The Portland Mercury, in their endorsement: “Perhaps most impressive are Iannarone’s extensive policy proposals for Portland—detailed, data-informed documents informed by area experts and promising straightforward improvements to city programs. ...Iannarone’s proposals give us a peek at what kind of intention and research would go into her leadership decisions.“
Blueprint to the First 100 Days of Mayor Iannarone
- Place Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty in charge of the Portland Police Bureau
- Authorize the city to begin purchasing and rehabilitating hotels and motels into hundreds of units of permanently affordable housing
- Establish a community-based small business center to help small businesses navigate and recover from the COVID-19 crisis
- Initiate a “climate test,” to weigh the climate impacts of every policy Portland considers
- Sign the Mayors for a Guaranteed Income pledge
Housing For All
- Launch a five year strategic plan to end the Housing State of Emergency
- Support and protect a Tenant’s Bill of Rights and work to prevent evictions
- Accelerate building of truly-affordable housing with money we already have
- Lead a progressive revenue process to ensure the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share to address the crisis
Rethinking Public Safety
- Expand innovative programs like Portland Street Response
- Stop the displacement of marginalized community members
- Create neighborhood safety hubs to meet our needs in the next disaster
- Accelerate the work of ensuring safe streets for everyone
- Stop throwing good money after bad in the Portland Police Bureau
Economic Resilience
- Establish a Director of Small Business & Entrepreneurship in the Mayor's office
- Invest marijuana tax revenue in communities impacted by the War on Drugs
- Replace the Arts Tax with an equitable funding source that helps our arts community thrive
- Support our parks by bundling art and community safety funds to establish community safety hubs and childcare centers
Community Action to Mitigate COVID-19 Outbreak
- Adopt a coordinated disaster response team approach and establish an Office of Community Resilience
- Ensure rapid emergency support for small business owners, their employees, and other COVID-impacted low- and moderate-wage hourly workers
- Maintain a moratorium on residential and commercial evictions and on sweeps of houseless camps
- Ensure we meet the food, shelter and supply needs of quarantining Portlanders to maintain wellness
Disability Justice
- Make the City of Portland government universally accessible for all providing the disabled a chance to be engaged
- Enforce and expand housing rights not covered by the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Promote leadership of people with disabilities so the community can lead for themselves
- Ensure “nothing about us without us” is Portland’s policymaking philosophy
Community-Based Gun Violence Prevention
- Follow the leadership of impacted people, primarily youth of color, on Gun Violence Prevention (GVP)
- Ensure we do not target BIPOC communities through this work, avoiding repeating historical abuses and police profiling
- Create city standards on public building lockdowns to reduce alarmism and trauma while keeping schools and gathering places prepared
- Invest in youth peer intervention to empower young people to solve this problem for each other
Good Government, For the People
- Get big money out of politics to ensure honest, inclusive elections
- Create municipal broadband as a public utility and establish a public bank
- Invest in guaranteed income for the most vulnerable people in our city
- Engage every Portlander in a robust process to reform our outdated form of government
A Green New Deal for #OurPortland
- Declare a climate emergency, act with urgency, and center impacted communities
- Implement a climate action test for all new city policies and infrastructure
- Reach carbon neutrality by 2030, accelerating green energy goals
- Fight for universal access to fareless transit for all Portlanders
Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot
- Fund a pilot GBI program through philanthropy, private investment, and existing revenue reallocation
- Pilot a 12 month program to offer 125 Black Portland mothers $1,000 monthly for one year
- Voluntarily track outcomes with the intention of demonstrating the improved life outcomes we see in other cities
- Ensure recipients receive GBI as value added, not in place of other social services, benefit payments, or other means tested programs
- Utilize resources reclaimed from failed and wasteful programs and bureaus to create greater tangible benefits for GBI recipients
