As a father of two BPS kids, I am running for City Council to make Boston a place where all our kids and our young people want to stay to raise their own families.

To do that, we need to make housing more affordable across Boston. We can do that by:

• Passing rent stabilization to cap year to year rental increases to allow people to stay in their housing and spend a lower percentage of their income on rent.

• Create clear, objective standards in zoning, and create citywide standards instead of the jigsaw puzzle of regulations we currently have to increase housing production and ensure new developments match communities’ needs and character.

• Expand the city housing voucher program to assist with rental payments, which has the added benefit of being available to mixed immigration status families. 

I am worried for our kids’ future with the impacts of climate change worsening every year. We can do more, such as:

• Expand the Community Choice Electricity Program, which makes clean energy cheaper than fossil fuels.

• Enforce BERDO, which seeks to eliminate use of fossil fuels in our largest office buildings, with 70% of emissions coming from just 4% of buildings in Boston. 

• Plants trees across the city to prevent heat islands in our most vulnerable neighborhoods. 

We also need a public transportation system that we can count on. I will fight for this by:

• Advocating to expand the Green line to Hyde Square and extending the Orange line from Forest Hills to West Roxbury.

• Support fare free transit and expanding on free bus pilot programs.

• Expand bus/bike lanes across the city to make public transit more timely and reliable.