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.

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.

David Siffert supports universal childcare and afterschool that is actually funded and available, fixing Tier 6 to provide benefits comparable to Tier 4, increasing pay for paraprofessionals, changing liability rules so schools can donate leftover food instead of throwing it away, and guaranteeing translators at parent-teacher conferences.

David Siffert supports passing the New York For All Act to make New York a sanctuary state, the Access to Representation Act guaranteeing counsel for those facing deportation, banning ICE from state and municipal property without a judicial warrant, and creating a private right of action for constitutional violations during immigration enforcement.

David Siffert supports fixing Tier 6 for fair retirement benefits, restricting employer surveillance of workers, passing the Fair Pricing Act to prevent hospital gouging, passing the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act to strengthen wage law enforcement, supporting legislation protecting union organizers from retaliatory lawsuits, and convening tech companies and unions to develop a vision for employment in the age of AI.

David Siffert supports passing the Health Information Privacy Act, expanding the New York Abortion Access Fund, defending and expanding New York's shield laws for reproductive healthcare, strictly regulating 'crisis pregnancy centers', expanding protections for pregnant incarcerated people, expanding Medicaid coverage for maternity patients and newborns, and enacting comprehensive privacy laws for people seeking reproductive healthcare.

David Siffert supports 6-minute service for every subway line, prioritizing funding for MTA signal upgrades, expanding protected bike lanes and daylighting at intersections, enforcing traffic laws on bikes and e-bikes while holding delivery apps responsible for unsafe time pressures, championing fast and free buses with expanded bus lanes, and continuing to support congestion pricing with rebates for in-district residents and increased prices for Ubers and Lyfts.

David Siffert supports passing a constitutional amendment for same-day voter registration, reforming the NYC Board of Elections, and restoring voting rights for incarcerated New Yorkers.

David Siffert supports banning biometric surveillance (facial recognition, gait analysis, voice recognition), regulating data brokers to end sale of location and health data, requiring AI transparency and accountability for decisions on jobs/housing/loans, requiring pre-deployment safety audits for AI systems, restricting workplace surveillance, passing the Health Information Privacy Act, and banning invasive surveillance technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

David Siffert supports re-passing the FOIL Timeline Act to require agencies to respond to public records requests on a timeline, making it easier to recover attorneys' fees when agencies unreasonably deny FOIL requests, reforming the FOIL appeals process, and strengthening open meetings requirements.

David Siffert supports creating a private right of action for anyone denied gender-affirming care in a New York State healthcare institution, making it easier for non-biological parents in gay marriages to obtain parental rights, the Healthy and Safe Students Act for LGBTQIA+-inclusive sex education, the GIRDS Act to protect incarcerated transgender New Yorkers, and a gender-affirming care fund modeled after the abortion access fund.

David Siffert supports passing the Heirs Act to tax inherited wealth, increasing income taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and corporations, reforming property taxes to provide relief for low- and middle-income families while increasing taxes on the wealthiest, and rejecting regressive taxes that burden working families.