Reeves for Raleigh

Thank you to the Indy Week for taking the time to come out to the polls with me to talk about our field campaign and plan to make Raleigh a place that works for working people. Check it out here:

A Morning at the Polls With Reeves Peeler, At-Large Candidate for Raleigh City Council Reeves Peeler is running a grassroots campaign against two popular incumbents for an at-large seat on the Raleigh City Council.

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We are looking for more volunteer poll-greeters at the following polling places to help us finish out Early Voting strong:
📍 John Chavis Memorial Park
📍 Laurel Hills Community Center
📍 Abbotts Creek Community Center

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Curious about any of my platform? Check out my in-depth questionnaire responses to the INDY Week

Candidate Questionnaire: Reeves Peeler, Raleigh City Council At-Large Name as it appears on the ballot: Reeves Peeler Age: 37 Party affiliation: Democrat Campaign website: www.reevesforraleigh.com Occupation & employer: Community Development Finance at First Citizens Bank Years lived in Raleigh: 30 In the next 10 years, Raleigh should become a City where working class...

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I am very proud to announce that our people-powered campaign has been endorsed by the Muslim American Public Affairs Council!

Thank you for standing with us. Let's win this together! ✊

Huge shoutout to our amazing crew of volunteer poll greeters who covered nearly every Raleigh polling location today for the first day of early voting!

To get this campaign over the finish line, we need YOU poll greeting for us during early voting and on election day. Reach out to us via dm, email [email protected], or fill out the contact form on Reeves4Raleigh.com to poll greet for us!

Very honoured to have the chance to sit down with my alma mater's student newspaper to discuss our field campaign and talk about how we need to break the status quo so working people can thrive in Raleigh. Check out the full piece at https://www.technicianonline.com/news/reeves-peeler-is-knocking-on-raleigh-s-door/article_21f8c12e-85f2-11ef-8a53-67fde89e0a2a.html

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Habitat for Humanity of Wake County interviewed me on local housing issues and you can read my responses here! Scroll down to "at-large" and then my name. https://www.habitatwake.org/elections

Q: One in four households are unable to afford housing in our community. Six decades of stagnant wages, a 30-year undersupply of housing, and too little public and private funding are driving this housing crisis. If elected, what specific policies, practices, or initiatives will you implement to increase affordable housing in our community?

There are numerous ways we can do this in Raleigh in the short term. I will push to create zoning overlays that protect these affordable units from destruction. Zoning is one of the most powerful tools at the City’s disposal to either incentivize or disincentivize development. In much the same way that we incentivize development of underutilized areas, we should disincentivize the destruction and displacement of our badly needed working class and middle class homes and neighborhoods. We can do this with overlays and with new zoning classifications in our UDO that outline and identify the key characteristics of housing stock that we badly need to preserve.

I will push to expand the City’s investment into the Wake County Affordable Housing Preservation Fund in order to add our ability to maintain, upkeep, and preserve these NOAH units. In the same way that we incentivize the new development we want, we must also incentivize maintaining the development we want to keep.

I believe we need to amend our urban infill ordinances (also called Missing Middle) to limit the size of certain housing types as the City is redeveloped. Raleigh already uses this policy with our ADU rules, where we limit the total square footage and footprint of an ADU. By expanding this approach to things like Cottage Courts, Townhouses, and Duplexes, we can help encourage developers to build new market rate infill stock that is not super-sized and hyper-expensive (aka a “McMansion”). This can create housing that's affordable at the 80-100% median income levels that are not subsidized, as Missing Middle was originally intended to do.

Another step I will push for is to improve and expand how we use Density Bonuses. I believe the concept behind the Density Bonus for Raleigh’s Frequent Transit Areas (aka as Frequent Transit Development Option or FTDO) is an excellent start. We could expand this by offering further incentives for developers to build both smaller and more dense housing in appropriate areas near public transit and bike/ped amenities.

I believe Raleigh is in need of a bigger and bolder affordable housing bond that targets more subsidy at the

Elections and Affordable Housing | Habitat for Humanity Wake County For example, municipalities can leverage federal, state, and local funds to develop affordable housing. Local governments can also update zoning regulations to increase the housing supply, making homes more accessible to everyone. Additionally, federal resources can provide downpayment assistance fo...

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I am very proud to announce that our people-powered campaign has been endorsed by the NC Democratic Party's Arab Caucus.

Thank you for standing with us. Let's win this together! ✊