• Cancel the rent now!
• Increase NYCHA funding and reject the privatization of public housing. Instead expand and increase public housing. Also, conduct a probe into the housing budget and the mismanagement of funds.
• Immediately house the homeless. Now with homelessness on the rise, and imminent mass evictions, it is time to pivot towards a true “Right to Housing/Housing First” approach. End the shelter system, invest in the Homes Guarantee now!
• Highly regulate landlords with universal rent control, rent stabilization, and a transfer of slumlord buildings to tenant ownership.
• Fund a rent forgiveness initiative for those who are still struggling with past-accrued rent due to the pandemic.
• Redefine “affordable” housing and adjust the metrics to make it truly affordable based on tenant income.
• Increase the amount of supportive housing available to the disabled community.
• Conduct a probe into homeless services and end homelessness by making homes (not just shelters) for the homeless population.
• Advocate and lobby congress to implement the Green New Deal for Public Housing, which proposes to install “green retrofits” in over 1 million public housing units, with an aim to significantly reduce emissions and pollution in our neighborhoods, substantially improve the living conditions of our residents and create thousands of green jobs.
• Advocate on behalf of tenants, and help harness tenant power through organizing, supporting and aiding Tenant Associations/Unions and providing space for tenant leaders to be heard in City Council. I will also be a voice against the “Blueprint” which is an unrealistic and overly speculative proposal that offers nothing meaning for NYCHA residents, other than what is deserved and owed. I will advocate for NYCHA residents and for the expansion of public housing against the threat of privatization.
• Reject the “Blueprint” which is an unrealistic and overly speculative proposal that offers nothing meaningful for NYCHA residents, other than what is deserved and owed.
• Propose a pied-a-terres tax and a tax on all vacant housing. These taxes are important for our overall goal to house New Yorkers who need housing, wherever housing is available. I will funnel that money into programs for the public good, especially affordable housing.
• Require landlords to make fully accessible apartments and to upgrade current apartments to be fully accessible.

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