PLATFORM

Affordable Housing

Ensuring quality market value housing and supporting neighborhood rehabilitation

• Establish a Tenants' Bill of Rights

• Funding the 2018 Housing Plan

• Increase education on Landlord/Tenants Rights and Responsibilities

• Ensure Property Owners' are held accountable for complying with the law

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Livability 

Clean neighborhoods, healthy citizens, engaged youth and active seniors

• Establish a process in the Public Improvements Advisory Committee (PIAC) to fund projects consistently
  to ensure completion

• Establish a coalition of neighborhood associations/advisory board in the Fifth District to review and
  prioritize PIAC requests

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Infrastructure

Supporting basic services - streets, sidewalks, trash, water, sewage, mowing and trees

• Improve snowplowing services

• Establish a reward system for reporting illegal dumping that leads to a person being fined

• Increase bulky item pickup and decrease illegal dumping

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Public Safety 

Ensuring that our neighborhoods are safe for everyone is a top priority

• Increase neighborhood involvement in resolving conflict​ on low-level offenses

• Working with neighborhood leaders, schools, law enforcement, attorneys, civic leaders, businesses to
  support community-oriented programs 

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Economic Development

Supporting the growth of jobs and businesses in the 5th District

• Focus on the City-Wide Business Plan

• Collaborate with schools, unions and businesses to educate and expand apprenticeships/internships

• Promote entrepreneurship, increase training, education about financial literacy and provide more
  resources to small businesses