Eli Northrup
Affordability
Eli Northrup supports a bold affordability agenda including universal childcare, the New York Health Act for universal healthcare, housing as a human right, lowering grocery costs via the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act, expanding Fair Fares transit affordability, and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1% through the Invest in Our New York package.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Infrastructure & Environmental Justice
Eli Northrup supports defending the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), increasing investment in the Environmental Protection Fund, green schools, a moratorium on new data centers, transitioning to renewable energy (offshore wind, grid expansion), the NY HEAT Act, a statewide cap and invest program, expanding solar access, opposing new fossil fuel infrastructure, opposing nuclear expansion, cracking down on Con Edison rate hikes, supporting a public utilities authority pilot, making public spaces climate-resilient, improving MTA investment and accountability, ensuring transit accessibility, defending congestion pricing, supporting fast and free buses, universal daylighting, and protected bus and bike lanes.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Education & Schools
Eli Northrup supports fixing the Foundation Aid Formula, opposing unchecked charter school growth, expanding community schools, guaranteeing access to free public education regardless of immigration status, green schools, expanding anti-hate and culturally responsive curricula, fair contracts for teachers (including Fix Tier 6), addressing chronic absenteeism, the New Deal for CUNY (tuition-free CUNY, increased operating aid for SUNY/CUNY/community colleges), protecting academic workers' right to organize, and championing the Universal Child Care Act and increased childcare workforce investment.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Healthcare
Eli Northrup supports the New York Health Act for universal single-payer healthcare, expanding the Essential Plan to income-eligible New Yorkers regardless of immigration status, restoring Article 6 funding for NYC's health department, ensuring equal care regardless of ability to pay, protecting patient privacy, ending medical debt, expanding community-based mental health care, investing in mental health services, providing constituent mental health resources, authorizing Overdose Prevention Centers, expanding family-based therapy, protecting abortion access with public funding and requiring insurer coverage, expanding reproductive programs (doula/midwife), guaranteeing Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care, and protecting LGBTQ+ mental health services.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Housing
Eli Northrup supports a statewide right to counsel in eviction proceedings, increased state investment in NYCHA, expanding SCRIE and DRIE programs, strengthening Good Cause Eviction protections, fully establishing the Housing Access Voucher Program, creating a statewide rental registry, allowing municipalities to adopt rent stabilization, giving tenants the right of first refusal when their building is sold, supporting LGBTQ+ elder housing, increasing state contribution to NYC's shelter system, strengthening homelessness prevention programs, educating landlords about vouchers, expanding supportive and licensed housing, creating a New York State Social Housing Development Authority, building more affordable housing with community input, and supporting faith-based affordable housing.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Defending New York & Our Immigrant Communities
Eli Northrup supports abolishing ICE, championing the New York for All Act to cement sanctuary state status, codifying a statewide right to counsel in immigration proceedings (Access to Representation Act, BUILD Act), the Dignity Not Detention Act to prohibit ICE detention contracts, the MELT Act to prohibit immigration authorities from wearing masks, allowing New Yorkers to sue federal officers for constitutional violations, protecting non-citizens' access to public education, prohibiting immigration enforcement on school grounds without a warrant, and pushing for clemency and pardon reform.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Protecting Workers
Eli Northrup supports a minimum wage of $30/hour by 2030, phasing out the tipped minimum wage (One Fair Wage bill), increasing Temporary Disability Insurance benefits, the Unemployment Bridge Program for excluded workers, the EMPIRE Act for whistleblower lawsuits, protecting union organizing, requiring neutrality from state contractors, regulating AI to prevent job displacement and discrimination, and ensuring strong labor standards for delivery workers.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Community Safety & Justice
Eli Northrup supports youth justice reforms (Youth Justice Innovation Fund, #Right2RemainSilent Act, Youth Justice & Opportunities Act), housing as public safety, mental healthcare alternatives to incarceration (Treatment Court Expansion Act), gun violence prevention, adequate lighting in public spaces, the Communities Not Cages campaign to end mass incarceration, parole reform (Elder Parole, Fair & Timely parole), improving prison conditions (abolishing forced labor, establishing wages for incarcerated workers), reentry support, family court reform (informed consent, Family Miranda Rights), and creating a Department of Community Safety.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Regulating AI
Eli Northrup supports regulating AI to prevent job degradation or displacement, encouraging negotiation of AI use with unions, holding companies accountable for software output, and preventing algorithmic hiring and management systems from perpetuating discrimination.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Combating Hate
Eli Northrup supports expanding anti-bias and culturally responsive curricula, maintaining a robust constituent services team to support hate crime victims, championing the Mayor's Department of Community Safety with increased funding for hate crime prevention, and fostering interfaith dialogue.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Invest in Our New York
Eli Northrup supports the Invest in Our New York package to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1% to fund the affordability agenda.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Defending State Resources & Rights
Eli Northrup supports the RECOURSE Act to withhold payments to the federal government if funds are unlawfully blocked, the New York Civil Rights Act to ensure a legal right of action for rights violations, fighting federal threats to SNAP, healthcare, and other benefits (including the SNAP for All Act), and ensuring fair and equal representation through accurate census counts and a dedicated Office of Census Counts.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Lowering Grocery Costs
Eli Northrup supports the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act to prevent price gouging and discriminatory pricing practices for smaller grocers, aiming to lower food costs.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Higher Education
Eli Northrup supports the New Deal for CUNY, making CUNY tuition free, increasing baseline operating aid for SUNY, CUNY, and community colleges, expanding student supports (mental health counseling, food access, academic advising), and protecting academic workers' right to organize and bargain collectively.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Reproductive Rights
Eli Northrup supports guaranteeing public funding for abortion care for all New Yorkers regardless of income or immigration status, requiring all insurers to cover abortion care, supporting patients traveling from states with abortion bans through stronger shield laws, and expanding abortion provider training and doula/midwife programs.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Transit Affordability & Safety
Eli Northrup supports expanding Fair Fares eligibility and automatic enrollment, increasing public outreach about Fair Fares, defending congestion pricing, supporting fast and free buses with protected bus lanes and all-door boarding, universal daylighting, and protected bike lanes.
Eli for NY campaign platform ↗Others running for State Assembly Member - District 69