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Councilmember Mary Sheffield has a 12-year record of both legislative wins and compromises on issues like housing and worker protections.

Sheffield's most ambitious proposals often faced resistance from Mayor Mike Duggan's administration, leading to scaled-back versions of her plans.

Key achievements include ordinances to provide free legal aid for tenants facing eviction and to ease barriers to property tax exemptions.

Some of her major proposals, such as tying water rates to income and expanding local hiring requirements, were never formally introduced due to legal obstacles.

In 2018, with thousands of Detroit households facing water shutoffs or tax foreclosures , a then-31-year-old Councilmember Mary Sheffield stood before city hall to unveil the "People’s B

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