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State Assembly Member - District 38

David Orkin

Democratic

An immigrant workers' rights attorney and union organizer from Ridgewood who previously worked at Make the Road New York, where coworkers elected him to the bargaining committee of UAW Local 2320.

Housing costs, tenants and homeowners

Wants a Social Housing Development Authority to build permanently affordable, union-built housing, full funding for NYCHA and an expanded Housing Access Voucher Program. Also backs stronger Good Cause Eviction protections statewide, a right to counsel for tenants in housing court and tenants' first right to buy their buildings.

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