Erik Martin Dilan

Dilan supports universal, free childcare for children under 5, as proposed by Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul. He has worked to expand pre-K and 3-K throughout New York and is working to reopen the shuttered Audrey Johnson and John Coker Day Care centers in North Brooklyn.

Christian Celeste Tate

Tate supports fully funding public schools, filling shortages of teachers and counselors, supporting restorative justice programs, adopting sex and consent education, and rejecting unfunded mandates that strain educators.

Erik Martin Dilan

Dilan opposes cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies, and defends safety-net and public hospitals. He supports fixing nurse staffing shortages, closing insurance coverage gaps for young people, immigrants, and freelancers, and backed the state’s billion-dollar investment in expanding mental health care.

Christian Celeste Tate

Tate believes healthcare is a human right and supports passing the New York Health Act for universal healthcare, fully funding hospitals that serve the community, and protecting access to abortions, gender-affirming care, and maternity supports.

Erik Martin Dilan

Erik Dilan prioritizes protecting tenants and keeping homes affordable. He led the fight to pass the strongest rent laws in a generation, chaired the Housing & Buildings Committee on the City Council, and supports legislation to bring more lower- and middle-income homes to Brooklyn and keep private equity investors out of the market for small homes and rentals.

Christian Celeste Tate

Tate supports creating a Social Housing Development Authority to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable homes statewide, expanding Good Cause eviction protections, defending rent stabilization, passing the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act to support tenant organizing, expanding the cease and desist zone, and adopting a tax on speculative home flipping to fight displacement.