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Economic Justice
Economic Justice
My biggest priority is to stop the government from unjustly taking money from our community and other low-income people across Maryland. In particular, I'm going to end the tax sale, which drains millions of dollars from vulnerable people in West Baltimore each year. I'm also going to repeal the inheritance tax, eliminate ground rent and reform probate.
It took well over a year for my client to inherit her home due to so many unnecessary laws.
Vacant Houses
Vacant Houses
Baltimore has more than 10,000 vacant houses, concentrated in West Baltimore and other disinvested areas. They cost the city $200 million per year in lost tax revenue and direct costs. Each one is a threat to health and safety. We need to stop homes from becoming vacant and intervene sooner when they are vacant.
A vacant house at the end of my block that caught fire a few years ago.
Safety
Safety
Eveyone should feel safe in their neighborhood. We need to invest in police training and violence prevention. But we need to address the deeper issues that lead to crime. Education and economic well-being are proven to be highly connected with lower crime rates. We need to adequately fund our schools and support our teachers, students and parents. And, we need to disrupt systems of economic injustice, such as the tax sale, which have been destabilizing West Baltimore for generations.
Two lifelong Baltimoreans.
Education
Education
I was a math teacher in the city in an under-resourced and underperforming school. The educational outcomes were very poor. And it wasn’t really the student’s fault, or the teacher’s fault or the parent’s fault. The system itself crumbles under the weight it’s given to bear. We need to support our schools more, including more funding.
A picture of my classroom, my first year teaching.
Voting
Voting
We need to reform our voting system so that every eligible person can vote, more people vote, and every vote actually matters.
Our system is designed to insulate politicians, not to let the people choose their leaders.
Between gerrymandering and the closed primary, often the only votes that matter are the primary voters in the majority party in that district, leaving almost half of voters without any meaningful right to vote.
Voting is a fundamental right. The majority does not get to decide whether that right exists or whether to respect it.
Only a bare majority of voters in Maryland are registered as Democrats.
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