VOTE411 Voter Guide

Anti-displacement, Healthcare and Workers' Rights, and Climate Change

Anti-Displacement: My focus is on building affordable housing that is truly affordable for our communities, such as the 100% affordable development I advocated for that is now open on Broome Street. I am committed to protecting NYCHA Section 9 residents by opposing the conversion to RAD/PACT and the Trust. I will also advocate for land use policies that prevent luxury developments from displacing our neighbors, ensure that every tenant has a secure lease and a safe home, and that laws that were put in place to protect tenants are actually enforced. My office has been extremely successful in stopping illegal evictions by ensuring that tenants know their rights, are able to find lawyers, and even have my council’s staff join them in housing court when needed. We have also supported community coalitions against luxury towers that have been forced onto neighborhoods by hosting town halls, rallies, and negotiating with developers. Healthcare & Workers’ Rights: Home care workers, many of whom are immigrant women, caring for our elders should not be forced to work 24-hour shifts. I am proud to be the sponsor of the No More 24 Act to end these brutal working conditions, which has grown into a citywide movement against long working hours and the corrosion of the 8-hour workday. At the same time, retirees who worked for New York City are now having their promised Medicare coverage stripped from them–as Eric Adams is trying to force them to switch to Medicare Advantage. This move can deny healthcare coverage, make people’s doctors out of network, while allowing insurance companies to make more money, so I introduced Intro 1096 to stop the transition. These two issues impact millions of New Yorkers and demonstrate how our health and workers rights are under threat. Climate Change: I am dedicated to creating more green spaces in our communities, prioritizing parks and community gardens over concrete playgrounds or toxic paved-over sites. I will advocate for planting trees in every corner of the district and investing in community composting and resilience projects that are community-driven and environmentally sustainable. In my 3.5 years in office, I have been able to achieve many of these goals, opening 2 new parks, defending Elizabeth Street Garden from destruction, and planting 500 new street trees.

My top three priorities in the first 100 days will be pushing for the Chinatown Working Group rezoning plan with the next mayoral administration, to increase funding for resiliency projects, and to pass the No More 24 Act to end the suffering of home care workers.

Even before I came into office, I have supported community-based rezoning plans that protect our neighborhoods, create truly affordable housing, and make sure that real estate developers don't have free reign to build empty skyscrapers that displace longtime tenants and small businesses. From Chinatown/the Lower East Side to the Seaport and Tribeca soon, the community has introduced rezoning plans tailored to their historic neighborhoods that I am fully supportive of passing.

Even in this re-election, we can see how real estate developers and their supporters try many different tactics to continue to build luxury housing that is not affordable to the residents of Lower Manhattan. I will continue to advocate for what my constituents need: truly affordable housing, not the luxury towers that developers want to build.

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