Ann Arbor renter seeking seat on all-homeowner City Council

ANN ARBOR, MI — With no renters on the 11-member Ann Arbor City Council, 5th Ward resident Carrie Rheingans is running for office with hopes of changing that.

Rheingans, a health policy expert and lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, has announced her campaign to challenge 5th Ward incumbent Ali Ramlawi in the August 2022 Democratic primary.

Counting herself among the majority of city residents who are renters, she decided to run after years of trying and failing to enter the expensive Ann Arbor housing market, she said.

“I’ve spent the last two decades of personal activism and my professional career addressing health disparities, many of which result from social and economic policies around housing, community safety and education set at local, state and national levels,” she said in a statement. “I became frustrated with my experience trying to break into the Ann Arbor housing market, and, like so many systems in our country, when I dug deeper, I saw the stark and unfair differences in ability to participate between races and economic groups.”




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