MOVING FORWARD BY WORKING TOGETHER
These past three years, I’m proud of the work my team and I have done at City Hall to lay the foundation for a 15-minute city. We have brought a community-first approach to budgeting and good governance. We made investments in neighborhoods long forgotten by the city.
We did this with an unwavering commitment to our neighbors to build a healthy, vibrant, safe, and affordable city.
Healthy Communities
We prioritized community health when we funded the Green New Deal and invested nearly $3 Million to create Community Resilience Hubs for neighbors to escape extreme heat and smoke events. We preserved $112K for Rainier Beach’s A Beautiful Safe Place for Youth program and invested $550k for a Restorative Justice pilot program in schools.
Vibrant Neighborhoods
We prioritized the vibrancy of our communities with investments of $250K for an arts hub led by Black and brown youth, $2 Million towards the construction of Rainier Beach Skate Park, and $1.25 million to protect access to reproductive care & gender-affirming care.
Safety
For too long, community safety was understood largely as a criminal justice issue, without attention to the underlying causes of violence. We prioritized the making the CID and south end safe with $23.5 million in community economic recovery, neighborhood revitalization, micro-businesses, and cultural spaces, millions of dollars for sidewalk improvements across South Seattle—including Beacon Hill and Rainier Avenue, $440K to implement a Neighborhood Safety Model & increase street outreach in the Chinatown/International District, and more.
Affordability
Most importantly, we prioritized making life a little more affordable—because all these improvements mean nothing if the people who need them the most no longer live here to benefit from them: We supported and protected renters with our Tenants Bill of Rights, supported small businesses with stabilization funding, as well as $600K to protect critical homelessness services and programming.
TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE THE FUTURE WE ALL DESERVE
All of us, no matter our income or our race, deserve to live in a home where we feel secure, to easily get to work or school, and to put food on the table at the end of the day. These are the concerns I hear about from my community in District 2 and the values I bring with me every day to City Hall. By working together for the last four years we’ve made progress on connecting our communities, keeping people in their homes, and undoing past harms.
I’ve represented District 2 with unwavering commitment to the people of my community and our work is not done. Together, we can make the future we all deserve.
OUR WORK TOGETHER
I represent YOU at City Hall. I’ve spent the last four years listening to residents, workers, activists, and employers in our district to best serve our community. We’ve accomplished a lot together, but there are still pressing issues we face. We are working together to make our District and our City a place where all of us can thrive:
Affordable Housing for Everyone
Keeping people in their homes and finding housing for those who don’t have a home is an ongoing challenge in our city. Throughout the pandemic, I prioritized keeping people in their homes by enacting an eviction moratorium, closing the “end-of-lease loophole” to prevent evictions, and creating a new legal defense for renters. I directed critical funding to homelessness services and programming.
Restorative Justice
All of us deserve to feel safe and welcome in our communities, free from harm in our schools and public spaces. To start repairing the harm of the racist disciplinary system in our schools toward Black and Brown youth, I directed $550k for a restorative justice pilot program in Seattle high schools. To further protect our youth, I increased funding for Black girls and Black queer and transgender youth programs. To directly address harm inflicted on our community by law enforcement, I created a program for families and victims of police violence.
Our Connected Communities
Streets and greenspaces allow for walkable, connected neighborhoods. But in our district, those spaces have been in disrepair. In the past four years I’ve secured funding to improve sidewalks along Rainier Ave, on Beacon Hill, and throughout South Seattle. We engaged the community to make improvements to Lake Washington Blvd. We restored funding for the Georgetown to South Park Trail, the completion of Cheasty Greenspace Trail, and developed traffic calming projects for streets in south Seattle to make it safer for people of all ages and abilities to walk, bike, and roll.