meet omar din
The South Bay has shaped the person Omar is today —
His parents immigrated from Pakistan in 1983 and settled in Sunnyvale, where they are still small business owners – his father runs a dental practice and his mother operates a daycare center.
Civic engagement was ingrained in Omar from a young age. He became one of Sunnyvale’s youngest appointed commissioners while still in community college, and went on to work for Congressman Mike Honda and Assemblymember Evan Low.
Omar successfully ran for the Sunnyvale City Council in 2020 on a platform of making Sunnyvale a city that all people can afford to live and stay in.
Since his election, he has led on a number of key issues facing the South Bay:
Lowering housing costs: Omar worked closely with Google and other local businesses to pass the Moffett Park Specific Plan, a comprehensive plan to develop 1,156 acres neighboring Moffett Airfield into a modern commercial and residential community with 20,000 new housing units – including 3,000 affordable units – to ease our region’s housing affordability crisis.
Addressing homelessness: Omar voted to create 200 new homeless shelter units in San Jose, even when special interests fought hard to oppose this common-sense plan.
Reducing income inequality: Omar led the effort to pilot universal basic income to provide monthly financial assistance to the city’s low-income residents.
Supporting education: As a VTA board member, Omar pushed for the creation of a unique bus route from North to South Sunnyvale so students could take public transit to get to school at Fremont High School.
Green infrastructure: Omar supported creating many miles of new bike lanes throughout the city and built out 20 new electric vehicle charging stations to facilitate the transition to clean, zero-emission transportation.
