Approaches public safety through a community stabilization lens, advocating for equitable investments in social safety nets and non-carceral diversion while addressing localized quality-of-life concerns through targeted municipal safety and noise enforcement.
Sources: Austin American-Statesman District 3 Candidate Guide and the KXAN Austin City Council Candidate Overview.
Approaches public safety through immigrant protection, community stability, and anti-violence systems, drawing on her lived experience with gender-based discrimination to advocate for robust legal safety nets, immigrant defense, and neighborhood trust over purely punitive enforcement measures.
Sources: Neha for Austin City Council D3, Austin Free Press Candidate Forum Coverage, The Austin Chronicle City Council Overview, and The Austin Bulldog District 3 Reporting
Approaches public safety through immigrant defense and social intervention, opposing local law enforcement cooperation with ICE while advocating for mental health crisis diversion.
Sources: Community Impact
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Pushes to fully staff, competitively pay, and equip the Austin Police Department and fire services to address citywide officer shortages. Demands judicial accountability and prosecution of repeat offenders cycling through the court system, while prioritizing safety upgrades and protection for CapMetro transit operators and bus riders.
Sources: Brock Skinner Campaign Platform and Real Texas Radio Candidate Interview
Balances pro-housing growth with strict anti-displacement protections; championed amendments to the HOME initiative to lower building costs and improve capital access for legacy homeowners, while demanding housing density be distributed citywide rather than concentrated in East and South Austin.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and the Austin Monitor
Proposes amending HOME legislation to enforce mandatory below-market units and penalize unfulfilled affordability metrics, while reserving surplus city-owned land for Community Land Trusts (CLTs), expanding CLT property tax exemptions, and holding CapMetro accountable to Transit Plan 2035 bus frequency and light rail delivery.
Sources: Neha for Austin City Council D3, Austin Free Press Candidate Forum Coverage, The Austin Chronicle City Council Overview, and The Austin Bulldog District 3 Reporting
Fights speculative upzoning, spot rezonings, and VMU overlays that drive tax burdens on legacy Mexican-American homeowners, pushing for property tax caps and dedicated affordable housing districts.
Sources: Community Impact and Austin Monitor
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Advocates for lowering property tax burdens on working families by enforcing fiscal constraint in the city budget and opposing continuous tax hikes. Demands that commercial and residential growth “pays its own way” by requiring developers to fund necessary infrastructure and services before strain hits surrounding neighborhoods.
Sources: Brock Skinner Campaign Platform and Real Texas Radio Candidate Interview.
Prioritizes healthcare accessibility and health equity, focusing on the systemic links between youth aging out of foster care and housing instability while advocating for harm reduction and the preservation of municipal social safety net funding.
Sources: Austin American-Statesman and Austin Monitor.
Prioritizes dignity for the unhoused and environmental health equity across Southeast Austin, fighting health disparities in industrial corridors and rejecting regressive utility fee hikes on working families to repair infrastructure while demanding commercial polluters and high-volume corporate users pay their fair share.
Sources: Neha for Austin City Council D3, Austin Free Press Candidate Forum Coverage, The Austin Chronicle City Council Overview, and The Austin Bulldog District 3 Reporting
Focuses on addressing healthcare access gaps and eliminating food deserts in Southeast Austin, supporting expanded Central Health partnerships to deliver localized medical and mental health care.
Sources: Community Impact
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Backs consistent enforcement of the public camping ban paired with active social outreach under a “compassion with boundaries” model. Focuses on maintaining clean, safe public amenities like libraries and transit stops, while insisting mental healthcare and homelessness programs align with Travis County’s statutory duties rather than unchecked contract renewals.
Sources: Brock Skinner Campaign Platform and Real Texas Radio Candidate Interview.
Serves as a leading council champion for Austin ISD Parent Support Specialists to strengthen family-school engagement, while advancing his “Affordable Austin” platform priority of expanding universal access to free Pre-K.
Sources: Austin Monitor and The Austin Bulldog.
Focuses on digital equity and broadband access to bridge the digital divide for students in District 3, alongside lowering holistic family living expenses—including childcare and transit—to retain working families and children in Austin public schools.
Sources: Neha for Austin City Council D3, Austin Free Press Candidate Forum Coverage, The Austin Chronicle City Council Overview, and The Austin Bulldog District 3 Reporting
Leveraged grassroots coalitions to establish the 10-1 single-member council district system to protect geographic and educational equity; broader K-12 policy details remain limited.
Sources: The Texas Tribune
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Prioritizes safe, reliable public transit routes and clean civic facilities so children and families can safely navigate to schools and public libraries. Focuses on overall household affordability and property tax containment to keep working families with school-age children enrolled in local neighborhood schools.
Sources: Brock Skinner Campaign Platform and Real Texas Radio Candidate Interview.
Ties environmental justice directly to anti-displacement, advocating for proactive flood mitigation guarantees and infrastructure investments in vulnerable Southeast Austin drainage basins. Acknowledged the need to repeal City Council’s previous authorization for natural gas peaker power plants to realign with the Austin Climate Equity Plan, and opposes shifting utility leak repair costs onto working families through regressive rate hikes.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog, Austin Free Press, and Austin American-Statesman Platform Review
Leverages federal regulatory policy experience in grid modernization to push for local energy and water security. Strongly opposes proposed Austin Water fee hikes for leaky pipe repairs, demanding high-volume commercial users pay their fair share, while advocating for Land Development Code amendments requiring Conditional Use Permits and waterway buffer reviews for data centers.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and Austin Free Press
Prioritizes localized flood mitigation infrastructure and drainage maintenance along flood-prone corridors like Onion Creek and Montopolis. Fights speculative spot rezonings that expand impervious cover, demanding that Austin Energy and Austin Water prioritize infrastructure upgrades and utility bill relief for legacy Mexican-American homeowners before funding large industrial subsidies.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and Austin City Clerk Ballot Filings
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Centers environmental resilience on core utility reliability, arguing that severe weather survival should not depend on a resident’s zip code. Prioritizes neighborhood tree shade, aggressive flood control upgrades, and electric grid hardening to ensure utilities withstand extreme freezes and heat waves without imposing new tax or fee burdens on working families.
Sources: The Austin Bulldog and Brock Skinner Campaign Platform
Protects micro-entrepreneurs and working-class jobs, driving municipal reforms that eliminated burdensome inspection towing mandates for local food trucks while supporting living-wage adjustments for non-sworn city staff.
Sources: Austin Monitor.
Protects legacy small businesses and creative micro-enterprises along corridors like Riverside, Montopolis, and St. Elmo, while leveraging tech and policy experience to build workforce training pipelines and eliminate corporate tax incentives that lack binding community benefit and local living-wage agreements.
Sources: Neha for Austin City Council D3, Austin Free Press Candidate Forum Coverage, The Austin Chronicle City Council Overview, and The Austin Bulldog District 3 Reporting
Demands strict enforcement of community benefit standards and local living-wage rules on public contracts and subsidies, protecting working-class municipal and trade laborers.
Sources: Community Impact
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Leverages private-sector business development experience to protect legacy small businesses, taquerias, record shops, and local medical clinics along District 3 commercial corridors from displacement. Pushes for a responsive city administration that eliminates bureaucratic delays and reduces operating friction for local entrepreneurs.
Sources: Brock Skinner Campaign Platform and The Austin Chronicle Candidate Directory.
Reframes constituent representation through consistent grassroots accessibility, holding 15–20 monthly one-on-one constituent coffee chats, regular neighborhood block walks, and bi-weekly case call-back blocks to proactively identify community issues before they escalate.
Sources: Austin Monitor
Mandates transparent, bottom-up governance by requiring 25-day multilingual community notice periods and public hearings on major development or environmental proposals, while restoring council zoning oversight rather than delegating major land-use decisions to unelected city staff.
Sources: Neha for Austin City Council D3, Austin Free Press Candidate Forum Coverage, The Austin Chronicle City Council Overview, and The Austin Bulldog District 3 Reporting
Centers representation on grassroots neighborhood advocacy via El Concilio, pledging monthly in-person neighborhood listening sessions and direct constituent responsiveness.
Sources: Community Impact and Austin Monitor
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Centers representation on accessible, constituent-focused governance that prioritizes basic municipal services—such as street maintenance, reliable bus routes, and public safety—over ideological council initiatives. Rejects top-down city hall policies that overlook core neighborhood quality-of-life needs.
Sources: Brock Skinner Campaign Platform and Real Texas Radio Candidate Interview.
Anchors governance in the core tenets of “Affordability, Accessibility, and Action,” requiring transparent displacement monitoring on large-scale municipal rezonings and holding city departments accountable to equity-centered performance metrics.
Sources: Austin Monitor and The Austin Bulldog.
Eliminates density bonuses without verified affordable units, establishes real-time public dashboards to track municipal spending and corporate subsidies, and revives the annual Household Affordability Tracker to report directly to City Council on housing, childcare, utility, and transit burdens.
Sources: Neha for Austin City Council D3, Austin Free Press Candidate Forum Coverage, The Austin Chronicle City Council Overview, and The Austin Bulldog District 3 Reporting
Enforces fiscal accountability by opposing property tax rate increases, auditing corporate tax incentives, and requiring transparent public review on municipal zoning decisions.
Sources: Community Impact and Austin Monitor
Nothing conclusively could be identified based on available public platform information.
Calls for independent operational and financial audits of municipal spending to ensure transparency and rebuild taxpayer trust. Demands strict performance milestones for city contracts, opposing the automatic renewal of homelessness service agreements that fail to meet performance targets.
Sources: Brock Skinner Campaign Platform and Real Texas Radio Candidate Interview.
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.