Matt Kорас

Nonpartisan

Address flooding through green infrastructure like rain gardens and bioswales to address stormwater runoff from development.

Accelerate our city’s transition to renewable energy and energy efficiency as laid out in the Carbon Neutrality and Renewable Energy Action Plan, including more solar arrays on city buildings and growing our participation in the Green Source Advantage program.

Fight displacement through programs that provide home repairs, low-income homeowner support, energy efficiency, eviction diversion, and legal aid to fight corporate advantage.

Develop an economic strategy that supports our local businesses and promotes environmental sustainability, while diversifying our tax base to take tax pressure off low-income and fixed-income homeowners.

Produce more affordable units and missing middle housing through local revolving construction loan programs, streamlined permitting for pre-approved affordable designs, and a revised Unified Development Ordinance.

Welcome our immigrant and LGBTQ neighbors and protect them from outside attacks.

Draw from the Triangle Resilience Partnership research to prioritize low-income areas that suffer most from heat and flooding.

Protect and promote Durham’s arts and our cultural heritage as key lever of local economic development, using the new Durham Cultural Roadmap (in development) as a guide.

Identify public land and broker public-private partnerships to build more long-term affordable units.

Tackle the heat island effect in low-income, marginalized neighborhoods through an expanded native tree canopy and green space.

Address root causes of violence, like economic and housing insecurity and racial injustice.

Maintain free bus service and expand local and regional transit to conveniently and affordably connect people from where they live to where they work and play.