He served as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020 and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. This expanded the existing South Bend Home Repair Pilot, which helps make available funds to assist residents with home repairs, through the use of $600,000 in city funding (double what the city had earlier pledged to the program) and $300,000 in Buttigieg had been arranging a deal under which the city's parks department would sell Elbel Golf Course to developers for $747,500.Buttigieg supported a proposed high-rise development in South Bend's East Bank neighborhoodIn September 2019, the city of South Bend finalized a long-anticipated agreement with St. Joseph County to jointly fund the county's $18 million share of the project to Beginning in August 2018, Buttigieg promoted the idea of moving the city's In 2019, South Bend launched Commuters Trust, a new During Buttigieg's tenure, Downtown South Bend saw roughly $200 million in private investment.In late September 2017, in his budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year, Buttigieg sought Common Council approval to create the new position of Director of Public Safety, which would have oversight over the city's fire and police chiefs.In September 2018, South Bend sent roughly 20 members of its fire department's Swift Water Rescue Group to After a white South Bend police officer shot and killed Eric Logan, an African-American man, in June 2019, Buttigieg was drawn from his presidential campaign to focus on the emerging public reaction.
The plan focused on In December 2017, Buttigieg announced his engagement to Chasten Glezman, a junior high school teacher.U.S.
The project cost $700,000, which was raised from private funds.By the end of Buttigieg's first term, South Bend had sold off 71 city-owned properties.In his budget proposal for the 2014 fiscal year, Buttigieg proposed combining South Bend's Code Enforcement, Animal Control, and Building Department into a single Department of Building Services to save costs and improve efficiency.One of Buttigieg's signature programs has been the "Vacant and Abandoned Properties Initiative".
But we can no longer sell out our deepest values for the sake of fossil fuel access and lucrative business deals. "In August 2019, Buttigieg released a $300 billion plan to expand mental health care services and fight addiction.Buttigieg has said Trump has been reckless in sending American troops to the southern border, and that it is a measure of last resort.During his 2020 campaign for the Democratic nomination, Buttigieg proposed spending $1 trillion on U.S. infrastructure projects over the next 10 years, estimating that the plan would create at least 6 million jobs. politician and former 2020 presidential candidateSpeculations about higher office and national political involvementGovernment reform, voting rights, and campaign financeSpeculations about higher office and national political involvementGovernment reform, voting rights, and campaign financeKevin Uhrmacher, Kevin Schaul, Paulina Firozi and Jeff Stein, Known locally as "1,000 Properties in 1,000 Days", it is a project to repair or demolish blighted properties across South Bend.Buttigieg served for seven months in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve, returning to the United States on September 23, 2014.In 2014, Buttigieg announced that he would seek a second term.In a new phase of the Vacant and Abandoned Properties Initiative, South Bend partnered with the Notre Dame Clinical Law Center to provide free legal assistance to qualifying applicants wishing to acquire vacant lots and, with local nonprofits, to repair or construct homes and provide low-income home ownership assistance using South Bend HUD (In 2013, Buttigieg proposed a "Smart Streets" urban development program to improve South Bend's downtown area,Under Buttigieg, South Bend invested $50 million in the city's parks, many of which had been neglected during the preceding decades;By 2019, the city had seen $374 million in private investment for In January 2019, Buttigieg launched the South Bend Home Repair initiative. Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and Afghanistan War veteran.
The city's first ever As mayor, Buttigieg promoted the transformation of the former Studebaker plant location into a technology park named One of the major private developments to go through the city's approval process during Buttigieg's first term was a pair of seven-story condominiums along the Buttigieg was a leading figure behind the creation of a nightly laser-light display along downtown South Bend's St. Joseph River trail as public art. Before running for office, Buttigieg worked on the Buttigieg was valedictorian of the class of 2000 at Before graduating from college, Buttigieg was an investigative intern at After earning his Oxford degree, in 2007 Buttigieg became a consultant at the Chicago office of In 2011, as South Bend's mayor-elect, Buttigieg supported In 2012, after a federal investigation ruled that South Bend police had illegally recorded telephone calls of several officers, Buttigieg demoted police chief Darryl Boykins.Buttigieg has written that his "first serious mistake as mayor" came shortly after taking office in 2012, when he decided to ask for Boykins's resignation.