Hankins advocates for equitable, fully funded public schools, expanded mental health supports, counselors, after-school programs, career and technical pathways, paid internships, workforce pipelines, accessible special education services, and treating early childhood education as essential infrastructure.

Hankins supports stronger oversight of hospital and insurance costs, lowering out-of-pocket expenses, expanding access to primary care and mental health services, protecting safety-net care, and treating healthcare as a right.

Hankins supports strengthening tenant protections, expanding rent stabilization, and increasing enforcement against rent gouging. He advocates for community ownership models like limited-equity cooperatives and pushing state investment into permanently affordable housing.

Hankins supports protecting gender-affirming healthcare and bodily autonomy, strengthening anti-discrimination protections in housing, employment, and public life, ensuring safe and inclusive schools free from bullying and censorship, and supporting resources for LGBTQ+ youth, seniors, and families.

Hankins supports union organizing, contract campaigns, and strikes; stronger enforcement against wage theft and workplace abuses; prevailing wage standards; responsible contracting with public dollars; and policies that make it easier to organize and harder for employers to retaliate.

Hankins defends reproductive freedom, including access to abortion, contraception, and comprehensive reproductive healthcare. He supports strengthening privacy protections for patients and providers, expanding access for low-income communities, and maternal health initiatives to address racial disparities.