Following her historic win in Tuesday night’s Miami mayoral runoff election, Eileen Higgins outlined her agenda.
“It feels heavy,” Higgins said. “I know that people are expecting a lot from the City of Miami, and I promise to go to work every day.”
Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins on Wednesday said the election’s results show that Miami decided to take a different direction.
She wants a city hall that gets things done and where residents are treated as customers.
And making housing affordable is one of her top priorities.
“Right now, it takes two years to permit a project to build, let’s say a hundred affordable or workforce units,” she said. “It can take two years less to build that project. The bureaucracy can not last longer than the construction.”
Higgins wants to know what city-owned land is available and what can be used for affordable housing.
On the issue of immigration, the city has previously signed the controversial 287g agreement with immigration officials
Higgins gave her thoughts on that agreement.
“The city should never entered into that agreement,” she said. “There is no reason in the city of Miami that our police department should be doing the job of federal immigration enforcement.”
For decades, Miami politics has been plagued by corruption and the constant bickering and fighting publicly, and Higgins said those days are over, and the temperature in the room has to go down.
“The era of commissioners yelling at one another and threatening to punch one another is going to stop,” she said.
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