NY Assembly · Assembly District 54

Wants to create a state Social Housing Development Authority to build permanently affordable homes statewide, expand Good Cause eviction protections, defend rent stabilization and pass the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Backs a tax on speculative home flipping, and says fighting displacement means standing up to the real estate lobby.

Wants to pass the New York for All Act to bar state agencies from collaborating with ICE, adopt Access to Representation legislation guaranteeing every New Yorker an immigration lawyer in deportation cases, and pass the MELT Act to bar law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while on duty.

Wants to improve public safety through community investment and prevention, addressing generational cycles of poverty and inequality: funding violence interruption programs and expanding access to mental health care and substance abuse counseling. Supports abolishing forced labor in New York prisons and enforcing the HALT Act's limits on solitary confinement.

Supports passing the New York Health Act to create universal health care in New York.

Supports no-cost child care, 3-K and pre-K statewide. Wants to make CUNY tuition-free through the New Deal for CUNY, and backs the REPAIR Act, which he says would make private colleges pay their fair share.

Supports a $30 minimum wage, a state-level ABC test to reclassify independent contractors as employees, amending the Taylor Law to allow public employees to strike, and passing the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act to enforce labor standards.

Supports the Not on Our Dime Act to bar New York nonprofits from funding Israeli settlements, which he calls illegal, and human rights abuses, and wants to end training collaborations between the NYPD and Israeli forces.