NY Assembly · Assembly District 65

Tenant organizer and former semiconductor engineer vie for open Lower Manhattan seat

No incumbent is running for this seat covering Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Democrat Illapa Sairitupac won the June 23 primary with 36.5%, and Republican Helen Qiu advanced after her party's primary was canceled; both lost to Grace Lee here in 2022.

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Illapa Sairitupac

Tenant organizer at the Cooper Square Committee since 2022; also works with the This Land is Ours Community Land Trust in Lower Manhattan

Housing — Wants the state to create a Social Housing Development Authority to expand affordable housing, expand rent stabilization statewide through the REST Act, and let tenants buy their apartments through the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Also backs ending single-family zoning and parking requirements to allow more housing construction.