declared · Campaign / office
Cardiologist and former ICU nurse.
Supports building housing near CTA to utilize public transportation.
No specific mechanism stated.
“And then there's ways to build a housing like near CTA so that people can utilize public transportation.”
— WGN News, 2026-07-07
Proposes utilizing vacant properties to increase housing supply.
No specific mechanism stated.
“So you retain the affordability to the housing that you have right now, but you also have to build additional affordable housing.”
— WGN News, 2026-07-07
“I think there’s about 120,000 vacant places that we can start expediting. And how do we get that up to speed and fill those?”
— WTTW News, 2026-07-29
Supports expediting the permit process for housing development to prevent losing developers to other cities.
No specific mechanism stated.
“The permit process needs to be expedited. There’s a lot of waste in there and I’ve spoken to people who wanted to build housing and said, ‘It took too long and I decided to go somewhere else.’ We can’t be losing those people to other cities that are growing while we are not growing.”
— WTTW News, 2026-07-29