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Plans to require community benefit agreements for any real estate development project valued at over $5 million.

Wants to create a "job and entrepreneurship program that will guarantee every young person living in Atlanta a job or contract with the city."

- Plans to require community benefit agreements for any real estate development project valued at over $5 million.
- Wants to create a "job and entrepreneurship program that will guarantee every young person living in Atlanta a job or contract with the city."

Public Services

Supports increasing funding of recreation centers to hire tutoring staff for students affected by the pandemic.

- Supports increasing funding of recreation centers to hire tutoring staff for students affected by the pandemic.

COVID

Supports tax breaks for companies who promise to consult and contract with small, minority-owned businesses and "tax breaks that lead to employment of residents from District 9 and across low-income communities across Atlanta."

Plans to increase taxes on corporations to lower housing costs.

Wants to establish an Atlanta Reparations Taskforce to investigate the role of Atlanta corporations and institutions who benefited from slavery and determine appropriate compensation arrangements for descendants of enslaved people.

- Supports tax breaks for companies who promise to consult and contract with small, minority-owned businesses and "tax breaks that lead to employment of residents from District 9 and across low-income communities across Atlanta."
- Plans to increase taxes on corporations to lower housing costs.
- Wants to establish an Atlanta Reparations Taskforce to investigate the role of Atlanta corporations and institutions who benefited from slavery and determine appropriate compensation arrangements for descendants of enslaved people.

City Budget

Plans to establish an eviction relief program to assist tenants with rent and to create a "city housing voucher to reduce the 15,000 person waiting list for housing assistance."

Supports converting unused city property into affordable housing units, creating an Office of the Tenant Advocate and increasing funding for more low-barrier emergency and transitional housing for unsheltered families.

- Plans to establish an eviction relief program to assist tenants with rent and to create a "city housing voucher to reduce the 15,000 person waiting list for housing assistance."
- Supports converting unused city property into affordable housing units, creating an Office of the Tenant Advocate and increasing funding for more low-barrier emergency and transitional housing for unsheltered families.

Housing & Urban Development

Supports closing the city jail, redirecting funding for the jail to community-based crime intervention prevention centers and opening more substance abuse and mental health clinics in the city.

Wants to create the Dope Boy Dispensary program, a medical cannabis co-op program "to help those impacted by Atlanta’s role in the failed war on drugs to become owners and generate wealth within Georgia’s emerging multi-million \[dollar\] cannabis industry."

Plans to promote community-centered service, increase mental health accessibility for public safety officials and repurpose police funding to build a 24-hour mental health crisis center.

- Supports closing the city jail, redirecting funding for the jail to community-based crime intervention prevention centers and opening more substance abuse and mental health clinics in the city.
- Wants to create the Dope Boy Dispensary program, a medical cannabis co-op program "to help those impacted by Atlanta’s role in the failed war on drugs to become owners and generate wealth within Georgia’s emerging multi-million \[dollar\] cannabis industry."
- Plans to promote community-centered service, increase mental health accessibility for public safety officials and repurpose police funding to build a 24-hour mental health crisis center.

Public Safety

Supports the construction of the BeltLine Rail and increasing funding for MARTA.

Plans to repurpose old tires to repave roads with economic incentives for community members to participate and starting a lead remediation and removal program to update outdated piping systems.

Supports "hold\[ing\] developers accountable for stormwater runoff."

- Supports the construction of the BeltLine Rail and increasing funding for MARTA.
- Plans to repurpose old tires to repave roads with economic incentives for community members to participate and starting a lead remediation and removal program to update outdated piping systems.
- Supports "hold\[ing\] developers accountable for stormwater runoff."

Transportation & Infrastructure

Plans to create zoning policies that "allow for shelter pod communities to be built on vacant parking lots or city-owned land for unsheltered people featuring onsite services."

- Plans to create zoning policies that "allow for shelter pod communities to be built on vacant parking lots or city-owned land for unsheltered people featuring onsite services."

Zoning

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As of May 15, 2025, Dustin Hillis’s website did not contain information on this issue.

As a city council member, he worked to save or add "over 900 affordable housing units" to the district and "establish an owner-occupied rehab program for our elderly and legacy residents."

As a city council member, he helped secure a Housing and Urban Development grant for redeveloping the Bowen Homes site.

- As a city council member, he worked to save or add "over 900 affordable housing units" to the district and "establish an owner-occupied rehab program for our elderly and legacy residents."
- As a city council member, he helped secure a Housing and Urban Development grant for redeveloping the Bowen Homes site.

Atlanta Intown Paper

As a city council member, he supported building a $90 million police and firefighter training facility on 85 acres of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm that the city previously set aside as greenspace. The facility, nicknamed "Cop City" by activists, is widely opposed by residents, businesses and environmental nonprofits.

As a city council member, he wanted to sell the city jail to Fulton County to help ease overcrowding inside the county jail.

As a city council member, he voted against withholding $73 million from the Atlanta Police Department's budget until Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom’s administration drafted a plan to reform policing.

As a city council member, he pushed for hiring more police officer, and he supports hiring 500 more officers.

Supports continuing the city's surveillance camera network.

- As a city council member, he supported building a $90 million police and firefighter training facility on 85 acres of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm that the city previously set aside as greenspace. The facility, nicknamed "Cop City" by activists, is widely opposed by residents, businesses and environmental nonprofits.
- As a city council member, he wanted to sell the city jail to Fulton County to help ease overcrowding inside the county jail.
- As a city council member, he voted against withholding $73 million from the Atlanta Police Department's budget until Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom’s administration drafted a plan to reform policing. 
- As a city council member, he pushed for hiring more police officer, and he supports hiring 500 more officers. 
- Supports continuing the city's surveillance camera network.

As a city council member, he wanted to create a "Special Service District" around the Beltline "to bring in $100 million in additional tax revenue over the next 10 years" that would go to affordable housing, job creation and small businesses.

As a city council member, he was responsible for "the installation of traffic calming measures on many local streets" and supports the installation of more than 10,000 additional streetlights across the city.

Plans to implement the Vision Zero Plan and to rebuild local recreation centers.

Supports having every resident within a ten-minute walking distance of a park and bringing back "the pothole posse and fill every pothole within five days of a complaint."

- As a city council member, he wanted to create a "Special Service District" around the Beltline "to bring in $100 million in additional tax revenue over the next 10 years" that would go to affordable housing, job creation and small businesses.
- As a city council member, he was responsible for "the installation of traffic calming measures on many local streets" and supports the installation of more than 10,000 additional streetlights across the city.
- Plans to implement the Vision Zero Plan and to rebuild local recreation centers.
- Supports having every resident within a ten-minute walking distance of a park and bringing back "the pothole posse and fill every pothole within five days of a complaint."

Dustin Hillis

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