• Healthcare

  Jacky Wong affirms healthcare as a basic right, aiming to keep coverage affordable and accessible by strengthening the New York State of Health marketplace, protecting the Essential Plan, expanding funding for hospitals and community health centers, and improving enrollment and renewal processes. He also focuses on streamlining Medicaid recertification for seniors, strengthening oversight of home care programs, prioritizing home and community-based care, and expanding training for home care workers.

• Public Safety

  Jacky Wong supports investing in neighborhood policing with improved responsiveness and consistent presence, expanding language access and cultural competency in law enforcement, ensuring adequate staffing so citywide events do not reduce routine policing, strengthening enforcement against illegal gun trafficking with interagency task forces and gun tracing, and fixing the shelter system with fair distribution, transparent siting, and oversight focused on permanent housing outcomes.

• Immigration

  Jacky Wong supports protecting NYCHA and Section 8 residents including mixed-status families from displacement, expanding Know-Your-Rights education and legal outreach, advancing legislation to require judicial warrants for commercial spaces to prevent unlawful ICE enforcement, expanding language access across government agencies, strengthening outreach to immigrant communities, and investing in grassroots organizations as trusted points of contact.

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

• Affordable Housing

  Jacky Wong supports building more affordable housing through mid-density development, increasing affordability requirements beyond 25% under the 485X tax credit program, advancing 100% affordable housing on public land, and converting underutilized hotels and offices into permanent affordable housing. He also advocates for protecting NYCHA tenants with a 'NYCHA Tenants First' approach to RAD/PACT conversions, standing with Mitchell-Lama tenants against unreasonable rent increases, expanding SCRIE and DRIE access, and protecting co-ops from rising costs through property tax stability and support for Local Law 97 compliance.

• SNAP Benefits Modernization

  Jacky Wong supports upgrading SNAP cards with secure chip technology to prevent fraud and theft, restoring reimbursement for victims of benefit theft, supporting local programs for families to recover lost assistance, and improving coordination and oversight to prevent fraud while ensuring timely access to benefits.

• LGBTQ Health and Gender-Affirming Care

  Jacky Wong supports protecting access to medically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender adults under state law, regardless of federal policy changes, and maintaining funding and access to LGBTQ health programs including mental health, HIV prevention and treatment, and supportive services.