Where I Stand, In Every Room
This election cycle, twelve different groups sent their own questions, each one written from what that room cares about most. Here are my full answers to all twelve, each one linked to the platform and research behind it.
Housing, harm reduction, homelessness, property taxes, climate, and the everyday issues shaping this city.
The Voter Guide's core policy questions: top priorities, why I'm running, the city's biggest challenge and opportunity, development, and what I'd change.
Written by and for people who've lived it: hygiene access, food distribution, day space, shelter funding, syringe services, and getting to services safely.
Cruise tourism, Casco Bay, scrubber discharge, neighborhood impact, and what the city's own tariff can actually do about it.
Density, inclusionary zoning, social housing, the Amtrak station relocation, Reimagining Franklin Street, and what happens to the former Midtown lots.
The three short, word-limited questions for the October Election Edition print profile: relevant experience, why I'm running now, and the city's biggest failure.
The teachers union's questionnaire on the council's role in our schools, from a former K–12 substitute and third-grade teacher with teachers in his own family.
What historic preservation means to me, how I'd engage with ReCode's rewrite of the Land Use Code, adding housing density without losing what makes a historic neighborhood historic, and whether Portland should protect more areas through historic designation.
Rent control enforcement, a fee for no-cause non-renewal, right of first refusal, verifying landlord exemptions, negotiating with tenant unions, the $100M social housing bond, expanding P-STEP, affordable set-asides for smaller developments, escrow for repeat violators, banning non-owner-occupied short-term rentals, and where I stand on every plank of their full Tenants Agenda.
Closing the arts-funding gap, a structure for Creative Portland, the Live Nation buffer-zone lawsuit, supporting Wabanaki and New Mainer artists, and why this fight is personal for me.
Predictable permitting and a competitive cost of doing business, Inclusionary Zoning, public safety and substance use, a regional transit circulator modeled on Emeryville's Emery Go Round, and balancing property taxes with municipal spending.
Fifteen yes-or-no questions from Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety on background checks, extreme risk protection orders, secure storage, ghost guns, domestic abusers, assault weapons, and more — with the reasoning behind every answer.
Twelve different rooms, twelve different sets of questions, but the same platform underneath every answer. Nothing here was invented for a survey. It's the research I've already published, applied to whatever that room actually asked.