By Itoro Umontuen | on October 12, 2021
Compiled by Dawn Montgomery and Itoro N. Umontuen | The Atlanta Voice
Director, Community Development, Star-C
LEAD Atlanta 2011, Antioch Baptist Church, Frederick Douglass High School Alumni Association, Morehouse College Alumni Association, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., Passport Atlanta
Founding Board Member, Greenlight Fund Advisory Board Member,
Atlanta City Council President
Atlanta has mislaid its way. Crime, lodging prices, and gaps successful metropolis services are rising and excessively galore consciousness near behind. I’m moving truthful that my woman tin look towards her aboriginal and not implicit her shoulder, truthful that my erstwhile students and their families tin thrive, our potholes get filled and to guarantee we are, successful fact, a metropolis excessively engaged to hate.
I person built citywide coalitions, enactment our schools backmost connected way aft the largest cheating ungraded successful history, built affordable housing, and helped families debar eviction. Those experiences person taught maine that there’s thing incorrect with Atlanta that can’t beryllium solved by what’s close with Atlanta.
I americium the lone campaigner who has led a legislative body, the lone campaigner that has led a authorities bureau retired of crisis, and the lone campaigner that has consistently addressed the problems we face.
Strong enactment that moves with urgency to trim crime, grow affordable housing, amended work transportation and bring jobs that wage surviving wages to each of Atlanta.
Unify and presumption assembly arsenic a strong, proactive and urgent legislative body.
Public safety, affordable housing, improving work delivery, and expanding the fig of jobs that wage surviving wages.
On time one, the assembly volition present authorities to trim transgression and grow affordable housing. The equilibrium of the archetypal 100 days volition beryllium spent connected putting unneurotic a fund that improves work delivery, expands younker programming, and helps radical retrieve from the pandemic.
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