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.

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 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.

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.

Jeannine Kiely states she will fight for climate justice, coastal resilience, and meeting emissions targets.

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.

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 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access, protecting seniors from rising costs, protecting and expanding gender-affirming care, and modernizing outdated laws such as the HIV Decriminalization Act.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.

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.

Jeannine Kiely supports making healthcare affordable, accessible, and accountable to patients. She advocates for defending and strengthening Medicaid, investing in primary care, and co-sponsoring the New York Health Act to achieve universal healthcare. She also supports stronger investment in community health centers, public hospitals, school-based care, and telehealth, as well as sustained state investment in mental health and substance-use care, including harm reduction and treatment on demand. She supports continued action to safeguard abortion access, contraception, and gender-affirming care.

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.

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 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.

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.

Jeannine Kiely supports building more housing with a focus on affordability, including transit-oriented development, statewide permitting of multifamily housing, additional density bonuses for affordable housing, legalizing basement apartments and accessory dwelling units. She also supports anti-displacement tools such as expanding SCRIE and DRIE, a statewide Right to Counsel, expanding the Housing Access Voucher Program, strengthening Good Cause Eviction protections, and passing Net Loss Provision legislation. She advocates for funding social housing and creating a dedicated Deeply Affordable Housing Program for households below 30% AMI.

David Siffert supports universal childcare and afterschool that is actually funded and available, fixing Tier 6 to provide benefits comparable to Tier 4, increasing pay for paraprofessionals, changing liability rules so schools can donate leftover food instead of throwing it away, and guaranteeing translators at parent-teacher conferences.

Ben Yee states that schools are quintessential community institutions that educate future New Yorkers and can provide services beyond education to those in need.

Supports funding the Class Size Reduction Act, reducing the student-to-counselor ratio to meet national standards, expanding mental health treatment in schools, and expanding funding for CUNY and SUNY by demanding large private universities contribute more.

Jeannine Kiely supports equitable funding for all students by reforming the Foundation Aid formula to reflect real costs and provide more funding to high-needs districts. She advocates for science-backed curricula, teacher training, and structured literacy instruction, as well as increased investment to recruit and retain bilingual educators. She also supports allowing older, late-arriving newcomers to attend high school for a minimum of four years and allowing those with interrupted formal education to remain in school until age 23. She supports leveraging state influence to support SUNY and CUNY.

David Siffert supports passing the New York For All Act to make New York a sanctuary state, the Access to Representation Act guaranteeing counsel for those facing deportation, banning ICE from state and municipal property without a judicial warrant, and creating a private right of action for constitutional violations during immigration enforcement.

Ben Yee states that fear is what ICE wants to spread, and that when communities are informed they are better equipped to protect one another.

Supports passing New York for All to ban collaboration with federal immigration enforcement, stop ICE incarceration in state facilities, require agents to show their faces, ensure legal representation in immigration courts, and allow New Yorkers to sue ICE agents who violate their rights.

Jeannine Kiely states she will defend immigrants, LGBTQ+ New Yorkers, disabled residents, and other minority communities as they face threats from President Trump.

David Siffert supports fixing Tier 6 for fair retirement benefits, restricting employer surveillance of workers, passing the Fair Pricing Act to prevent hospital gouging, passing the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act to strengthen wage law enforcement, supporting legislation protecting union organizers from retaliatory lawsuits, and convening tech companies and unions to develop a vision for employment in the age of AI.

Ben Yee supports closing corporate tax loopholes and asking the wealthiest residents and speculators to pay their fair share for public services.

Furhan Ahmad supports firefighters, EMTs, nurses, and public workers by advocating for fair pensions, benefits, and contracts. He views supporting workers as a quality-of-life and public safety priority.

Supports protecting collective bargaining rights, enforcing Project Labor Agreements to ensure union workers build neighborhoods, and fostering apprenticeships and green jobs programs.

David Siffert supports passing the Health Information Privacy Act, expanding the New York Abortion Access Fund, defending and expanding New York's shield laws for reproductive healthcare, strictly regulating 'crisis pregnancy centers', expanding protections for pregnant incarcerated people, expanding Medicaid coverage for maternity patients and newborns, and enacting comprehensive privacy laws for people seeking reproductive healthcare.

Ben Yee notes that while reproductive rights are protected in law, access depends on income, insurance, and location, and that maternal health disparities are severe, with pregnancy-related deaths five times higher among Black non-Hispanic pregnant people.

Supports guaranteeing gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming youth and adults, expanding access to reproductive care including lowering barriers to birth control prescription and payment, and offering vaccines on data-backed schedules.

Jeannine Kiely supports continued action to safeguard abortion access, contraception, and gender-affirming care, and to ensure providers can practice safely in New York without political intimidation from hostile states. She fought for the passage of Prop 1.

David Siffert supports 6-minute service for every subway line, prioritizing funding for MTA signal upgrades, expanding protected bike lanes and daylighting at intersections, enforcing traffic laws on bikes and e-bikes while holding delivery apps responsible for unsafe time pressures, championing fast and free buses with expanded bus lanes, and continuing to support congestion pricing with rebates for in-district residents and increased prices for Ubers and Lyfts.

Ben Yee advocates for requiring the Dept. of Transportation, MTA, and Port Authority to develop regional plans to reduce rent pressure on the urban core and integrate the metro area to expand housing and economic opportunity.

Supports fast and free buses through dedicated busways and automated enforcement, and revitalized subways through MTA capital investment, signal modernization, accessibility upgrades, and station right-sizing.

Jeannine Kiely supports MTA funding, street safety, and pedestrian accessibility. She advocates for automated enforcement with protections, regulating last-mile delivery, expanding cycling infrastructure, dedicated bus lanes, and congestion pricing with discounts for low-income New Yorkers and exemptions for people with disabilities. She also supports phasing out Class 3 e-bikes and tighter controls for e-motos/mopeds.

Ben Yee supports expanding voting rights by enabling no-excuse mail-in voting and same-day voter registration, instituting ranked-choice voting for general elections, allowing multi-member assembly districts, and making legislative results more transparent so voters can search bills passed, vetoed, or killed in committee.

Supports legalizing same-day registration, implementing automatic voter registration, and ending cronyism at the Board of Elections.

David Siffert supports passing a constitutional amendment for same-day voter registration, reforming the NYC Board of Elections, and restoring voting rights for incarcerated New Yorkers.

David Siffert supports banning biometric surveillance (facial recognition, gait analysis, voice recognition), regulating data brokers to end sale of location and health data, requiring AI transparency and accountability for decisions on jobs/housing/loans, requiring pre-deployment safety audits for AI systems, restricting workplace surveillance, passing the Health Information Privacy Act, and banning invasive surveillance technology.

Ben Yee states that government has lagged behind technological innovation and must set clear, enforceable rules that ensure AI strengthens human judgment, protects civil liberties, and serves the public interest.

Supports banning personalized pricing that uses algorithms to take advantage of consumers, blocking algorithmic discrimination with annual independent audits, regulating AI companies to stop deepfakes and disinformation, protecting privacy, ensuring safety, and making companies responsible for power generation. Also supports creating a dividend to share AI profits with citizens and protecting patient data with the New York Health Information Privacy Act.

Ben Yee states that New York’s mental health system is overwhelmingly reactive, and that significant investment is needed in intervention before crises to ensure mental health care is accessible to every New Yorker.

Furhan Ahmad supports expanding non-police mental health crisis response and investing in upstream supports to prevent crises. He also notes that climate-related disasters create mental health tolls that response systems must be ready for.

Supports closing insurance loopholes that deny care, banning step therapy, ending prior authorization for mental health medications, and enforcing parity laws. Advocates for restoring and expanding mental health funding for mobile treatment teams, clubhouses, trauma recovery centers, and the 988 crisis lifeline. Also supports expanding the mental health workforce through better pay, faster hiring, and a CUNY/SUNY graduate tuition forgiveness program.

Ben Yee supports investing in strategies proven to reduce dangerous situations before they escalate, addressing instability, untreated illness, and systemic failure rather than managing consequences after the fact. He also states that criminalization is not a solution to addiction and that a public health approach is needed for the overdose crisis and open-air drug use.

Furhan Ahmad advocates for a public safety system grounded in real-world experience, rejecting political extremes. He supports expanding non-police mental health crisis response, addressing substance use as a public health challenge, and ensuring fairness alongside safety.

Supports removing scaffolding, adding street lights to reduce crime, cleaning up subway stations, and containerizing all trash and recycling to end rat problems and garbage piles.

Ben Yee states that New York has a responsibility to deliver real protection for LGBTQ+ people, especially trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people, codify those protections into law, and ensure they can live freely, safely, and with dignity.

Supports attacking antisemitism, countering Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian animus, fighting anti-AAPI hate, and attacks on LGBTQ+ New Yorkers.

Furhan Ahmad supports protecting and expanding gender-affirming care, defending providers and patients from political interference, and ensuring Medicaid covers affirming services. He also supports safe housing for LGBTQ+ youth.

Supports ensuring trans youth can live and learn in accordance with their gender identities, increasing investment in HIV research and outreach, and expanding housing and care for LGBTQ+ young people and queer elders.

Furhan Ahmad supports giving commercial tenants rent stabilization, tax relief, and protections against arbitrary displacement. He also emphasizes helping small businesses survive climate disruptions.

Supports reducing red tape on small businesses, cracking down on extortionate insurance policies, and rationalizing year-round outdoor dining without unsightly sheds or onerous seasonal rules.