Affordability & Affordable Housing
Housing is the biggest cost most families face, and rent and mortgage increases are squeezing people across our city. The City's 2021 Affordable Housing Study found OKC was already more than 44,000 units short of what we need and that gap has only grown as our population grows and our housing stock ages. We have to legalize more housing while protecting what makes our neighborhoods special.
Landry supports the City's ongoing zoning update to allow more missing-middle housing by right ADUs, duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes alongside base zones that document the historic materials and building styles unique to each neighborhood. He helped pass the first piece of that update, the ADU and homesharing ordinance, during his time working for the Realtors. As your council member, he'll work closely with every Ward 6 neighborhood to make sure their character is properly represented in the next phase.
The current process for building new housing the SPUD, or Simplified Planned Unit Development isn't working. It forces nearly every project into a full rezoning that takes months, almost always requires a lawyer, and tilts the playing field toward out-of-state corporate investors who can afford to navigate it. It also puts huge pressure on Planning Commission, Council, and permitting staff to scrutinize and later interpret thousands of one-off approvals. Drive around our city and most of the buildings that feel out of place with their neighborhood are SPUDs. By moving more housing types to by-right approval with clear standards on materials and style we get more predictable outcomes for residents, fairer competition for local builders, and better protection for our historic neighborhoods.
Landry also serves on the Housing Advisory Group, a group of local experts and stakeholders helping guide the City's $50 million affordable housing allocation from the 2025 GO Bond.
Affordability & Transportation
After housing, transportation is the biggest cost most families carry. AAA estimates the average American spends over $12,000 a year on a single car for a two-car household, that's an enormous burden, and one that falls hardest on the families who can least afford it. Building and maintaining real public transit, investing in safe bike infrastructure, and making our streets walkable isn't optional. It's how we give people their money and their time back.
The goal is straightforward: lay the foundation now so that the next generation of Oklahoma Citians can get by with one car per household, and the generation after that can live car-free if they choose. That's why Landry is a strong supporter of ONE Transit, Central Oklahoma's comprehensive regional transit initiative that will go before voters as a sales tax measure. He'll keep working to build support for it and to make sure the system we build serves every neighborhood, not just a few.
Landry also brings firsthand experience from the transportation sector. His day job is helping build out Oklahoma's electric vehicle charging network. The long-term answer is fewer cars, but in the meantime, helping drivers and fleets transition to cleaner EVs is one of the most important things we can do to cut emissions and clean up the air our kids breathe.
Addressing Homelessness
Too many of our neighbors are one bad month away from losing their housing. Through his past work, Landry has joined Point-in-Time counts and toured nearly every shelter and service provider in the metro and the lesson from the people doing this work every day is clear: housing first, with real wraparound care, is what works.
Landry will fight to secure serious, sustained investment in the City's Key to Home initiative, which has already rehoused over 500 people through its encampment rehousing program, with 93% of residents accepting housing when it's offered. For the remaining 7% who decline, Landry will push the City to keep meeting them where they are and to ensure they receive care with dignity not criminalization.
Landry supports OKC's new Mental Health Crisis Response team and will work to expand it. Sending trained clinicians instead of police to mental health calls is a proven best practice that keeps people safer and frees up officers for the work only they can do.
He also supports investing in evidence-based services for neighbors struggling with substance use and addiction. As the drugs on our streets become more dangerous and more addictive, our response has to meet the moment with compassion, harm reduction, and a real path to recovery.