Families shouldn’t have to choose between heat, groceries, and rent. Yet rising utility bills driven by corporate greed are pushing households to the brink. For years, our rates have gotten higher and higher, yet service has gotten worse. 

• Prevent the MPSC from accepting any rate hike increases for 5 years

• Hold monopoly utilities like DTE Energy accountable by making every case before the MPSC a contested case

• Ban utility companies from spending money to influence our elections 

Utilities should serve the public, not exploit it.

In the state that put the world on wheels, families shouldn’t be priced out of owning a car. But right now, where you live determines how much you pay, which means Detroit and Downriver have some of the highest car insurance rates in the country. Lawmakers passed a bill that was supposed to change this, but they wrote in a loophole that allows insurance companies to continue charging different rates based on where you live.

• End the zip code tax that drives up car insurance rates

• Hold insurance companies accountable

• Make transportation affordable for workers and their families

Your address shouldn’t decide whether you can get to work or take your kids to school.

Rent is out of control, and high home prices mean that owning a home is out of reach for many families. Detroit and Downriver property taxes are some of the highest in the nation, and too many good homes sit in disrepair. 

• Ease restrictive zoning laws, to make it cheaper to build affordable housing

• Lower historically high property taxes

• Repeal the statewide ban on rent stabilization and rent control ordinances 

• Fund the largest home repair program in Detroit’s history

Every Michigander deserves safe housing that they can afford.

For many families, the cost of childcare is higher than rent or tuition. Parents are forced to make impossible choices- not because they don’t want to work, but because the system is broken.

• Enact affordable childcare for all

• Pay childcare workers living wages, and support childcare providers

• Make it possible to grow a family without financial fear

Raising the next generation should be a source of pride, not stress.

For too long, Detroit & Downriver neighborhoods have been treated as sacrifice zones for corporate polluters. Big Tech wants to plant massive data centers in Michigan, consuming enormous amounts of water and energy while ordinary families foot the bill. Families breathe dirty air and drink polluted water and corporations avoid accountability. That ends now. 

• Enact a moratorium on hyperscale data centers to study the strain on our grid, our water, and increased costs for families

• Pass polluter-pay legislation that makes corporations responsible for cleanup costs instead of shifting them onto taxpayers and residents

• Protect our waterways from corporate contamination, including defending communities like Wyandotte from industrial polluters along the Detroit River

No family should get sick because a corporation decided their neighborhood was an acceptable place to dump its costs.