What this campaign is about:

A government for the people — built by people. Our district deserves leadership that listens first, governs with humility, and fights to materially improve the lives of working families. Congress is full of career politicians who have forgotten who they represent. We’re building a bottom-up coalition — powered by tenants, small business owners, educators, essential workers, immigrants, parents, and the neighborhoods we love. We lead with empathy. We fight disenfranchisement. We lower the temperature and raise the quality of conversation.

  • Teacher Support

    • Federal minimum teacher salary floor

    • Performance bonuses tied to growth, not punitive metrics

    • Housing stipends or tax credits for teachers in high-cost regions

    Learning Outcomes

    • Targeted literacy & numeracy recovery programs

    • Arts and language funding restoration

    • Community-based tutoring programs

    School Meals

    • Invest in scratch cooking kitchens

    • Local procurement from NY farms & urban growers

    • Phase out ultra-processed cafeteria food

    AI Curriculum

    • Teach AI as a tool: research, writing, data literacy

    • Anti-plagiarism ethics training

    • Federal grants for school AI labs, coding, robotics


    We aren’t preparing children for yesterday — we’re preparing them for what’s coming.

  • Food Prices

    • Antitrust enforcement against corporate food monopolies

    • Grants for co-ops, community kitchens, local distribution

    • SNAP modernization + expansion, especially for working families

    • Incentivize grocery access in food deserts

    Housing

    • Expand Section 8 + federal rent stabilization pilots

    • Build mixed-income housing on underutilized federal property

    • Tax incentives for landlords who keep below-market rents

    • Housing voucher acceptance enforcement

    Wages

    • Gradual raise to a livable national minimum wage

    • Wage indexing to cost-of-living inflation

    • Tax credits for small businesses increasing local employment

    A thriving economy means people can stay in the communities they built.

  • We can be a national model.

    • Expand offshore wind workforce pipelines (training + apprenticeships)

    • Solar on schools, NYCHA roofs, commercial rooftops

    • Federal incentives for small-scale community solar

    • Modernize grid capacity + microgrid redundancy

    • Expand waterfront storm-surge protections, marsh restoration

    • Enforce + accelerate Superfund cleanup timelines

    • Prioritize climate jobs for local workers first

     Job creation + resilience + lower bills + cleaner air

  • Universal Mental Health Access

    • Federal expansion of low/no-cost therapy

    • School and community counselors embedded full-time

    • Telehealth parity for mental health reimbursement

    Maternal Health Equity

    • Expand doula + midwife coverage under Medicaid

    • Hold hospitals accountable for disparities in maternal outcomes

    • Federally fund prenatal care access in high-need districts

    Addiction, Recovery & Harm Reduction

    • Safe consumption sites paired with recovery pathways

    • Treatment capacity expansion + opioid settlement enforcement

    • Decriminalize survival, invest in restoration not punishment

    A society is measured not by its strength, but by how it treats those who are hurting.

  • Micro-Grants & Bridge Capital

    • Federal $5K–$50K rapid deploy grants for storefront survival

    • Local food entrepreneurship zones for home-to-market growth

    • Rent-stabilization incentives for commercial landlords

    Creative Worker Protections

    • Portable benefits for freelancers and gig workers

    • Union access pathways for media, film, performance

    • Venue grant programs tied to youth arts programming

    Nightlife & Cultural Ecosystem

    • Safety infrastructure without crackdown policing

    • Licensing reform to reduce bureaucratic friction

    • Keep culture alive without pushing people out

    Art is an economy.  Small business is democracy in storefront form.

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    • Streamlined adjustment for long-term residents

    • Federal backlog reduction & processing modernization

    • Pathways for DACA recipients → permanent residency → citizenship

    Federal Support for Municipal ID Systems

    • Integrate federal identity with municipal/bilingual systems

    • Enable IDs as labor authorization on pilot basis

    • Expand language access for all federal forms + voting

    People are not illegal.  Stability builds safety. Belonging builds neighborhoods.

  • Congestion Relief & Smarter Flow Management

    • Modernize signal prioritization for trains and buses

    • Reduce freight bottlenecks with night-delivery incentives

    OMNY Affordability

    • Federal matching funds for low-income fare subsidy programs

    • Youth + senior rider expansion

    • Pilot program for fare capping across MTA & PATH systems

    Active Transit Infrastructure

    • Protected bike lane networks that are continuous, not fragmented

    • Federal investment in safe micromobility docking + charging

    • Vision Zero street redesigns prioritizing pedestrians over vehicles

    A transit system is an equity system.  If movement is possible, opportunity is possible.

  • Urban Heat & Tree Canopy Equity

    • Map heat islands and prioritize tree planting in the hottest census tracts

    • Federal urban forestry corps hired locally

    • Shade equity as public health

    Storm Surge & Flood Defense

    • Expand sponge landscaping + green roof incentives

    • Strengthen levees + marsh restoration along the East River & Gowanus edges

    • Federal funding for basement flood-proofing + resiliency upgrades

    • Expand Oyster Beds

    Waterfront Remediation & Access

    • Accelerate Superfund cleanup timelines

    • Create community stewardship councils for waterfront monitoring

    • Reclaim shoreline for people, not just development

    We cannot hand our children a district built only for high tide.  We must build one that weathers the storm.