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Q&A with Denver City Council District 8 candidate Shontel Lewis

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageShontel LewisPROFESSIONSmall Business OwneerEDUCATIONBachelors in CommunicationEXPERIENCEElected to RTD Board as Director of District B in 2018Vice President — Colorado Coalition for the HomelessWEBSITE • FACEBOOK • TWITTERBriefly describe the single most urgent issue facing the city of Denver and how it should be addressed.It does other issues a disservice to say they are less urgent, particularly because the issues are interconnected, and housing is the most common issue voters are concerned about. Working families can’t afford to live here, and the city has left too many behind. I believe the city should expand its own stock of affordable housing, building on mixed-income social housing on land it owns. We also need land use reform, encouraging denser housing types, renter protections — the needs are many, and we will need all the tools the city can find.What should Denver leaders do to address the city’...

Q&A with Denver City Council District 10 candidate Shannon Hoffman

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageShannon HoffmanPROFESSIONNonprofit administrationEDUCATIONBachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and Master’s of Education from Vanderbilt UniversityEXPERIENCEShannon Hoffman is a Cap Hill renter and educator who today project-manages an affordable housing development. She’s a seasoned community organizer for racial, housing, and climate justice in Denver.WEBSITE • FACEBOOK • TWITTERBriefly describe the single most urgent issue facing the city of Denver and how it should be addressed.As a renter with deep ties to my neighbors (housed and unhoused), my community and I are living Denver’s housing crisis each day. Social housing is one ambitious model to solve it. With the city, not a private company, as a developer, profits can fund more housing. Rent tiered by income means that those paying more offset lower rent for lower-income tenants. Toronto and Helsinki have successfully implemented social housing....

Q&A with Denver City Council District 9 candidate Candi CdeBaca

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageIncumbentCandi CdeBacaPROFESSIONSocial WorkerEDUCATIONMSWEXPERIENCECandi is the D9 incumbent. She is a social worker, community organizer and policy expert who has worked at all three levels of government creating, analyzing, evaluating, and implementing policy.WEBSITE • FACEBOOK • TWITTERBriefly describe the single most urgent issue facing the city of Denver and how it should be addressed.Housing affordability. Denver needs to mandate more affordable housing from private development or higher linkage fees. There need to be vacancy taxes, luxury sales taxes, flipping taxes and short-term rental fees sourcing a housing fund. First right of refusal for the city would allow the city to increase land stock to begin implementing social housing and Denver needs local control over rent stabilization.What should Denver leaders do to address the city’s lack of affordable housing?Amend the Expanding Housing Affordability p...

Q&A with Denver City Council District 8 candidate Christian Steward

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageChristian StewardPROFESSIONCommunity ConnectorEDUCATIONBachelor’s degree in BiologyEXPERIENCEMy professional and professional life is set through the lens of community advocacy. I am co-chair of Dr. King Jr Marade, I am Community Connector with Department of Transportation and InfrastructureWEBSITE • FACEBOOKBriefly describe the single most urgent issue facing the city of Denver and how it should be addressed.The most urgent issue facing the City of Denver is the cost of housing. There are a few factors to include: Creating and training a workforce for the jobs of the future that pay wages that create generational wealth for those vulnerable to displacement, recruiting and retaining city employees that can streamline city systems and processes, creating opportunities zones that prioritize transportation centers to fast track building contracts and building permits. Work with state legislators to create property t...

Q&A with Denver City Council District 10 candidate Chris Hinds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageIncumbentChris HindsPROFESSIONCouncilmemberEDUCATIONComputer Science, MBA in FinanceEXPERIENCECurrent Denver City Councilmember for District 10, former software engineer, and disability advocateWEBSITE • FACEBOOK • TWITTERBriefly describe the single most urgent issue facing the city of Denver and how it should be addressed.Denver has a housing crisis. The secret’s out: Denver is an amazing place to live. With all those moving to our city, and with the implosion of our housing construction in 2008, we are far behind in building new homes. Fortunately, we’re working on missing middle density citywide and larger buildings in the city center where it makes sense.What should Denver leaders do to address the city’s lack of affordable housing?America tried building housing projects, and it was a failure. Instead of building additional housing projects, we strive to create an economically diverse community. A...

Q&A with Denver City Council District 11 candidate Stacie Gilmore

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageIncumbentStacie GilmorePROFESSIONCity Councilwoman District 11EDUCATIONBS Zoology / Chemistry; MA Nonprofit ManagementEXPERIENCEI have been honored to serve as Councilwoman since July 2015. Served in leadership roles as Council President 2020-2022; President Pro Tem 2018-2020.WEBSITE • FACEBOOK • TWITTERBriefly describe the single most urgent issue facing the city of Denver and how it should be addressed.In order for our city to thrive people must feel safe and supported. We must through proactive and community-based responses address the violence we are seeing within our city. This can be addressed through a variety of ways that both include law enforcement and alternative responses that are implemented and should be explored to replace uniformed officers in many interactions that they currently have with the public.What should Denver leaders do to address the city’s lack of affordable housing?Denver leaders mus...

Q&A with Denver City Council District 9 candidate Darrell Watson

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageDarrell WatsonPROFESSIONSmall business ownerEDUCATIONBachelor’s of Arts in Communications, University of Colorado at DenverEXPERIENCEChair of Housing Advisory board passed 1st affordable housing mandate policy in the state. Chair of the Park Trust invested 250K in D9.WEBSITE • FACEBOOKBriefly describe the single most urgent issue facing the city of Denver and how it should be addressed.We are facing a housing crisis: housing is too expensive, it’s not located where people want to live, and there isn’t enough of it. One approach I will take is to elevate the housing crisis as a regional issue: first, passing affordable housing mandates in each municipality in Denver Regional Council of Governments; second, working regionally to ensure each municipality meets Prop 123 requirements; and third, coordinating regionally for state and federal dollars to increase access to affordable housing. My collaborative approach wi...

Massive sinkhole threatens homes in Camarillo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

A massive sinkhole is threatening a pair of homes in a Camarillo neighborhood on Friday.The 30-foot-by-30-foot active sinkhole in the 700 block of Trueno Avenue was reported by the Ventura County Fire Department at about 11:15 a.m.The hole opened up in a backyard between a pair of homes that face Grada Avenue, threatening the stability of all residences in the immediate area, officials said. In an update, the Fire Department said 16 people were evacuated. The sinkhole was likely the product of continuous heavy rainfall, resulting in a troubling amount of runoff from flooding.“It’s definitely different than anything that we’ve ever seen before," said Joey Martin, a Ventura County resident. "These are like once-in-a-generation-type of storms that we’ve been seeing.”Officials shared footage showing muddy runoff that rushed down the hillside before compromising a storm drain that ultimately opened up the sinkhole.“Runoff, or anytime you encounter moving water, it’s always dangerous," ex...

School Workers Move Closer To A Strike, Give LAUSD 10-Day Notice

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) received a 10-day notice from school workers, Wednesday, saying they intend to end their current contract and move toward a strike.The notice comes after 96% of the nearly 30,000 school employees represented by Service Employees International United, Local 99 (SEIU-99), voted to move forward with a strike if both sides could not reach a contract agreement.“Los Angeles Unified is disappointed that SEIU is walking away from negotiations with so much on the table,” LAUSD said in a statement. “We want to do right by our employees, which is why Superintendent [Albert] Carvalho made one of the strongest offers ever proposed by a Los Angeles Unified Superintendent, offering historic compensation increases and benefits aligned with SEIU’s requests.”The district said the proposed contract included a more than 15% ongoing wage increase, a 9% retention bonus, equity adjustments for those earning fewer than $30 per ho...

Man arrested on suspicion of attacking SamTrans bus drivers, carjacking

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

PALO ALTO — A 26-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon in Palo Alto on suspicion of spitting in the face of one bus driver and wrapping his arms around another before running from officers and trying to carjack a woman, police said.Officers were called to Quarry and Arboretum roads just before 5 p.m. for a report of a disturbance on a SamTrans bus, the Palo Alto Police Department said in a statement. They arrived to see a man running into a retirement community at 620 Sand Hill Road.An officer detained the man, who appeared to be under the influence of drugs and handed over a pipe, while others interviewed the drivers at the first scene, police said.One of the drivers, a woman in her 30s, told officers the man had forced open the doors of her out-of-service bus. She ordered him to leave multiple times before he did. The woman then got off the bus to flag down another SamTrans driver for help.“The suspect then spat in the face of the female driver,” police said, “and when the ...