Chris Otten has been living and working in Ward One since March 2000.
Otten served as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner on the Adams Morgan ANC between 2008 — 2010 and focused his time on outreach, libraries, and important projects in the community.
Otten regularly testifies before the City Council especially during agency oversight hearings and is quite familiar with the roles and purpose of the city’s alphabet soup of executive agencies.
Otten likens himself as a citizen agent and when asked will readily step up to defend communities and residents facing displacement, unjust evictions, and unwanted harassment by unaccountable slumlords, wayward police, and harmful city policies.
There is an alternative for Ward One.
Phone: 202-810-2768
Email: oughttabeotten@protonmail.com
Socials: Twitter IG
Putting Chris Otten on the D.C. City Council means winning a champion for:
1. Smart Housing Density with Far More Parity:
We will and must build more housing for families with less. We must move beyond housing construction aimed almost exclusively at single professionals (why has this been ok?) We will legislatively redefine “Affordable housing” to focus help for residents and families making the living wage or below.
2. Humane Treatment for All Residents:
We will end homelessness and stop forced displacement in Ward One. Everyone who wants housing will receive it & quickly and no more bulldozing encampments, period.
3. Social Uplift for Everyone Now:
We will open health clinics, community centers, and parks equitably in every Ward One neighborhood after mapping all community service gaps. And, we will find funding assistance for mutual aid groups serving our most vulnerable communities including our immigrant brothers and sisters.
4. Tax Justice Across the Board:
We will end the gratuitous tax gifts for luxury hotels, stadiums, & condos, we will abate property tax hikes on vulnerable Ward One elders and low income families, and we will end the regressive tax policy on small businesses by banning triple-net leases.
5. Open a Ward One Resource Center:
We will welcome all to the Ward One Council office as an open public resource center set up for you to get assistance and readily connect with executive services. We will document engagements with city resources and agencies and then use our experiences for accountability at City Council oversight hearings to fix real service gaps and improve our community outcomes together.
