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1. Defending and protecting New Yorkers' rights in face of the Trump administration. It’s important at this time of growing government cynicism that the next borough president be part of bringing honesty, integrity and openness to City Hall. 2. Improving quality of life, with a focus on public safety and transit. 3. Creating more housing that working families can afford.

There’s no question: Donald Trump has set his sights on New York -- attacking congestion pricing, blackmailing law firms, & threatening our elected officials with criminal charges. I will continue to organize, fight against the Trump agenda, & protect Manhattanites as your BP.

To address quality of life, I will create a dashboard on the BP's website to collect data of 311 complaints and their outcome. This would be an important advocacy tool to highlight disparities of city services across the borough and a practical measure to assist constituents who aren’t getting satisfactory responses.

As BP, I will support the creation of all types of housing to make Manhattan a place where working people can afford to live. The City and State should use bonding authority to work with non-profit developers to build more affordable housing (and it should be 100% affordable on public land), protect rent-regulated tenants and small landlords by strengthening housing courts, and cut red tape.

I’d seek to employ a real estate financial analyst to help review land use applications and ensure that new housing being built will be affordable for working people. That analyst will help to answer the age-old question that I remember from when I served on a community board: How much profit is a developer reaping from a deal?

I will create a Public School Parent Resource and Advocacy Center that helps parents in low-income Manhattan communities navigate the frustratingly complicated public school enrollment process while advancing strategies to integrate our public schools, as well as advocate for the special needs of the student population, including dyslexia.

I will use our office as a hub to organize tenants by establishing the Manhattan Tenants Union. There are countless Manhattan residents in buildings that should be organized to know their rights, especially with the advent of Good Cause Eviction protections.

As Borough President, I’d like to solve our housing crisis here in Manhattan. If Manhattan wants to remain one of the best places to raise a family, to be a safe haven for LGBTQ+ individuals, and to be a place where working people can afford to live, we must create more housing that working families can afford and we must tackle the homelessness crisis by advocating for increased supportive housing.

The biggest barrier to the creation of affordable housing in Manhattan is the scarcity of City- and State-owned land, which is why it is important to maximize housing opportunities like at 5 WTC and the former Bayview Women's Correctional Facility in my Senate district in Chelsea, both of which are increasingly rare and extremely important. Housing should be 100% affordable on City- and State-owned land. There is a lot of red tape that needs to be cut in order to tackle the housing crisis. As BP, I would look to update outdated zoning laws and regulations — some of which date to the 1870s — that create unnecessary barriers to the creation of and conversion to housing.