• Climate

  David Siffert supports fully funding the CLCPA to meet emissions targets, making large electricity consumers pay higher rates, building large-scale solar capacity, funding community solar, navigating obstacles to build offshore wind, passing the Stop Funding Polluter Handouts Act to end fossil fuel subsidies, ending construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure, passing the rest of the NY HEAT Act, fighting for flood protection for waterfront communities, and fighting for more green spaces.

• Healthcare

  David Siffert supports defending Medicaid from cuts, passing the Health Information Privacy Act, ensuring affordable insurance on health exchanges, holding health systems accountable for hospital closures, and championing reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare access.

• Housing

  David Siffert supports a 10x increase to the Housing Access Voucher Program, a residential vacancy tax on empty units, passage of the Social Housing Development Authority Act, reducing street homelessness with supportive housing, statewide right to counsel for eviction, closing Good Cause Eviction loopholes, requiring landlord accessibility accommodations, and requiring cooling systems in apartments.

Issues David is raising that aren't a shared debate across the field.

• Animal Welfare

  David Siffert supports passing legislation banning sale of products produced in violation of animal cruelty laws, regulating tethering of dogs outdoors, banning fur products, banning glue traps, banning commercial octopus farming, giving students plant-based options in school meals, reducing subsidies for the horse racing industry and redirecting funds to affordable housing and education, increasing funding for the Companion Animal Capital Fund, creating a fund for shelters holding animals as evidence in criminal cases, funding high-volume low-cost spay/neuter operations, building more wildlife bridges, and creating stipends for wildlife rehabilitators.

• Arts

  David Siffert supports increasing funding for the arts specifically to help artists afford to live in New York, and modifying professional discrimination laws to permit giving artists preference in housing.

• Civil Rights

  David Siffert supports the Justice Roadmap package to combat discrimination in criminal and immigration legal systems, Cecilia's Act for Rights in the Sex Trades, Communities Not Cages to end draconian sentencing, Parole Justice with transparent parole board determinations, the Electronic Communication Privacy Act and Geofence Warrant Ban, a universal private right of action for constitutional violations, limiting law enforcement access to sensitive data, and clemency from the Governor.

• Courts

  David Siffert supports lifting the constitutional cap on Supreme Court justices, requiring judicial screening commissions to ensure judges meet basic qualifications, allowing family court judges to handle divorce proceedings, and providing free brief-period legal services for those who cannot afford a lawyer to navigate the courts.

• Disability & Accessibility

  David Siffert supports repealing the minimum wage exception for disabled employees, setting a 7% target for new state hires with disabilities, introducing legislation to help older New Yorkers age in place with landlord requirements and state funding, and making streets more accessible through daylighting, taxi vouchers for people with disabilities, and adding hand-pedal and recumbent tricycle options for Citibike.