Rhonda Hamilton
Independent · DC
Founder and executive director of M.I. Mother's Keeper, a mental health nonprofit, and a former real estate broker who owned a Coldwell Banker franchise in Prince George's County. Her priorities are housing stability, health care, and reducing economic disparities for small businesses.
Where Rhonda Hamilton stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (7 records), Government Efficiency (2 records), Social Programs and Welfare (2 records)
Opposes
Government Spending Reduction (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 7 support
Testified to the DC Council that city housing inspections still left tenants with rodents, mold, and no heat. She criticized the STRONG Homes Amendment Act of 2025 for leaving enforcement mostly to the Attorney General without enough oversight.
December 5, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: lims.dccouncil.gov
Promoted a proposed DC tenant bill, the HEART Act, to create a housing repair fund paid for by landlord fines and a 10-cent tax per rental unit. She also asked DC's buildings agency to inspect eight whole apartment properties.
July 17, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: streetsensemedia.org
Testified in support of a DC bill to strengthen mental health crisis care and hospital commitment rules (B25-0692). She warned that letting doctors admit patients to hospitals they refer to risked overuse and patient abuse.
July 11, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: lims.dccouncil.gov
Testified at a DC Council hearing on the city's broken rental housing inspection system. She told members their review was only a first step and that tenants in unsafe homes could not wait for fixes.
January 18, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: streetsensemedia.org
Testified at a DC Council roundtable on youth behavioral health. She said Ward 8 community centers were underfunded and schools had only about 39 counselors for 20,000 students.
December 13, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: lims.dccouncil.gov
Testified to the DC Council that city building inspectors had worked with her group to press apartment owners over mold, asbestos, no heat, and rodents in tenants' homes.
February 23, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: healthydcandme.org
Co-hosted a Healthy DC and Me Coalition meeting at Mayfair Mansions in Ward 7 on gaps in health care, grocery access, and emergency trauma care for Wards 7 and 8.
September 10, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: washingtoninformer.com
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 2 support
Testified to the DC Council that city housing inspections still left tenants with rodents, mold, and no heat. She criticized the STRONG Homes Amendment Act of 2025 for leaving enforcement mostly to the Attorney General without enough oversight.
December 5, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: lims.dccouncil.gov
Testified at a DC Council hearing on the city's broken rental housing inspection system. She told members their review was only a first step and that tenants in unsafe homes could not wait for fixes.
January 18, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: streetsensemedia.org
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 1 oppose
Promoted a proposed DC tenant bill, the HEART Act, to create a housing repair fund paid for by landlord fines and a 10-cent tax per rental unit. She also asked DC's buildings agency to inspect eight whole apartment properties.
July 17, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: streetsensemedia.org
Track record — Social Programs and Welfare
Social Programs and Welfare · 2 support
Testified at a DC Council roundtable on youth behavioral health. She said Ward 8 community centers were underfunded and schools had only about 39 counselors for 20,000 students.
December 13, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: lims.dccouncil.gov
Publicly criticized DC's homeless encampment clearing pilot after a city loader struck a homeless person, saying the city was robbing unhoused people of their dignity.
October 6, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: washingtoninformer.com
Track record — General
General · 2 records
Led M.I. Mother's Keeper, a DC mental health charity, as its unpaid president. Its 2022 federal tax return, filed June 4, 2023, reported $31,050 in revenue and $34,360 in spending.
June 4, 2023
Source: projects.propublica.org
Lost the November 2022 DC mayoral general election as a registered write-in candidate. The Board of Elections did not count her votes separately because a candidate on the ballot got more votes.
November 8, 2022
Source: electionresults.dcboe.org
Past race Rhonda Hamilton ran in:
- Mayor · November 3, 2026 · Washington city, District of Columbia