Eli Northrup supports a bold affordability agenda including universal childcare, the New York Health Act for universal healthcare, housing as a human right, lowering grocery costs via the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act, expanding Fair Fares transit affordability, and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1% through the Invest in Our New York package.

Stephanie Ruskay supports increasing funding for affordable early childcare and early childhood education, expanding access to afterschool options, calling for a Manhattan Tenants Union, advocating for robust public transportation including a busway on 110th Street, increasing production of affordable housing units (especially 2- and 3-bedroom units), and ending the Commercial Rent Tax for small businesses south of 96th Street.

Eli Northrup supports defending the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), increasing investment in the Environmental Protection Fund, green schools, a moratorium on new data centers, transitioning to renewable energy (offshore wind, grid expansion), the NY HEAT Act, a statewide cap and invest program, expanding solar access, opposing new fossil fuel infrastructure, opposing nuclear expansion, cracking down on Con Edison rate hikes, supporting a public utilities authority pilot, making public spaces climate-resilient, improving MTA investment and accountability, ensuring transit accessibility, defending congestion pricing, supporting fast and free buses, universal daylighting, and protected bus and bike lanes.

Ruskay supports stopping unjustified utility rate hikes and new fossil fuel infrastructure, advancing the New York Climate Initiative with Cap-and-Invest, championing the NY HEAT Act, lowering energy bills for renters and homeowners, boosting renewable deployment (offshore wind, 20 GW solar, $200 million for new renewables), supporting the Insure Our Future Act, decarbonizing transportation, and pushing for state climate resilience investments for public housing and transit.

Eli Northrup supports fixing the Foundation Aid Formula, opposing unchecked charter school growth, expanding community schools, guaranteeing access to free public education regardless of immigration status, green schools, expanding anti-hate and culturally responsive curricula, fair contracts for teachers (including Fix Tier 6), addressing chronic absenteeism, the New Deal for CUNY (tuition-free CUNY, increased operating aid for SUNY/CUNY/community colleges), protecting academic workers' right to organize, and championing the Universal Child Care Act and increased childcare workforce investment.

Ruskay supports increasing Universal Pre-K and 3K seats, protecting public school funding and finding new revenue streams, increasing SUNY and CUNY funding, universal afterschool and summer programming through 8th grade, strengthening religious literacy education to combat hate-based bullying, and supporting nutritious school meal programs and increased funding for guidance counselors, social workers, and staff for students with IEPs and 504s.

Eli Northrup supports the New York Health Act for universal single-payer healthcare, expanding the Essential Plan to income-eligible New Yorkers regardless of immigration status, restoring Article 6 funding for NYC's health department, ensuring equal care regardless of ability to pay, protecting patient privacy, ending medical debt, expanding community-based mental health care, investing in mental health services, providing constituent mental health resources, authorizing Overdose Prevention Centers, expanding family-based therapy, protecting abortion access with public funding and requiring insurer coverage, expanding reproductive programs (doula/midwife), guaranteeing Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care, and protecting LGBTQ+ mental health services.

Ruskay supports the NY Health Act for universal healthcare, robust funding for NYC Health + Hospitals, growing the mental health professional workforce, protecting access to gender-affirming care, and ensuring access to safe and affordable reproductive healthcare.

Eli Northrup supports a statewide right to counsel in eviction proceedings, increased state investment in NYCHA, expanding SCRIE and DRIE programs, strengthening Good Cause Eviction protections, fully establishing the Housing Access Voucher Program, creating a statewide rental registry, allowing municipalities to adopt rent stabilization, giving tenants the right of first refusal when their building is sold, supporting LGBTQ+ elder housing, increasing state contribution to NYC's shelter system, strengthening homelessness prevention programs, educating landlords about vouchers, expanding supportive and licensed housing, creating a New York State Social Housing Development Authority, building more affordable housing with community input, and supporting faith-based affordable housing.

Ruskay advocates for expanding the affordable housing revolving loan fund, doubling state housing capital investment to $10 billion over five years to produce 200,000 affordable units, banning AI-generated or altered apartment photos, increasing NYCHA funding, creating a civil right to counsel in eviction proceedings, strengthening tenant protections, protecting rent stabilization, and establishing a maximum rent of 30% of household income for older adults and people with disabilities in SCRIE/DRIE.

Eli Northrup supports abolishing ICE, championing the New York for All Act to cement sanctuary state status, codifying a statewide right to counsel in immigration proceedings (Access to Representation Act, BUILD Act), the Dignity Not Detention Act to prohibit ICE detention contracts, the MELT Act to prohibit immigration authorities from wearing masks, allowing New Yorkers to sue federal officers for constitutional violations, protecting non-citizens' access to public education, prohibiting immigration enforcement on school grounds without a warrant, and pushing for clemency and pardon reform.

Ruskay supports the New York For All Act to prohibit local law enforcement from assisting ICE, the MELT Act to require federal agents to show their faces, protecting people from arrest within 1000 feet of sensitive locations, guaranteeing access to legal representation for immigrants facing deportation, and allowing New Yorkers to sue federal officials in state court for constitutional rights violations. She also calls for abolishing ICE.

Eli Northrup supports a minimum wage of $30/hour by 2030, phasing out the tipped minimum wage (One Fair Wage bill), increasing Temporary Disability Insurance benefits, the Unemployment Bridge Program for excluded workers, the EMPIRE Act for whistleblower lawsuits, protecting union organizing, requiring neutrality from state contractors, regulating AI to prevent job displacement and discrimination, and ensuring strong labor standards for delivery workers.

Ruskay supports expanding New York's Paid Family Leave program, protecting teachers, nurses, and frontline workers with retirement security, supporting Career Pathways Training in the state budget to recruit health and social care workers, supporting workplace organizing drives, and enforcing strong labor protections and fair wages.

Eli Northrup supports youth justice reforms (Youth Justice Innovation Fund, #Right2RemainSilent Act, Youth Justice & Opportunities Act), housing as public safety, mental healthcare alternatives to incarceration (Treatment Court Expansion Act), gun violence prevention, adequate lighting in public spaces, the Communities Not Cages campaign to end mass incarceration, parole reform (Elder Parole, Fair & Timely parole), improving prison conditions (abolishing forced labor, establishing wages for incarcerated workers), reentry support, family court reform (informed consent, Family Miranda Rights), and creating a Department of Community Safety.

Ruskay advocates for working with local police precincts, the DA, and city/state agencies to address crime hotspots and quality-of-life issues; fighting antisemitism and Islamophobia; shuttering illegal smoke shops; closing Rikers Island; requiring electric bike registration with the DMV and altering delivery app algorithms; and securing funding for fully accessible subway stations on the West Side.

Eli Northrup supports regulating AI to prevent job degradation or displacement, encouraging negotiation of AI use with unions, holding companies accountable for software output, and preventing algorithmic hiring and management systems from perpetuating discrimination.

Eli Northrup supports expanding anti-bias and culturally responsive curricula, maintaining a robust constituent services team to support hate crime victims, championing the Mayor's Department of Community Safety with increased funding for hate crime prevention, and fostering interfaith dialogue.

Eli Northrup supports the Invest in Our New York package to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1% to fund the affordability agenda.