Leadership Starts With Listening
We’re launching the District 41 Community Survey to hear directly from you. Your input is essential in shaping policies and priorities that reflect the real needs and concerns of our neighborhoods. The data we collect will guide my legislative agenda and ensure that my work in Annapolis is rooted in the lived experiences, immediate needs, and priorities of District 41. Below are some platforms that I think are important to prioritize in district 41.
Priorities for Baltimore's Future
Economic Stability
Our older adults deserve more than just our respect; they deserve action. As healthcare costs rise and access becomes more complex, it's more important now than ever to create multiple, reliable pathways that reinforce and expand the Medicaid safety net. This means improving outreach to ensure eligible older adults are enrolled, increasing funding for home- and community-based care, and ensuring our policies prioritize dignity, independence, and quality of life for aging residents.
Did You Know: Medicaid covers more than 1 in 4 Marylanders, and over 60% of children in Baltimore City.
Baltimore deserves energy that’s accountable to the people, not shareholders. It's time to reimagine our energy future, starting with community ownership. Baltimore City needs to expand access to community solar projects. Through shared solar programs and targeted incentives, families can lower their utility bills while contributing to a greener, more sustainable future for Baltimore. There are organizations that are already equipped to assist communities with rising electric costs. We need to support the systems they have already working and build on them.
Did you Know: That Baltimore Shines has been offering free rooftop solar installations to low- and moderate-income Baltimore City residents, while strengthening job opportunities for residents through training and placement in the solar industry?
Once installed, the panels are estimated to eliminate 80 to 100 percent of a family’s electricity bills, while increasing a home’s value, on average, by 4% and helping decrease carbon emissions across the city.
Check out the article: "Nonprofits helps MD residents fight rising energy costs"
Excerpt from the article: "William Gibson is a Baltimore City homeowner who is much happier with his bill from Baltimore Gas & Electric these days. When the panels were installed almost two years ago on his 1925 single-family home in the Forest Park neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore, he watched his electric bill, as high as $300 to $400 per month during the winter, immediately drop to almost zero, outside of taxes and fees. And it’s been almost zero ever since. “It was a surprise,” he said. “I’m on a fixed income, and this helps my bottom line tremendously.”
Maryland and Baltimore City have taken important steps toward affordable housing. Passing laws, creating incentives, and funding programs. We need to work with city government to help move these programs forward.
Did you Know: Last year, Mayor Scott signed the City’s first Affordable Housing TIF Comprehensive Housing Plan into law In December 2024, providing up to $150 million over time to support neighborhood-based, block level redevelopment throughout the City’s historically disinvested communities. Developers, community-based organizations and legacy residents will now have access to large-scale capital to build wealth through homeownership, scale up business growth and development, and lead neighborhood-based change. DHCD gathered input from the community through town halls, surveys, and focus groups, and just this past September 19, 2025, The City Wide Affordable Housing TIF application portal opened and is now accepting applications. You can learn more about the program here, and can fill out the application here.
****THE APPLICATION PROCESS DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 3RD****
The shortened application period is necessary to allow the City to receive all of the required financial and legal approvals we need in order to sell the bonds by the end of this calendar year. We must sell the bonds before we can make the funds available to our applicants. Our goal is to be able to make these funds available in early 2026.
The following neighborhoods in District 41 have been selected to participate in the program:
Allendale
Arlington
Ashburton
Beechfield
Central Forest Park
Central Park Heights
Cross Country
Cylburn
Dickeyville
Dolfield
Dorchester
Edmonson Village
Falls Staff
Forest Park
Forest Park Golf Course
Franklintown
Glen
Gwynn Falls
Kenworth Park
Mid Govans
Midtown Edmonson
Mount Washington
North Roland Park/Poplar Hill
Pimlico Good Neighbors
Reisterstown Town Station
Rana Heights
Rowland Park
Sabina Mattfeldt
Seton Business Park
Tawanda – Grantley
Ten Hills
Tremont
Uplands
Wakefield
West Arlington
West Forest Park
West Hills
Westgate
Woodmere
Wyndhurst
Yale Heights
Use this link to learn about eligibility.
Use this link to find out if your property is eligible.
Use the drop down box in the lefthand corner to find your neighborhood.
Then click the home icon in the top left corner of he map.
Locate the black outlined area.
Then zoom in and out using the -and + buttons in the top left corner of the map.
If your house number is located inside the black outline in a TIF district, you may be eligible to apply.
Things To Know:
You can live in the property, sell it or rent it. Whoever lives in your property cannot earn more than 115% of the area median income, which is approximately $150,000 for a household of four. Income limits can be found here.
Work can only be done by licensed contractors and subcontractors. Before a grant is finalized, you will need to provide licenses and proof of insurance for your contractors and subcontractors.
There will be multiple opportunities to apply for TIF Funds and the information will be released in various rounds.
You can also track the progress of the project here.
ECONOMIC STABILITY
Education
When federal cuts are made to the very programs that open doors for our youth, Maryland must build new ones. Our kids deserve more than broken promises. They deserve real opportunities to thrive.
Did You Know: The Trump administration's $400 million reduction in AmeriCorps funding has already eliminated 18 service terms for volunteers this spring, with another 25 summer positions now in jeopardy.
Every apprenticeship is an investment in our city’s future workforce, reducing unemployment, building stronger communities, and keeping talented young people in Baltimore.
Did You Know: In Baltimore, approximately 13% of young people aged 16–24 are disconnected from school and work, with significant racial disparities: about 1 in 5 Black females and nearly 1 in 4 Black males are disconnected, compared to roughly 1 in 25 White females and 1 in 16 White males.
We have proof that our systems are working. Progress backed by real data. But as funding shrinks, we can’t afford to operate without clear structures to track, manage, and sustain what’s delivering results. Building a strong data tracking system will help us protect effective services, make smarter use of every dollar, and ensure our resources last. If we want long-term impact, we need the tools to measure it and the strategy to preserve it. I will prioritize modernizing comprehensive, citywide data tracking systems to ensure services are coordinated, effective, and responsive.
Did You Know? Maryland state officials cannot accurately track how much money the state spends on nonprofits. Some departments, like the Maryland Department of Health, stated that they “lacked assurance that the balances of the revenue and expenditure accounts related to federal fund activity were accurate.'
EDUCATION
Public Safety
SNAP and Medicaid cuts aren’t just budget cuts; they’re lifelines being pulled from under our communities. Without access to food assistance and healthcare, families face deeper poverty, youth face greater instability, and entire neighborhoods are pushed closer to crisis.
We need leaders who will take bold, proactive action and build more effective, data-driven safety nets grounded in community needs and long-term solutions. When basic needs go unmet, public safety suffers. Hunger, untreated illness, and economic despair don’t just harm individuals, they ripple through schools, strain emergency services, and fuel cycles of harm.
We need state leaders who understand that investing in people is the surest path to safer, healthier communities.
It’s about preventing harm in the first place. Through mental health care, housing stability, education, and opportunity, we can build a safer Baltimore through accountability, coordination, and care. Again, we know that our systems are working. We need to operate with clear structures that track, manage, and sustain what’s delivering results in all areas.