Nine candidates for the District 7 city council seat came to a forum in Roxbury last week to introduce themselves to an audience of about 200 constituents. The district includes parts of the Fenway and South End, and Roxbury.

The candidates had unanimous or nearly unanimous perspectives on nearly all questions asked by the forum’s moderators.

The forum’s participants were Said Abdikarim, Mavrick Afonso, Said Ahmed, WaWa Bell, Miniard Culpepper, Samuel Hurtado, Jerome King, Roy Owens, and Natalie Juba Sutherland.

In a rapid-fire round, in which candidates were asked to write “Yes” or “No” on a white placard and silently respond to a series of questions, candidates unanimously responded that they would support rent control, and that they supported the city’s current inclusionary zoning policy, which requires that 20 percent of units in market rate developments be income restricted.

Candidates also unanimously responded “Yes” to sponsoring city council amendments that would increase the funding available for the city’s participatory budgeting pilot, and nearly unanimously that they would support a fully elected school committee and abolishing the Boston Police Department gang database, with only one person responding “No” for each question.

The only yes or no question that did not result in a consensus was whether candidates supported leasing White Stadium to a professional soccer team. Abdikarim, Ahmed, Afonso and Culpepper responded yes. The five remaining candidates responded no.

The forum did not include audience questions, but each candidate was asked two open-ended questions and given 60 seconds to respond. When asked what they would do to make District 7 more affordable, three candidates said that they would advocate for the development of more affordable housing. Two candidates talked about promoting ownership over renting, and two more candidates talked about educating the community so that they wouldn’t get pushed out of their housing by major developers.

When asked what they would do to support immigrant communities targeted by ICE, five candidates spoke about community support.

Two more suggested providing financial support to get immigrants legal help, and another said she would build bridges with local law enforcement so immigrants felt safe to approach them. The final candidate spoke instead about congestion pricing.

After the District 7 forum, the event also featured a second candidate forum for city councilors at-large, who represent the city as a whole as opposed to a singular district. The eight candidates consisted of five current or former city councilors, including the four at-large city councilors currently in office, two mayoral employees, and one Marine.

In response to open questions about affordability and ICE, most candidates again spoke about housing, and increasing both community and legal support for immigrants. They were also asked about how to better enforce the city’s PILOT program, which allows tax-exempt organizations like universities or museums to make voluntary cash payments and invest in community services. Multiple candidates suggested more oversight in order to increase participating organizations’ transparency, like requiring them to name exactly what community programs they had invested in.

In response to an open-ended question about bike and bus lanes, and a murmur through the crowd, every candidate responded that they supported the concepts but thought that the city should have taken a better, more community centered approach to installing them.

In the rapid-fire section, the at-large candidates were slightly less unanimous. Two councilors said they would not support rent control. Three said they would not support a fully elected school committee. Three said they did not support abolishing the gang database. One candidate, former city councilor Frank Baker, consistently voted no.