What are the priorities for the next few years?
PIRGIMs priority is to protect the public interest by advocating and organizing around issues that are important to Michiganders. Recently, most of our work on and off campus has focused on issues surrounding tenants rights, consumer protection, affordable higher education, the environment, and democracy issues. Our top priority is expanding the rights of renters a lot of students are forced to pay too much for housing that is sub-standard with very few services from their landlord. PIRGIM is committed to bringing stronger tenants rights to Ann Arbor through a renters rights hotline and an advocacy program to help renters in trouble. We are also fighting for an affordable higher education for all Michigan students, stopping the destruction of Michigans open space, and working to lower the costs of textbooks for students. Q: Do students on each chapter decide what issues to work on? A: Yes. Students pick the campaigns every year both on the statewide level and on each individual campus.
