• Affordable Housing

  Jessica Ramos supports strengthening tenant protections, legalizing basement apartments, securing a Green New Deal for Public Housing, and increasing affordable housing stock without privatization. She has pushed for Good Cause Eviction protections and helped pass historic tenant protections in 2019.

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

• Halal and Kosher Food in Correctional Facilities

  Ramos required correctional facilities to provide halal and kosher food options.

• Green New Deal

  Ramos opposes new fossil fuel plants in New York, supports a Green New Deal with union jobs, resilience infrastructure for frontline communities, and a just transition. She stopped the NRG fracked gas peaker plant in Astoria and secured prevailing wage protections in the Environmental Bond Act.

• Working Families & Education

  Ramos passed the Child Poverty Reduction Act to cut child poverty in half, won full $4 billion in foundation aid for public schools, expanded child care subsidy eligibility, and secured funding for universal pre-K. She aims to pass the Early Learning Child Care Act for universal child care covering 93% of families.

• Food Pantry and Library Funding

  Ramos opened a food pantry in the district and restored funding for the Langston Hughes Library.

• Excluded Workers Fund

  Ramos championed the $2.1 billion Excluded Workers Fund providing relief to immigrant and gig workers left out of federal pandemic aid. She aims to extend relief to workers not reached in the first round and fix structural failures in unemployment insurance and the safety net.