Matt Brewer
Candidate for Mayor, Chicago, on the ballot February 23, 2027
AI summary
The platform
Housing: Make it easier to build homes at every price point, put vacant land back to use, protect renters from displacement, and help homeowners on fixed incomes stay put.
Growth: Grow the tax base with more residents, businesses, and jobs instead of raising taxes, and tie job training to the employers the city recruits.
Safety: Well-trained, accountable police who solve more crimes, continued police reform, and every city service concentrated on the blocks with the most violence.
Schools: Early help for students who fall behind, and a plan for college, a trade, or a job for every CPS graduate.
Next to the other candidates
Only Brewer: Concentrating all city services, not only police, on the neighborhoods with the most violence.
Taxes: Mendoza, Kelly, and Brewer say relief comes from a bigger tax base. Holberg and Wilson promise lower taxes, and Carlisle proposes a new income tax tied to pension reform.
Renters: Quigley rejects new rent restrictions. Brewer and Cardenas stress protecting renters from displacement.
Not covered: Pensions and transit, which most other candidates address.
the more perfect platform
- Affordable Housing: Chicago should be a city where working people can afford to build a life, and afford to stay. For too many families, that is becoming harder every year. Rents are rising and property taxes are putting pressure on…
- Business & Jobs: Chicago cannot tax its way to prosperity. We need an economy that is growing, creating good-paying jobs and expanding opportunity in all 77 neighborhoods. Chicago has world-class universities, a diverse economy…
- Keeping Chicagoans Safe: Every Chicagoan needs to feel safe in their home, on their block, on public transit and throughout their city. Safety is not a number, safety is a Chicago that works for everyone and where all people have the opportunity…
- Education: A child's future should not be determined by their zipcode. Twenty years from now, today's students will be our workforce, entrepreneurs, parents and civic leaders. Investing in their success is one of the most important…