Making St. Louis Home

The Problem:

Schools are closing, rents are rising, and violence is increasing. We can make St. Louis a safe and inspiring place to live, work, and thrive, but we need to invest in public schools, affordable housing, accessible transit, health equity, universal childcare, environmental justice, and so much more.

 
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+ Housing as a Human Right

  • Rent Relief: provide rent relief to tenants unable to make rent payments amidst the dire affordable housing crisis in our city.
  • Pass a Tenant Bill of Rights to expand protections for poor and working-class renters.
  • Increased funding for our region’s continuum of care, homeless services, and temporary shelters for the unhoused to eliminate homelessness.
  • Fully fund the Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF).
  • Build community wealth and ownership through community land trusts, utilizing vacant lots currently owned by the Land Reutilization Authority (LRA).
  • Pass and implement an Unhoused Bill of Rights to restore and expand upon rights of unhoused people living in St. Louis City.
  • Adopt a city direct cash payment program for unhoused residents in order to alleviate homelessness.
  • Expand and fully fund the Universal Basic Income program.
 
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+ Building Sustainable Communities

  • Increase air pollution monitoring, ensuring that all 29 monitors in the City are active and monitoring all necessary pollutants.
  • Increase accountability and transparency of the City’s waste management services through publicly-accessible routine evaluations, and conduct a citywide dumpster survey to ensure equitable placement and reduce harmful dumping.
  • Expand funding, eligibility, and education/outreach for the Low Income Weatherization Assistance Program (LIWAP) to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs for low-income residents.
  • Pass local legislation mandating lead testing in school water systems with specific standards as to where, when, and how testing will be conducted.
  • Designate mold as a substandard condition within the Building or Health and Safety Codes and require disclosure of mold when a building is sold or rented.
  • Prioritize and provide incentives for green jobs as part of job creation and economic development policies.
 
 
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+ Invest in Public Infrastructure

  • Expand all forms of public multi-modal transportation in St. Louis that prioritize pedestrian safety, including North-South Metrolink and/or Bus Rapid Transit lines, paired with investments in affordable housing, greenways, community centers, free public wi-fi and more.
  • Increase and improve broadband access across the city.
  • Create and sustainably fund a reparations plan to address the multigenerational harms of racial and economic exclusion, redlining, mass Black removal, and state violence that fueled divestment, particularly in North St. Louis City.
 
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+ Health and Healthcare

  • Increase funding and support to provide more community health workers and community health centers, particularly in underserved Black neighborhoods.
  • Provide and support policies that encourage comprehensive LGBTQ healthcare.
  • Fund the St. Louis City Department of Health to provide free medical services, including STI/HIV/COVID testing and vaccinations, in accessible ways that prioritize vulnerable communities.
  • Support efforts to establish the state constitutional right to safe abortion care, and expand access to reproductive healthcare.

 

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