David Siffert

David Siffert supports fully funding the CLCPA to meet emissions targets, making large electricity consumers pay higher rates, building large-scale solar capacity, funding community solar, navigating obstacles to build offshore wind, passing the Stop Funding Polluter Handouts Act to end fossil fuel subsidies, ending construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure, passing the rest of the NY HEAT Act, fighting for flood protection for waterfront communities, and fighting for more green spaces.

Benjamin Yee

Ben Yee advocates for lowering costs by making the biggest polluters pay their fair share instead of working people footing the bill for fossil fuel expansion, building a more resilient grid, and stopping locking into the past.

Furhan Ahmad

Furhan Ahmad emphasizes that climate change exacerbates health, housing, and quality-of-life issues. He supports preparing communities for extreme heat, flooding, and other climate-related emergencies, and ensuring infrastructure and housing are climate-resilient.

David Siffert

David Siffert supports defending Medicaid from cuts, passing the Health Information Privacy Act, ensuring affordable insurance on health exchanges, holding health systems accountable for hospital closures, and championing reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare access.

Benjamin Yee

Ben Yee states that rising costs, hospital closures, and unchecked consolidation have left communities without necessary care, and that healthcare must serve patients and reduce emergencies, not just manage them more expensively.

Furhan Ahmad

Furhan Ahmad supports expanding healthcare access, protecting seniors from rising costs, protecting and expanding gender-affirming care, and modernizing outdated laws such as the HIV Decriminalization Act. He emphasizes preventive care and climate-resilient healthcare infrastructure.

David Siffert

David Siffert supports a 10x increase to the Housing Access Voucher Program, a residential vacancy tax on empty units, passage of the Social Housing Development Authority Act, reducing street homelessness with supportive housing, statewide right to counsel for eviction, closing Good Cause Eviction loopholes, requiring landlord accessibility accommodations, and requiring cooling systems in apartments.

Benjamin Yee

Ben Yee supports a vacancy tax, pied-à-terre tax, using state land for at least 50% affordable housing, creating a dedicated affordable housing fund, replacing AMI with cost of living metrics, restoring home rule for NYC housing policy, requiring regional transportation plans to reduce rent pressure, increasing mandatory affordable housing for tax breaks to 35%, providing grants for municipal development plans, and strengthening tenant protections including ending the housing court blacklist, housing access vouchers, housing court reform, and fully funding right-to-counsel.

Furhan Ahmad

Furhan Ahmad supports strong rent protections, good cause eviction protections, housing vouchers, supportive housing for LGBTQ+ youth and people experiencing homelessness, and helping seniors age in place with home modifications and care services. He also emphasizes climate-resilient housing.