Republican Victoria Lem is running for City Council in Ward 1. Due to a misunderstanding, she did not submit answers to the recent candidate survey used to create the series of stories on candidates’ positions which has been published over…
of stories on candidates’ positions which has been published over the past week. The Arizona Daily Star offered her the option of answering the survey questions in this form. When this article was printed in the June 25 edition, an unrelated headline was placed on the article through a production error. The Arizona Daily Star is reprinting the article to correct that.
2. What steps should the City of Tucson take to deal with rising housing costs in Tucson?As a REALTOR, I know the importance of having affordable housing in our community. First, we need to enhance our workforce by encouraging businesses to come to and stay in Tucson. By attracting well paying employment opportunities, and supporting credit & financial education, we can prepare and motivate more citizens to become homeowners.
4. What do you think are the main challenges the Tucson Police Department is facing right now? How should the City Council help TPD overcome them? We are grossly understaffed per capita, the response to only priority 1 calls places the citizens, community, and the responding law enforcement officers in great danger. Currently, we are a community that does not value their law enforcement officers and we now face the issues we see today.
Although I have much to learn through continued communication with TPD, other strategies I would support would be to offer signing bonuses for extending contracts much like the military offers, develop employer assisted homeownership program incentives such as down payment/closing cost assistance which may incentivize our officers to stay and develop roots in our community. This could be by way of a five-year forgivable loan to stay with the employer for five years.
As a lifelong volunteer in our community and as current President of the Tucson REALTORS Charitable Foundation, we are just one of hundreds of non-profits in the Tucson community who financially support housing initiatives.
Victoria Lem Lem is a proud 2nd generation American of Latin and Chinese descent, I was born and raised in Tucson and have lived within Ward 1 for 43 years, where I also raise my two children and live within minutes of my parents, William & Cristina Lem.
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