NY Assembly · Assembly District 69

Supports a statewide right to counsel in eviction cases, Good Cause Eviction with its loopholes for LLC-owned and small buildings closed, and a statewide rental registry and housing voucher program. Wants a public Social Housing Development Authority to build permanently affordable homes, more state money for NYCHA repairs, and no privatization imposed on its residents.

Supports the Universal Child Care Act and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1% through the Invest in Our New York package. Backs the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act against price gouging and discriminatory pricing for smaller grocers, and wider Fair Fares transit discounts with automatic enrollment through programs like SNAP.

Supports the New York Health Act to create a single-payer universal health system and expanding the Essential Plan to income-eligible New Yorkers regardless of immigration status. Also backs authorizing overdose prevention centers statewide, Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care, and more mental health and crisis-response services.

Supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In Albany, backs the New York for All bill to keep state resources out of federal immigration enforcement, a statewide right to counsel in immigration proceedings, the Dignity Not Detention Act barring state contracts with ICE for detention facilities, and food benefits for people excluded from SNAP by citizenship status.

Supports a $50 million Youth Justice Innovation Fund drawn from Raise the Age money for community youth services, letting children consult a lawyer before police questioning, and extending youthful offender protections to ages 19 through 25. Also backs Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole reform, and ending forced labor in prisons in favor of an hourly wage for incarcerated workers.

Opposes any effort to weaken, delay or roll back the state's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Supports a moratorium on new data centers, the New York Home Energy Affordable Transition (HEAT) Act, a statewide cap-and-invest program to fund the move off fossil fuels, and a pilot public utility authority in the Hudson Valley; opposes new fossil fuel infrastructure and nuclear expansion.

Supports raising the minimum wage to $30 an hour by 2030, phasing out the lower tipped minimum wage, and wage replacement for workers left out of unemployment benefits. Wants to bar state and local money from being used against union drives, require state contractors to stay neutral in them, and stop delivery apps from suspending workers without cause.