Our city should be a welcoming, inclusive city for all. This means supporting our LGBTQ+ community, families, seniors, and entrepreneurs who call Portland home. It means supporting the arts to bring people together and strengthen our social fabric. Last but not least, it means focusing on livability, safe, clean parks and streets, thriving small businesses, great schools that give our kids a brighter future, and quality of life for all. That’s how we live our values in Portland.
- The work of thinking big and restoring our national reputation must be focused on our values, on what makes us special and unique as a city. Rene will focus on making us a safer, more livable, inclusive and economically thriving city for creators, working families, small businesses, and everyone looking to live, work, play and build a life here. People everywhere should see Portland as a welcoming place full of opportunity where anyone can come and live a life of their choosing to the very fullest.
- As Mayor, Rene will work to prioritize investments in arts and culture, entrepreneurship, education resources and civic engagement at the neighborhood level. Our food culture and restaurants are second to none, and our music scene is bouncing back with the promise of new investment and renewed vigor. Rene will work at every step of the way to ensure local creatives have the critical support they need.
- Most importantly, Rene believes we need to focus on what brings us together instead of what drives us apart. When we create the space and the vision to decide together what our future will be, when we provide the resources and support for people to connect and build in lasting ways, great things will happen. He will work tirelessly to see our parks, plazas and streets bursting with not just opportunity, but with joy.