Policy

You know the why. Here's the how. 

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Housing

The bridge between economic growth and our way of life

A stable housing market supports families, local businesses, and long-term community stability. In Cache County and across Utah, housing shortages are pricing out young families, limiting workforce growth, and pushing the next generation away. Pricing our own families out of our community undermines our way of life and divides families across state lines.

Current policy requires places like Cache to sacrifice our open spaces in order to continue receiving state funding.

    Barbara supports policy that:

    • Expand ownership-first starter housing through local partnerships, allowing cities and counties to opt into faster approvals, smaller home designs, and infrastructure-neutral incentives without mandates or loss of local control.
    • Bridge the gap between renting and owning with recyclable shared-equity support, helping first-time buyers afford homes while ensuring public investment is repaid and reused for future families.
    • Protect long-term affordability, by pairing new construction with clear price standards, size limits, and basic finish requirements so homes built for Utah families remain attainable.


    Fiscal Stewardship

    Better money allocation is the gateway to better funded education, better funded public safety, and streamlined public services. Archaic policy forces our largest industries to waste resources and money in order to operate.

    Barbara is committed to ensuring that when money is appropriated, it is first and foremost put into places that benefit Utah taxpayers. When the economy is as strong as Utah's, taxes shouldn't get tied up in higher courts where legislative lawsuits live, they should end up on the frontlines where Utahns need them the most, invested in policy that alleviates active crisis that threaten our homes, air, water, and way of life.

    Barbara supports policy that:

    • Invests in communities and industries to ensure the means for efficiency updates are available to reduce waste
    • Addresses documented needs and requires solid justification for cuts to essential/public services
    • Requires the legislature to follow cost-effective de-escalatory steps before entering into costly lawsuits


    Invest In Future Leadership

    Legislators will come and go and it's up to the generation now to clear the path for a new generation to take the reins. Clearing roadblocks for new candidates and leaders is the duty and honor of a legislative body that seeks to protect Utah's future.

    Barbara supports policy that:

    • Removes unnecessary roadblocks for grassroots and independent movements
    • Protects voter rights, such as ballot initiatives and appropriate checks and balances

    Public Safety: Restorative Justice

    Domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse have been nicknamed "Utah's Favorite Crimes." It is clear that the measures and policy around these crimes do not deter or prevent new and repeat offenders. Something must change if we want our communities to become safeguarded against such invasive and violating crimes to the families of our communities.

    Barbara supports policy that:

    • Focuses on who was harmed, their needs, and whose obligation is it to address those needs
    • Supports practices that have statistically resulted in rehabilitation over cyclical incarceration
    • Focuses on meeting victims needs and holding offenders actively responsible, rather than just imposing impersonal punishment via court rulings
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