His whole campaign is the 'Uplift Economy' — 'New York is too expensive. Rent is too high, groceries cost too much.' Tax relief for working people, fighting corporate price-gouging, and investing in 'the things that lower costs over time: housing, transit, healthcare, and jobs.'

Three planks: limit how much housing large institutional investors can buy, increase federal funding for affordable housing, and strengthen tenant protections — plus letting veterans use VA loans for co-ops.

A more market-oriented take: Health Savings Accounts for everyone and subsidies flowing directly to hospitals rather than insurers, to prevent financial ruin from a diagnosis.

Backs a more humane system, protecting H-1B workers facing layoffs from deportation and expanding legal and language services; frames immigrants as economic drivers.

As a software engineer, focuses on workers: protections against layoffs and 'algorithmic discrimination in hiring, housing, lending, healthcare, and criminal justice,' plus retraining.

Pairs gun-violence reduction with investment in mental health care.