Mary Jobaida supports truly affordable housing for the most vulnerable New Yorkers, freezing rents for stabilized apartments, and establishing land trusts and other social housing models to secure affordability through community ownership of real estate. She also supports tenant protections and help for struggling homeowners, including transferring tax-break benefits from big developers to small homeowners who live where they rent, providing city assistance for needed upgrades, and allocating support for building and maintaining Community Land Trusts.

Mary Jobaida supports public safety and justice for immigrants, as listed among her goals on her campaign website.

Mary Jobaida supports funding long-delayed upgrades to NYC’s sewer system, funding climate-resiliency infrastructure including rain gardens and green roofs, and pressuring NYSERDA to permit Rise Light & Power’s alternative energy conversion to shut down polluting stacks at the Ravenswood Generating Station.

Mary Jobaida supports fully funding quality child care and education from 3K to college, extending paid parental leave to 2 years, and providing more skills-based training in trade and vocational schools. She also supports free quality education through college (Free SUNY and CUNY).

Mary Jobaida supports workers' rights and local business support, as listed among her goals on her campaign website.

Mary Jobaida supports fully funding NYCHA, reforming its work order system so tickets are not closed without proper and timely resolution, and allowing rent withholding if basic needs aren’t met, as is the right for NYC private renters. She also advocates for affordable housing tenants to receive all protections given to private renters.

Mary Jobaida supports the New York Health Act (Medicare for All at the state level), which she says would save NYS billions per year, cover everyone, and allow drug price negotiations. She advocates putting the NY Health Act up for a vote, protecting home-care workers and disabled community members by recruiting, training and paying workers adequately, protecting access to gender-affirming healthcare for Trans New Yorkers, and fully funding community healthcare centers for preventative services.

Mary Jobaida supports expanding youth mental health support, employment and entertainment/enrichment services, expressly transferring funding and authority from police to community mental health response, and funding restorative justice and diversion programs.

Mary Jobaida supports universal rent control including for businesses under a certain size, partnerships with government to secure low-cost funding and guidance for struggling businesses, and establishing local Small Business Advisory Boards to advocate for local needs outside of big-business-dominated Chambers of Commerce.

Mary Jobaida supports fully funded public transportation, as listed among her goals on her campaign website.