I am the only candidate in this race who has consistently supported the need for PROGRESSIVE REVENUE.

To keep our programs and services, I will

• Build a coalition across communities, organizations, and elected officials to explore progressive revenue options, ensuring we protect programs and corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share.

• Protect and defend Jumpstart funding – designated towards affordable housing, equitable development, and Green New Deal initiatives – from long-term backfilling of the General Fund.

• Explore additional revenue options – including a local capital gains tax, high payroll tax, and real estate transfer tax – that can generate revenue to fund programs that address our city’s most critical issues.

• Work with Seattle’s state delegation to explore how the Legislature can create more revenue options for municipalities. 



• Do the hard work to balance our budget and represent community priorities.
  

TO ADDRESS THIS URGENCY, I WILL

• Protect, grow, and diversify investments into affordable housing to the scale identified by statewide-modeling efforts, including promoting zoning and comprehensive plan updates that increase housing options and affordability in every Seattle neighborhood.

• Support community-based development with goals to stop the displacement of low-income communities and communities of color out of urban areas, and increase high-density, transit-oriented development.

• Expand strategies that help people maintain their housing to prevent homelessness, including emergency rental assistance, utility shut off assistance, and small/ community based landlord engagement.

• Prioritize increasing funding for changes and expansions to homelessness services and temporary housing as identified in the Five Year Plan. 

• Advocate for state-level renter protections, including sensible caps on rent increases and other reforms that keep people housed without slowing investment in new home construction. 
  

TO IMPROVE SAFETY, I WILL

• Work at the grassroots, city, and state level to keep guns out of the hands of our youth, dangerous individuals, and people at risk of harming themselves or loved ones.

• Evaluate current investments into public safety to ensure funding is being utilized in the most effective way.

• Innovate and introduce newer models that support crime intervention, prevention and community wellness.

• Continue investments in programs like Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), Community Passageways, and others that help restore lives, prevent violence, and end cycles of incarceration and generational harm.

• Continue to invest in dual-dispatch programs like the CARE team.

• Combat the overdose epidemic: 
• Increase access to community-based treatment
• Support efforts with partners to grow our behavioral health workforce and facilities
• Ensure overdose reversal medication and fentanyl testing access is expansive.

• Work alongside and listen to communities most impacted by violence.
  

AS A VOICE FOR YOUNGER WORKERS

WITH A COMMITMENT TO ALL

WORKING PEOPLE, I WILL

• Continue advocating for living wages and affordable, quality healthcare for workers.

• Improve access to good jobs for low-income communities and people of color historically left out of economic prosperity

• Work to end discrimination and exploitation of immigrant workers

• Support the right of workers to organize and seek union representation

• Support job creation in clean energy, including EV infrastructure, conversion to clean home heating and cooling, and other areas where we can grow jobs and provide career opportunities.

• Ensure that the Office of Fair Labor Standards is resourced to be able continue to protect the rights of workers.

• Protect City unions' contracts from rollback or opposition.

• Promote Community Workforce Agreements, Project Labor Agreements, and other fair wage and local hire standards.

• Promote apprenticeship utilization and other entry points to bring women, BIPOC, and non-traditional workers into highly paid skilled trades careers. 

• Advocate and prioritize funding for frontline staff in human services work to advance pay equity and support workforce stabilization.
  

TO CULTIVATE TRUE

CLIMATE RESILIENCE, I WILL

• Support infrastructure investments and leveraging of state and federal funds to modernize existing public buildings and push for adoption of Seattle's Green Building standards. 

• Target critical projects that increase green spaces– such as parks, community gardens, and urban forests– in historically under-resourced neighborhoods ensuring equitable access for all communities.

• Establish workforce development initiatives focused on training people  in green industries for a just transition.

• Combat car emissions by thoughtfully investing in and encouraging greener modes of transportation.

• Incorporate anti-displacement strategies to keep people’s commutes short, and remain connected to the communities they call home.

• Address localized air and water pollution issues that disproportionately impact young people of color and low income households with partnerships for HVAC improvements in housing, better capture and treatment of stormwater, transition to cleaner vehicles, and other safeguards.

• Protect Seattle’s Green New Deal funding to maintain and accelerate climate action and sustainability policies and community partnerships citywide.

• Address food deserts, food scarcity, and lack of healthy food access through protecting the city’s Fresh Bucks programs, expanding community gardens, improving partnerships with local growers and farmers markets, and encouraging union-represented grocery expansion in growing and underserved neighborhoods.

• Partner across the state for affordable energy prices, equitable distribution of solar infrastructure, and accountable utilities.
  

TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND MOBILITY, I WILL

• Support the Move Seattle Levy renewal to invest in basics like road and bridge repair, safer access to transit and schools, reduce need for short car trips to neighborhood shopping and services, and meet climate goals through electrification, streetside tree planting, and other improvements.

• Improve safety and connectivity with thoughtful street redesign, pedestrian lighting, protected bike lanes, and transit stop safety and repairs. 

• Center people in navigating our city to build an integrated local system that prioritizes walking, rolling, biking and public transit. 

• Make navigating our city easier through new sidewalks, reducing barriers to biking, better transit schedules, and accessible pedestrian signals.

• Support equitable transit-oriented development to make our community accessible to all.

• Work with state and local partners to secure funding for multi-family and public EV charging stations, and other programs that lower the barrier to clean and zero-emission vehicle adoption

• Explore progressive revenue options to fund changes to our public transit to align with community priorities for safety, mobility, maintenance, and livability.
  

I’m proud of my long record of fighting for racial, gender, disability, and LGBTQ justice,

and on Council I will

• Work with King County Public Health, Planned Parenthood, UW Medicine and other providers of full spectrum reproductive and gender-affirming care to safeguard services from financial, legal, and ideological attack.

• Stand with LGBTQIA+ leaders and neighbors to safeguard rights and personal safety. 

• Engage with leaders on disability rights to improve accessibility, protections and rights for people living with physical and developmental disabilities. 

• Ensure Seattle remains a sanctuary city welcoming to immigrants and refugees, with services and supports in place to assist with housing, education, health care and other critical needs.
  

TO EMPOWER SEATTLE, I WILL

• Expand city partnerships with small businesses– especially startups by women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs– throughout the City to lower barriers and costs to creating jobs and opportunities. 

• Identify, build, and improve artist and “maker spaces” throughout Seattle to encourage creative enterprise, foster expression, and provide affordable housing and support.

• Leverage new County funding for arts and cultural programs to benefit community-based and regional organizations that improve equity and access to experiences and inspiration.

• Protect music and nightlife venues throughout the city to maintain accessible, affordable, and culturally diverse music and performance opportunities for artists and fans alike. 

• Complete waterfront park and pedestrian improvements, connecting this incredible redeveloped asset to downtown other cultural institutions.

• Prepare Seattle for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, when nearly a million visitors will come to our region– and compete to host the Women’s World Cup in 2027.