Brandy Brooks - Part I
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You'll learn about:
- Community activism, organizing and non-profit work
- Focus on food and land-us / development as a way to achieve social justice
Brandy’s Priorities:
- Affordable Housing
- Transportation
- The Economy
- Food Systems
Other Items:
- Affordable Housing Crisis
- Living Wage (and how $15 is not enough)
- Tipped workers and a living wage
- Reorganizing the economic system to be more fair for people and businesses.
- Cooperatives (Consumer, Business, Residential, Financial, etc.) and how they equalize economic power
- Affordable commercial space
- Effective enforcement of earned sick leave and equal pay ordinances
- On the convergence of many factors resulting in many candidates running for office in Montgomery County.
- How local elections have been ignored and why that is a bad idea.
- The solutions to local problems are in our communities.
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