Chattanooga Mayor candidate Kim White joins Chip for a look at her vision for Chattanooga's future.

Chattanooga Mayor candidate Kim White joins Chip for a look at her vision for Chattanooga's future.

With you the same way it did with tim, tell me what on your resume qualifies you to be mayo of chattanooga and why do you want the asset or thanking as is.

There's three different things that that really my background prepare the mayor, is my background, the wagner lap.

I went to publi school, a payment like the utc, i start a career i've read enough 4500 company and the later they are but the past 11 years i been present el i've ever seen a company and on the city as i a private nonprofit focused on downtown redevelopment.

We did our job by bringing partners together, working together and they downtown lord some work with the county, the city and the foundations really trying to solve a gift is not that really set me apart is someone that had filled collaborations and partnerships.

I'm also on the only candidate ever recruited business here.

I recruited 1.2.

I'm also on the only candidate ever recruited business here.

I recruited $1.2 million and invest into chattanooga billion with a baby with a date with a and i brought thousands of jobs, the city's footprint was really focused just on downtown right now so many other names in our city and i've been encouraged over the years.

Tim really is my voice in a bigger way really how we actually do by recruitment and planning and bringing all parts of the city you're aware that some of your detractors ar saying you focus too much on th child to the exclusion of some of the other zip codes.

Yet he responded at all.

He said this is narrow on the past 11 years.

My job was downtown right and i think what's amazing, as in 200 and they back to my hometown without a job so i created quite a reputation as someone they ge things done for downtown so that was the mission of any kind that what i is, the reason i walked away from that job wants to actually bring that experience to make sure we fit every part of the city.

There are a lot of moving parts obviously running detailed, especially when the city saw the size of this where you stand on working with the current administration's will t fire in the police departments are front reseller are from one responders obviously vitally important to all of us what your relationship with them and how would you fluently i and you and i been out in the community talking to people since september and heart all that we need more first responders and better first responders and first responders that look like dan bari in place and i cannot very strongly with the public safety policy and both on both policing and endorse my campaign.

I am a big proponent and keep friday's leadership on a supporter of him, but they need more resources and the first thing that were in and they would look at how we increase.

I we are losing how many police and fire firemen because i are looking into going to run outside can write so that we need to make sure that we lift them up, support, and given the resources 98 and i can recruit our first responders that look like your neighborhoo south facing have to have strong public safety in order that he short without the articles talk about the housing situation her for a moment, not just downtown but areawide.

Some folks say we are overpopulated housings of don't have enough pretty much the universal opinion.

As we go housing, but it's way out of ou price range.

How do we adjust the how do we fix it.

Yeah absolutely saying any realtor i town obtain we don't have enoug housing when we are out of inventory so people are coming here.

Whether we want to come you are not going to want to grow are sitting in a smart way.

I think on my background with real estate and development really suits me well to come and help us around the affordable housing pace.

So what we've talked about is that in everything a neighborhood.

I dare prop parcel that the city backpacks derelict properties that we really want to leverage and work with partners like kennedy neighborhood in pride that focus on on affordable housing right i we think that w can build 700 units of affordable housing during the first time in affordable housin is really does it fit within su, a neighborhood that is people that make 60% of median income and less on the way also need housing for people to make 80%, and more so, we need all the types of housing that we deftly have a housing, everything that with increased time with and done your opponent and i were talking about this yesterday.

You and i write here right now to get the car and go to were there $6 million houses and a quarter mile from here is one of the city's largest homeless encampment go the other direction about the same distance it's huge.

What's the first step in helping deal with the homeless population began his growling tap and on.

There are over 40 organizations that are working in that an homeless arena and mayor barkin start pulling those groups to gather to have more coordination in as single sinners was just given a grant to be the backbone agents paid to help coordinate and make sure that were not overlapping rashly going from homeless to housing and if we need to be focused on.

So the first thing i want to do is jump in and build our conversation.

I think what we candidate the number that's out there is 326.

List 326 homeless individuals, families that need to be how that one thing is a city a compassionate city we can figure out the other piece is a transient homeless bad behavior going on.

I think that we need to get tough on some the things with with driving sampan handling so so if you send is a multilayered problem which kind of goes back into more additional support for the police to do lately with us for just a moment got a ticket for.

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