How would you advocate for boosting the city’s affordable housing stock? Housing experts have said Atlanta is in dire need of residential units that are affordable for households earning 50 percent of the area median income or less. How do we prevent homelessness proactively (by providing services to prevent eviction), how do we prevent repeat offenders from returning (by providing wraparound services for re-entry)? The City of Atlanta has been reactive for too long and it is time to be proactive.ģ. What policy issues do you think are being overshadowed that deserve more of the spotlight?Īddressing the root causes driving crime like generational poverty, a lack of funding in our school system, and the prevention of the problems most complex that we have been dealing with for decades reactively. Crime has become the hottest topic of the Atlanta mayor’s race. Addressing generational poverty, I will create a $250 million Workforce Development Bond to put people back to work and move them into the middle class.Ģ.
I will work to expand PAD and create a community mitigation center to deal with disputes. I will bring community policing back to our communities to form a relationship with residents. As mayor, I will create the Department of Public Safety and Wellness to address quality-of-life issues and remove this unnecessary burden from officers untrained to deal with mental health and the unhoused. We cannot arrest ourselves out of the current circumstance.
Officers must be held accountable, just as citizens are. At a time when police-citizen relations are especially strained, how would you fight crime in Atlanta while also combating police brutality and staying conscious of many marginalized people’s wariness of law enforcement?
Tap each candidate name to go directly to their responsesġ. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Read below to learn about the folks who think they’ve got what it takes to navigate the ongoing pandemic, wrangle the forces of gentrification, and cut down on crime at a pivotal moment for the city. (A few even abided by our request to keep responses under 100 words for each answer.) Thirteen candidates responded to our questions.
Clockwise: Kasim Reed, Andre Dickens, Felicia Moore, Sharon Gay, Antonio BrownĪs Atlantans cast early ballots to pick the next wave of municipal leadership, mailboxes are sardine-stuffed with political flyers, cellphones are lighting up with 11th-hour appeals for campaign contributions, and the city’s policy wonks are abuzz over who will be elected in November (or, at least, who will make the runoff).įourteen candidates qualified for Atlanta’s mayoral race, so Atlanta magazine emailed the same set of questions to each candidate to help voters understand where they stand on crime, affordability, the pandemic, and other pressing issues.
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