Nick Hellyar

Immigration He wants HPD to be a presence in the community to prevent crime and to cooperate with ICE only when dealing with persons accused of violent crimes. Criminal Justice / Public Safety District C residents deserve to know that they’re safe in their homes and in their neighborhoods. Nick Hellyar will advocate for more cadet classes for the Houston Police Department and support expansion of programs like the mental health unit. Housing Working in the real estate business and helping place people in apartments, Nick is uniquely aware of how rents have skyrocketed. There are actions the city can take to ensure affordable housing is obtainable, especially for young people, including tax breaks for companies that build real affordable housing, changes to required minimum lot size regulations to allow affordable housing to be built, and pushing for new rules to allow accessory dwelling units to be built. Infrastructure / Transportation District C is a unique community with many neighborhoods where residents walk for recreation or to visit restaurants and retail outlets. Nick wants to ensure that District C’s streets and sidewalks work for all people, whether they are walking, biking or driving—strengthening walkability and improving transit safety. Some neighborhoods have requested speed humps on their streets to slow down traffic and keep our children safe; those requests need to be fulfilled. Some streets need repairs or have potholes that should be filled. Safe streets for all should be the city’s goal. Infrastructure / Transportation Nick Hellyar knows that flooding continues to be a problem in Houston and District C. Flooding is a regional issue so there is no one solution; it’s one that requires government agencies to work together. For example, raising the bridges over Bray’s Bayou along North and South Braeswood, which helps with water flow during a flood event, is a great example of agencies working together to solve flooding problems. We need to keep our ditches maintained and open. We must keep our city clear of impediments to water flow such as picking up our heavy trash on a timely basis. And especially in our lower-income communities, we need to clean up dumped trash. More park areas like Willow Waterhole Greenway can help hold water on their land and allow it to be slowly absorbed into the ground there, rather than fill our neighborhoods.