Graham Schreiber

Two city-wide priorities, and how to achieve them

• Homelessness, which he says requires work with other levels of government.
• Drug trafficking and its effect on neighbourhoods, drawing on his experience on his own street; he describes offering help through Rotary contacts to people who want it. (This answer did not set out specific City actions.)

Two changes to improve City services

• More buses to serve more communities.
• Stronger bylaw enforcement so property owners keep properties in good shape.

Two changes to improve quality of life in Hamilton

• Taller buildings to increase housing supply; he says this would reduce homelessness.
• Compassionate institutional care for some people experiencing homelessness, modelled on the former West Fifth campus, and in his view imprisonment for others (a provincial or federal matter).

Two priorities for Ward 3

• Deal with dangerous and derelict buildings: have the City expropriate them and sell them to private developers for redevelopment into taller buildings with office, retail and housing.
• Keep parks clean and safe for children.

Three words for a four-year term (looking back from September 2030)

Compassionate, rough around the edges, pragmatic.