• Climate

  Supports stopping backsliding on climate commitments, blocking fossil fuel projects, and implementing cap-and-invest. Advocates for regulating utilities to prevent onerous rate hikes, deploying solar and wind energy, electrifying the grid, and stopping abuse of the grid by big tech data centers and cryptomining.

• Healthcare

  Supports passing the New York Health Act to create a single-payer system. Also advocates for lowering medical costs through transparency, reducing waste, preventing corporate consolidation, and protecting critical care from MAGA attempts to ban and defund them.

• Housing

  Supports building more homes of all types, including public housing and community-owned social housing, to lower rents. Advocates for strengthening tenant protections, right to counsel in housing court, and ending needless reauthorizations for SCRIE and DRIE. Also aims to lower home ownership costs by cracking down on insurance companies, reforming property taxes, and subsidizing co-op greening.

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

• Thriving Arts and Culture

  Supports increasing funding for arts and cultural organizations, ensuring accessibility for low-income residents, creating dedicated worker protections for artists, and experimenting with guaranteed income to enable artistic creation.

• Universal Childcare

  Supports creating universal, affordable childcare for all children 6 weeks and older to lower costs for families and grow the economy.

• Justice for All

  Supports safely reducing the incarcerated population, strategically approaching prison consolidation to create safer conditions, and investing in data-backed crime prevention programs like making the Summer Youth Employment Program universal.

• A Government that Delivers

  Supports a laser focus on delivery by centrally tracking how quickly benefits like housing vouchers and food stamps are delivered, and reforming civil service to allow agencies to hire quickly and effectively.

• Ending Street Homelessness

  Supports ending street homelessness by increasing psychiatric beds, supportive housing, Safe Haven shelters, and stabilization beds. Opposes encampment sweeps as a solution. Advocates for stronger pathways to housing and healthcare with coordinated case management, and passing Daniel's Law to send mental health professionals instead of police to people in crisis.