Free Future Discussion

• Continuing discussions with our coalition partner on the future of All Hands for a Free Future.

New Business

Housing And Transit

At the October 20th Platform Committee meeting, the following was approved to be sent to PNC for consideration.

Housing is a human right. This means that housing should be affordable, accessible, habitable, and secure. Affordability means housing should be economical enough not to conflict with obtaining other basic needs. Housing must be accessible; located close to work, health-care facilities, schools, community centers, and other facilities without excessive commute times. Housing should be habitable. A house full of mold or lacking access to basic utilities is a disgrace. Housing should be secure. People should not face a strong threat of unwarranted eviction or otherwise being thrown out of their home. You can’t live your life with the constant threat of eviction hanging over you. As a start for recognizing this right, we propose the following:

• Establishing a right to decent housing with federal legislation.
• Ending no-cause evictions and holdover evictions.
• Establishing a federal right to counsel for tenants.
• Giving tenants, housing co-ops, and other qualified housing nonprofits the right of first refusal when their unit is sold—including mobile home parks.
• Prohibiting the algorithmic price fixing of rents.
• Disallowing credit checks in renting.
• Fully funding the housing choice voucher program.
• Providing funding for a housing-first model for homelessness at a federal level.
• Further prohibiting the ability of landlords to illegally discriminate by requiring a detailed report to an applicant denied for a rental, mortgage, home loan application, or similar.

Zoning is meant to be a limited extension of the policing power. Shamefully, it has been used as a discriminatory tool from its onset. We propose reducing non-industrial zoning powers to the most permissive possible while preserving health and safety. We must reconsider our 20th-century experiment in low-density land use and return to human-centered, livable cities. We have practically mandated car use in most cities. This forces everyone to drive, leaving those unable to or unwilling to behind. Cars are the leading source of microplastic pollution and the leading cause of air pollution in cities. While our publicly owned system of highways is among the best in the world, our railway system has languished under regional monopolies. We will:

• Restructure residential zoning categories to allow all types of housing, including ADUs, in residential zones.
• Replace property taxes at all levels with revenue-neutral land value taxes to promote productive development with substantially lowered rates for undeveloped land.
• Provide federal funding to support capital projects & operating expenses for new and existing bus, metro, light rail, and streetcar systems.
• Nationalize, electrify, and modernize railroad infrastructure while allowing existing rail companies to remain private operators.
• Construct a nationwide high-speed passenger rail system with expedited environmental review and minimal external contractors.

Minutes

Attending State Representatives

• State - Name

Absent States

• State

Non Voting

• Name - 2Letter, Role

Discussion

Meeting Recording

TBD