The cost of living crisis is forcing families out of New Orleans. Rent, insurance, utility bills, and fines have risen far faster than wages—leaving working people paying more and getting less. This plan focuses on the costs where public action can make the biggest difference and where city leadership has real authority to act.

We are stopping the insurance spiral by pushing for affordable, universal basic coverage, lowering household energy bills through stronger regulation and community solar, and ending extractive traffic camera fines. These actions are about keeping people in their homes and restoring basic economic stability for New Orleans families.

New Orleans doesn’t have a pothole problem—it has a capacity problem. Years of outsourcing and underinvestment have left the City unable to deliver basic services quickly, reliably, or affordably. Streets stay broken, lights stay out, and residents pay the price.

This plan rebuilds the City’s ability to do its own work: hiring in-house crews, enforcing contractor accountability, paying vendors on time, and coordinating infrastructure projects so streets aren’t torn up twice. Strong public works are not a luxury—they are the foundation of a functioning city.

Every year, hundreds of millions of public dollars flow into infrastructure projects across New Orleans—but too often, those dollars leave the city with outside contractors and temporary labor. Public investment should build long-term opportunity for the people who live here.

This platform ensures local projects create local jobs by requiring local hiring, paid apprenticeships, and prevailing wages on City and utility projects. When public money rebuilds our city, it should also rebuild our workforce and create real career pathways for New Orleanians.

New Orleans has rare local authority over its electric utility—and that power must work for people, not just corporate profit. Rising bills, long outages, and broken efficiency programs are the result of regulatory choices, not inevitability.

This plan lowers monthly electricity costs, expands access to clean energy for renters and homeowners alike, and builds neighborhood-level power to keep the lights on during outages. By enforcing community solar, ending “ghost charges,” and investing in solar-plus-battery systems, we can make energy affordable, reliable, and resilient.