OTHER ISSUES

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Build an unarmed crisis response and de-escalation team 

• Create an accountability and transparency mechanism for the YPD     

• Invest in community-driven solutions that support wellbeing

• Resource harm reduction initiatives, diversion and reentry programs

• Create public safety policy that is trauma-informed
   

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

• Make Ypsilanti an abortion rights sanctuary

• Fund access to contraceptives, STI checks, prenatal and pregnancy care, domestic violence support, and childcare

 

RACIAL JUSTICE

• Advocate for national and state Reparations program to repay debts owed to Black and Indigenous people

• Create Reparations Commission 

• Incentivize and resource Black-owned businesses

• Work with Indigenous elders and communities to explore Landback opportunities

• Challenge statewide affirmative action ban

 

VOTING RIGHTS and DEMOCRACY

• End the partisan election system

• Broaden decision-making power by putting Ypsi’s most important issues to city-wide vote

• Resource initiatives to re-enfranchise marginalized groups

• Amend the city charter to end rampant cronyism

 

LGBTQIA+ / QUEER LIBERATION

• Lend city-owned space for queer and trans mutual aid groups, mental health outreach, crisis support

• Create and enforce housing, workplace protections for queer and trans residents

• Resource initiatives that support Black and brown LGBTQA+ residents

 

DISABILITY JUSTICE and ACCESSIBILITY

• Enact ordinance for universal design and visitability based on city demographics

• Advocate for more Ypsi representation on the AAATA board

• Create forum for discussing COVID response

• Fight for rent control for fixed-income residents

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IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

• Make Ypsilanti a sanctuary city

• Sever all ties between the YPD, courts, probation and parole office, and ICE

• Ramp up labor protections for immigrants

• City Hall more accessible to ESL/non-English speaking residents
   

WORKERS’ RIGHTS

• Resource worker unions

• Challenge the 2012 Snyder-era statewide anti-labor laws 

• Support service worker unionization

• Create labor dispute mechanism 

• Offer parking passes for service workers in Ypsi

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE and INFRASTRUCTURE

• Include the interests of marginalized residents and the natural world in development decisions

• Municipalize the energy grid

• Incentivize tree and native species planting, protect existing habitats

• Invest in public transit, bikeability and walkability, divest from car infrastructure

 

YOUTH

• Build a recreation center and create more public commons

• Resource civic groups and sports

• Improve parks and playgrounds, install permanent bathrooms in Riverside Park

• Challenge School of Choice, support restorative justice programs at YCS

 

ELDERS

• Assist programs that support aging-in-place, address senior isolation, and connect elders to their community

• Fight for rent control for fixed-income adults

 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Enact commercial vacancy tax and fight for commercial rent control

• Re-evaluate the DDA, audit resources

• Resource Ypsi’s creative community