Anderson approaches public safety through an institutional and preventative public health lens, cautioning against placing heavy enforcement burdens on East Austin without corresponding municipal safety investments. Rather than focusing strictly on carceral policing or shelter bed expansion, she advocates for using specialized county emergency assets, explicitly emphasizing that Austin EMS has developed outreach initiatives equipped to assist individuals experiencing mental health crises. Her emphasis centers on intercepting systemic issues and preventing displacement-driven crime before it begins.
Sources: Alexandria For Austin Campaign Platform, Austin Politics, Austin Free Press, The Daily Texan
Focuses on community-led, non-carceral deterrence by championing fully subsidized, free after-school athletic and extracurricular programs to insulate neighborhood youth from legal system exposure.
Sources: Steven Brown Campaign Platform
Goodwin centers her public safety vision explicitly on community violence intervention ecosystems rather than traditional state or federal gun mandates. As a veteran prosecutor, she advocates for front-end intervention strategies utilizing credible messengers who mediate local conflicts and connect at-risk individuals to social services. Her platform relies heavily on non-carceral diversion and legal deflection pipelines, seeking to completely redirect juveniles away from prison through comprehensive wraparound support.
Source: Amber Goodwin Campaign Website, The Trace
Approaches crime prevention through a public health and socialization lens, advocating for community activities and police-led athletic programs to engage young adults and reduce neighborhood violence.
Source: Mike Nahas Campaign Platform and The Austin Bulldog
Approaches community safety through holistic family stabilization, linking youth diversion and public space investments with workforce development to address root economic drivers of crime.
Sources: Misael for Austin Campaign Platform
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Source: CanvasRebel
As a local neighborhood advocate who has owned her home on Cometa Street for over a decade, Anderson strongly pushes for deeply affordable housing and robust anti-displacement mechanisms to protect long-term Black and Brown residents. To counter uncoordinated zoning and developer overreach, she proposes a standardized, tech-driven solution by building a community-wide, unified system that establishes a real housing dashboard across all shared municipal agencies. She demands that all public housing projects combine construction with dedicated on-site care, highlighting projects like Seabrook Square that blend affordable live-work options for creatives with supportive care from Integral Care. Furthermore, she remains highly cautious regarding commercial neighborhood rezoning, such as the 22nd Street expansion, pushing instead for strict restrictive covenants, conditional overlays, and expanded setbacks to protect historical neighborhood boundaries.
Sources: Alexandria For Austin Campaign Platform, Austin Free Press, Community Impact
Battles multi-generational displacement driven by rapid property tax increases and gentrification, insisting that all neighborhood land development and commercial rezoning requests be managed through a rigorous social justice lens to prevent re-traumatizing historically marginalized Black communities.
Sources: Community Impact, Austin Free Press, Steven Brown Campaign Platform
Goodwin heavily emphasizes fiscal preparedness to combat the regional housing and homelessness crisis, warning of an impending local emergency as federal American Rescue Plan Act funding sunsets at the end of 2026. She critiques recent municipal budget cuts to social services and demands multi-year budget line items dedicated to harm reduction, shelter support, and permanent supportive housing. Regarding regional urban growth and rezoning disputes, she shuns siloed decision-making, pushing instead for early, meaningful negotiations to balance neighborhood character with essential city-wide development.
Source: Amber Goodwin Campaign Website, Community Impact, Austin Free Press, Austin Politics
Identifies high market rent as the primary driver of homelessness, proposing a city-run insurance program to de-risk housing unhoused residents for private landlords alongside expanding extremely low-cost units below $400 per month.
Sources: Community Impact
Leverages extensive non-profit housing experience to advocate for permanent supportive housing, community land trusts, and homeownership paths like rent-to-own models, emphasizing the critical importance of council land-use decisions.
Sources: Misael for Austin Campaign Platform, Community Impact
Emphasizes her multi-generational East Austin heritage, prioritizing neighborhood compatibility, quality-of-life considerations like traffic and parking, and evaluating the long-term impacts of rezoning and land-use decisions on historic Black communities.
Source: CanvasRebel, Community Impact
Anderson directly integrates healthcare and psychiatric wellness into the municipal social safety net. She strongly critiques the baseline city framework for ignoring the medical and psychiatric needs of vulnerable populations, asserting that homelessness cannot be resolved by providing shelter beds alone and emphasizing that local governance must invest heavily in mental health and addiction care. This holistic approach mirrors her private sector work at Essential Fitness ATX, which focuses on integrating health for the brain, body, and breath.
Sources: Alexandria For Austin Campaign Platform, Austin Free Press
Targets systemic inequities in the regional healthcare safety net, drawing on his homeless coalition background to expose racial disparities in how local coordinated entry systems and case-management registries process marginalized residents.
Sources: Austin Free Press
Targets systemic inequities in the regional healthcare safety net, drawing on his homeless coalition background to expose racial disparities in how local coordinated entry systems and case-management registries process marginalized residents.
Source: Amber Goodwin Campaign Website, The Trace
Approaches public health by linking community wellness to core municipal infrastructure, prioritizing clinical mental health and addiction recovery services alongside housing solutions. Focuses on closing East Austin EMS response-time disparities, mitigating environmental health hazards through proactive sanitation and illegal dumping enforcement, and incentivizing grocery retail to eliminate persistent food deserts.
Source: Mike Nahas Campaign Platform
Focuses on environmental health and equity, advocating for the expansion of the urban tree canopy to eliminate heat deserts in East Austin and conducting city audits to protect natural springs.
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Anderson champions youth agency over tokenism. She argues that the city must actively involve young people in structural governance by creating youth advisory boards and including young residents in formal city planning decisions. To operationalize this, she proposes building a direct professional academic pipeline from high school and local Historically Black Colleges and Universities straight into municipal offices to engage students in dedicated city council internships.
Sources: The Daily Texan, Alexandria For Austin Campaign Platform, Emerge Texas – Emerge America
Demands the total removal of financial barriers to youth activities by providing completely free neighborhood sports and academic programming, utilizing local coaching networks to rebuild the communal anchors eroded by gentrification.
Sources: Steven Brown Campaign Platform
Demands the total removal of financial barriers to youth activities by providing completely free neighborhood sports and academic programming, utilizing local coaching networks to rebuild the communal anchors eroded by gentrification.
Source: Amber Goodwin Campaign Website, The Trace
Focuses on physical recreation and community sports mentorship as primary developmental tools, encouraging local residents to fill coaching vacancies in neighborhood parks like Colony Park.
Reinvests in public spaces like the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex and Rosewood neighborhood centers to provide secure, positive developmental hubs for district youth.
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Views climate justice and severe weather survival as core municipal responsibilities, advocating for legally binding environmental protections around sensitive ecological zones like the Blackland Prairie and Colony Park. Opposes unvetted commercial upzoning that increases impervious cover without ecological reviews, pushing for expanded conservation easements, prescribed burns, native landscaping, and strict limits on resource-heavy industrial developments to protect East Austin’s ecology.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and Austin Free Press. & candidate platform
Anchors climate and severe weather resilience in racial and environmental justice, invoking the upcoming centennial of Austin’s 1928 Master Plan to demand municipal climate investments reverse historical eastside pollution. Opposes approving fossil fuel peaker plants and fast-tracking corporate developments that worsen runoff, while championing upfront residential grants for home weatherization, rooftop solar, and battery storage to insulate working-class families from storm-driven displacement.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and Austin Free Press
Frames environmental resilience through restorative justice, emphasizing that municipal land-use planning must dismantle cumulative industrial pollution burdens placed on East Austin. Strongly opposes non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) on large commercial development agreements like Dog’s Head, demanding mandatory environmental reviews, air quality monitoring along transit corridors, and an accelerated transition away from the coal-fired Fayette Power Project paired with upfront solar subsidies for low-income households.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and Austin Free Press
Platform details on municipal energy transition, utility oversight, and severe weather infrastructure remain limited; public stances focus primarily on neighborhood-level green spaces, park maintenance, and reducing city permitting barriers for local urban agriculture and community gardens.
Sources: Austin City Clerk Ballot Filings and Candidate Campaign Materials.
Intersects climate resilience with ecological restoration, pushing to expand urban tree canopy coverage to eliminate heat islands across East Austin. Advocates for comprehensive city audits to protect natural springs, aggressive watershed protections, and strict community benefit agreements on industrial facilities that draw heavily on Austin’s municipal power and water resources.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and Austin Free Press
Connects environmental protection with preserving historic Blackland neighborhood stability, arguing that aggressive citywide upzoning must not degrade permeable green space or overburden legacy stormwater drainage systems. Demands balanced zoning compatibility that preserves tree canopies and soil absorption to mitigate localized flooding along residential corridors.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog
Anderson ties workforce development directly to economic equity and the preservation of historic cultural corridors. She aims to reconstruct the economic mobility patterns of District 1 by leveraging city contracts, proposing the establishment of local hire mandates for major contract projects to protect working-class families. Additionally, she supports providing structural economic incubation for minority entrepreneurs,虚拟 advocating for targeted funding and grant incubators for small Black and Latino businesses to build generational wealth along major transit and development corridors like 11th Street, 12th Street, and Colony Park.
Sources: Alexandria For Austin Campaign Platform, Austin Politics, Austin Free Press
Connects local employment pathways to long-term economic mobility, supporting localized workforce pipelines that allow historic East Austin families to secure higher-wage jobs and successfully preserve their multi-generational assets.
Connects local employment pathways to long-term economic mobility, supporting localized workforce pipelines that allow historic East Austin families to secure higher-wage jobs and successfully preserve their multi-generational assets.
Source: Amber Goodwin Campaign Website, The Trace
Supports urban agriculture and gig-economy micro-entrepreneurs by advocating for reduced municipal friction and expanded access to local sales outlets like farmer’s markets.
Source: Mike Nahas Campaign Platform
Partners with local foundations and community organizations to build integrated workforce training programs, helping unhoused and low-income residents secure stable, living-wage employment.
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Relying on her decade of experience organizing within the Austin Neighborhoods Council and leading the Martin Luther King Neighborhood Association, Anderson’s model of representation requires meeting people precisely where they are. She believes true representation means equipping grassroots communities with active civic data, which leads directly to empowerment and gives residents the agency to speak effectively about what they want in their neighborhoods. When handling tense local issues like rezoning, she emphasizes that the city must remain deeply responsive to community sentiment, committing to a framework of holding neighborhood listening spaces before rendering decisions.
Sources: Alexandria For Austin Campaign Platform, Austin Politics, Austin Free Press,Community Impact
Rejects top-down, paternalistic governance by promising to carry neighborhood mandates straight to City Hall unedited, while opting for a mobile, highly accessible presence in the streets over a stationary satellite office.
Sources: Community Impact, Austin Reform
Rejects top-down, paternalistic governance by promising to carry neighborhood mandates straight to City Hall unedited, while opting for a mobile, highly accessible presence in the streets over a stationary satellite office.
Sources: Amber Goodwin Campaign Website, Community Impact, The Trace, Austin Free Press
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Commits to quarterly town halls, accessible coffee chats across the broad district, and regular walk-in constituent office hours at City Hall to ensure continuous community dialogue.
Source: Misael for Austin Campaign Platform, Community Impact
Centers representation on her deep family roots in the Blackland neighborhood, advocating for municipal planning commission processes that balance community perspectives with long-term neighborhood stability.
Source: CanvasRebel, Community Impact
Rejects verbal promises in favor of binding contractual tools like conditional overlays and transparent, real-time tracking dashboards across overlapping public agencies.
Sources: Austin Free Press
Demands strict mandatory compliance metrics and public pressure for housing developers to guarantee that municipal bond-funded projects are completed in a timely manner to protect public tax investments.
Demands strict mandatory compliance metrics and public pressure for housing developers to guarantee that municipal bond-funded projects are completed in a timely manner to protect public tax investments.
Sources: Amber Goodwin Campaign Website, The Trace, Austin Free Press
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Source: Mike Nahas Campaign Platform
Focuses on policy execution rooted in land-use expertise and community coalitions, calling for real-time housing dashboards and transparent metrics on city bed capacity and project timelines.
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
The views and opinions of the candidates do not reflect the views or opinions of the Austin Area Urban League or any of its auxiliary groups.