U.S. House · New York - 7

Supports national rent control, permanently affordable public and community-owned housing, tenant organizing and good-cause eviction protections. Proposes conditioning federal housing funds on affordability, transit access and labor standards, and expanding vouchers, public-housing repairs and tenant enforcement.

Supports expanding affordable housing and homeownership for working families while making property taxes reflect income rather than only rising market values. Describes housing as a foundation of stability and ownership as a route to generational wealth and rooted communities.

Proposes a Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act giving renters notice and a first chance to bid when landlords sell, with financing, legal and technical assistance. Also supports an anti-flip tax, expanded homeowner protections and revised income caps for senior and disability exemptions.

Supports abolishing and dismantling ICE, ending for-profit detention and deportation, and investigating abuses by federal agents and contractors. Proposes pathways to lawful permanent residence, more refugee admissions and work authorization for asylum seekers while cases are pending.

Proposes focusing immigration enforcement on criminal offenders, requiring warrants and protecting places of worship and civic or administrative appointments. Supports expedited Green Card pathways for people who have lived in the United States for at least 10 years, follow the law and pay taxes.

Supports strengthening the PRO Act and collective bargaining, federal support for organizing, a federal jobs guarantee, a $17 federal minimum wage by 2030, paid leave and a 32-hour workweek without reduced pay. She also proposes stronger protections against workplace surveillance and union busting.

Supports repealing New York's Taylor Law and protecting workers' rights to organize, protest and negotiate fair wages. Also proposes improving compensation and working conditions for public employees.

Proposes expanding trade schools, apprenticeships and industrial high schools, with financial-literacy and entrepreneurship training. Also supports returning more control to parents and communities so students graduate with job skills as well as diplomas.

Supports tuition-free higher education with federal grants covering attendance and living costs, alongside fair pay, job security and collective bargaining for educators. Also supports a moratorium on generative AI in schools to protect student privacy and cognitive and mental health.

Supports making education in New York's 7th District a pipeline to local jobs through computer science, career readiness, early exposure, skills training and industry partnerships. Describes education as preparation for the district's future economy.

Supports redirecting federal transportation dollars from highways toward public transit, walking and biking. Proposes more federal transit spending, better transit access, reconnecting communities divided by highways and technology investments that support union jobs while reducing driving emissions.

Proposes auditing MTA spending and congestion pricing, expanding Fair Fares and improving commuter affordability. Also supports regulated transit alternatives in underserved areas.

Supports a rapid transition to affordable clean energy, freezing electricity rates, resilient infrastructure for flooding and extreme heat, stronger heat protections at work and local toxic-site cleanup. Also proposes regulating AI's energy and environmental impacts.

Proposes investments in flood resilience, sewer infrastructure and climate adaptation, along with expanded cooling centers and senior and disability support. Also supports strict lead-safety and air-quality standards.

Supports Medicare for All as a universal health-care system without copays, high deductibles or private-insurance denials. She says coverage should continue when people lose jobs and include reproductive and gender-affirming care.

Supports treating health care as a fundamental right and expanding mental-health services into schools, neighborhoods and community spaces. Emphasizes prevention, early support and continuity of community-based care.