Housing is the foundation of a stable life. When housing is scarce and expensive, everything else becomes harder, family stability, economic mobility, and community life. Washington must dramatically increase housing supply while protecting renters and investing in permanently affordable homes.

Ron’s plan for housing affordability:

• Freeze the rent in publicly owned housing

• Invest in social and affordable housing at scale

• Strengthen renter protections and eviction prevention

• Expand supportive housing for the chronically unhoused

• Build 1.25M homes over 20 years

• Expand housing near jobs, schools, libraries, grocery stores, parks, and transit

• Fully fund the 300,000 WA families on the waitlist for federal rental assistance (formerly “Section 8”).

When cities build enough homes and support hose in need, life crises rarely turn into homelessness. Housing affordability is prevention.

Childcare is essential infrastructure. Without reliable childcare, parents cannot work, families struggle financially, and children lose critical early learning opportunities.

Ron will fight to:

• Make childcare free for working families

• Cap childcare costs relative to income for upper income families, making it affordable for all

• Invest in a universal early learning system

• Ensure childcare workers earn fair wages

Universal childcare helps families stay afloat, supports the workforce, and gives every child a strong start.

Transportation should connect people to opportunity—not drain family budgets or punish working people with long waits.

Ron believes Washington must invest in reliable, affordable transportation options.

His priorities include:

• Double the buses on the road for frequent and reliable bus service

• Paint 1000 miles of bus lanes in busy corridors.

• Build all of Sound Transit 3, including Ballard and West Seattle

• Invest in safe walking and biking infrastructure

• Ensure transit is accessible and affordable

When transportation works well, families save money, communities thrive, and emissions fall.

Public education is the foundation of a healthy democracy and a strong economy.

Ron believes Washington must fully fund public education and support the whole child.

He will fight to:

• Fully fund K–12 education, including for kids living with disabilities

• Expand mental health support in schools

• Provide universal school meals

• Invest in modern, safe school facilities

• Bell to Bell No Cell Distraction Free Learning Environment

• Support teachers and school staff

When schools succeed, communities succeed.

Washington must remain a strong defender of civil rights and democratic values. Ron believes the state must actively protect freedoms, especially when federal leadership fails to do so.

He will work to:

• Protect voting rights and democratic institutions

• Pass ranked-choice voting & even year elections to make politics more representative

• Pass the “transparent election initiative” which is the most promising path for getting corporate money out of politics.

• Strengthen sanctuary protections for immigrant communities

• Defend reproductive freedom and personal autonomy

• Defend civil liberties and equal protection under the law

• Ensure law enforcement is accountable to the communities they serve

Every person deserves to live safely and freely in their community.

Washington’s future economy should create stable, well-paid jobs while tackling the climate crisis.

Ron supports:

• Large-scale investment in clean energy and climate resilience

• Union jobs in housing, transit, industry, and infrastructure

• Expanding workforce training and apprenticeships

• Strong labor rights and fair wages in all industries

• Robust enforcement of labor law

A clean economy should create opportunity for working families, not just profits for the wealthy.

We deserve comprehensive, evidence-based interventions that keep our communities safe.

Ron supports:

• Robust behavioral health, prevention, and recovery—alongside enforcement

• Accountability for officers that violate rights

• Civilian response teams’ freedom to respond to appropriate calls

• Transportation projects that adopt vision-zero standards

• Fully funded public defense

Safety includes enforcement, but it also requires prevention, rehabilitation, and the appropriate response.