Jordan Lopez Will Fight for the Issues That Matter

Food Access for All

Everybody eats! So addressing food insecurity at the state level shouldn’t be a partisan issue- just the right thing to do. When the federal Government shutdown in late 2025, over a million North Carolinians temporarily lost access to their SNAP benefits. This highlighted a problem that families across our community and state have known for far too long: access to food is not always guaranteed- but it should be. As your Representative, I will support access to food by:

Work to create a pot of funding for food serving organizations to purchase food from local and regional farmers to redistribute at low-to-no cost to neighbors in need. Supporting both local and regional farmers and food insecure families at the same time.
Advocate for North Carolina to fully opt-out of the ban on formerly incarcerated people from receiving SNAP benefits if they were convicted of a drug felony. These individuals have served their time, and imposing an additional barrier on people re-entering society is not justice, it’s cruel.
Continue my support for legislation that allows for public school students, wherever they are from, to receive school lunch for free. We have the means to ensure all of our students eat, we just need leaders in Raleigh to make it happen.

Real Investment in Public Education

Since taking the majority almost a decade ago, legislative Republicans have been waging a very intentional and systematic attack against North Carolina’s public schools. While the NCGOP continues to refuse paying our educators a sustainable wage, they are also diverting over $600 Million dollars (that’s $13.6 Million dollars over 3 years in Mecklenburg alone) to fund private school vouchers with no eligibility requirements, instead of fully funding our public schools. My support for public education includes:

Ensure that increases to the base starting teacher pay, and subsequent salary steps are tied to inflation (the same way political contributions are) to ensure our public educators are not just getting by, but can actually get ahead.
Advocate for restoring Master’s Pay for teachers. These professionals invest in themselves to be better educators for our students, it’s time we invest back into them.
Support funding that creates or expands programs designed to help improve student learning outcomes and career readiness. From afterschool programming to in-class assistance and pre-apprenticeships, our students are worth the investment.

Economic Opportunity For All

As your State Representative I will continue working with my legislative colleagues to ensure that the voices of East Charlotte families, entrepreneurs, and business owners are heard in Raleigh. From our established community staples to startups that just need an extra push, North Carolina can continue to be the best state for business, especially our small businesses, without leaving working families behind. This includes:

Support funding opportunities and resources for workforce training and business development for our thriving small business community.
Work with both legislative and economic development partners to showcase East Charlotte as a destination to attract new investments into our community.
Work with my colleagues to establish paid family leave, parental leave, and sick days; all of which are protections needed to ensure our working families are supported if, and ultimately when, life happens.

Good Governance for a Great State

Through across the board tax cuts, including the complete elimination of corporate income taxes, the NCGOP-led General Assembly has decimated our state’s ability to raise revenue. This directly impacts our ability to invest in crucial services like our public schools, Medicaid services, our colleges and universities- especially HBCU’s, the DMV, resources to make housing more attainable, invest in public safety, and so much more. Many of these expenses get passed onto local governments- ultimately raising your property taxes. As your Representative, I will continue to work for better governance by:

Continuing to call for a freeze on any additional corporate income tax cuts to avoid our state falling into a deficit.
Introducing new revenue generating streams that will enable North Carolina to invest in programs and resources that can improve the lives of our neighbors.
Supporting efforts to modernize state services, making them more efficient and easier to access in an effort to restore taxpayers’ confidence in their state government and its stewardship of hard-earned taxpayers dollars.

Prioritizing Public Safety

People deserve to feel safe in their homes, their workplaces, schools, public transit, while grocery shopping, and in so many other instances. Ensuring law enforcement throughout the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area has the resources in place to effectively prosecute and punish crime is vital, but addressing the root causes of crime in an effort to prevent it from happening in the first place must also be a priority too. As your Representative, I will continue advocating for public safety by:

Advocating for and supporting funding to ensure the Mecklenburg County’s Court System is adequately staffed to effectively serve the 1.2 Million people who call this city and county home.
Supporting funding for alternative to violence programs that are community based, and a proven method of disrupting violent crime.
Advocating for policies and funding that address the severe lack of mental health access that leaves fellow community members in distress with very few options for receiving the help they need.

Housing Access and Affordability

Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, and is currently the 15th largest city in the country. As a native, I know first hand that the growth we’ve experienced has been both exciting, and at times concerning! As we’ve welcomed all of our new neighbors, we’ve undoubtedly experienced some growing pains; one of the most prominent being the cost of housing. While housing policy is largely set at the local level, the state can and should do more to help increase our housing supply, its affordability and quality, and support for first time home-buyers. As your Representative, my support for housing access and affordability includes:

Legalizing the ability to build more diverse types of housing allows for a better approach at balancing the need for more housing, an efficient use of land, and affordability. An example of this is single stair reform!
Putting an end to corporate homeownership that has concentrated itself in crescent neighborhoods throughout Mecklenburg County. Increasing our housing supply should go hand in hand with ensuring the homes we build go to actual residents who are looking to own.
Incentivizing incremental development that prioritizes community-led (re)development that not only increases our housing supply and small business opportunities, but does so in a way that is responsive to the unique needs of our communities.