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Climate

Furhan Ahmad emphasizes that climate change exacerbates health, housing, and quality-of-life issues. He supports preparing communities for extreme heat, flooding, and other climate-related emergencies, and ensuring infrastructure and housing are climate-resilient.

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Healthcare

Furhan Ahmad supports expanding healthcare access, protecting seniors from rising costs, protecting and expanding gender-affirming care, and modernizing outdated laws such as the HIV Decriminalization Act. He emphasizes preventive care and climate-resilient healthcare infrastructure.

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Housing

Furhan Ahmad supports strong rent protections, good cause eviction protections, housing vouchers, supportive housing for LGBTQ+ youth and people experiencing homelessness, and helping seniors age in place with home modifications and care services. He also emphasizes climate-resilient housing.

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Labor

Furhan Ahmad supports firefighters, EMTs, nurses, and public workers by advocating for fair pensions, benefits, and contracts. He views supporting workers as a quality-of-life and public safety priority.

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Mental Health Investment

Furhan Ahmad supports expanding non-police mental health crisis response and investing in upstream supports to prevent crises. He also notes that climate-related disasters create mental health tolls that response systems must be ready for.

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Public Safety & Criminal Justice Reform

Furhan Ahmad advocates for a public safety system grounded in real-world experience, rejecting political extremes. He supports expanding non-police mental health crisis response, addressing substance use as a public health challenge, and ensuring fairness alongside safety.

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LGBTQ+ Rights and Gender-Affirming Care

Furhan Ahmad supports protecting and expanding gender-affirming care, defending providers and patients from political interference, and ensuring Medicaid covers affirming services. He also supports safe housing for LGBTQ+ youth.

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Protect Small Businesses and Cultural Spaces

Furhan Ahmad supports giving commercial tenants rent stabilization, tax relief, and protections against arbitrary displacement. He also emphasizes helping small businesses survive climate disruptions.

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Protect Seniors

Furhan Ahmad supports expanding rent protections and Medicare coverage so seniors can stay in their homes and afford medications and home care. He also emphasizes climate-resilient buildings for seniors.

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Substance Use Treatment and Public Health

Furhan Ahmad advocates treating substance use as a public health challenge, expanding access to treatment, creating clear pathways to recovery, and restoring public spaces for everyone. He opposes treating open-air drug use solely as an enforcement issue.

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No public position yet on Education, Immigration, Reproductive Rights, Transportation, Voting Rights & Election Reform, Elections, AI, Tech & Privacy, LGBTQ+ Protections, Animal Wellness & Subsidy Reform, Animal Welfare, Arts, Thriving Arts and Culture, Universal Childcare, Civil Rights, Courts, Justice for All, Disability & Accessibility, Government Transparency & Ethics, A Government that Delivers, Government Transparency, Innovation & Job Creation, Ending Street Homelessness, LGBTQIA+, Preserving Neighborhood Character, Revenue, Dignity for Aging and Disabled Neighbors, Sexual Violence Prevention, Economic Equality, Solving Traffic Violence

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