We Rise for Housing

Housing is a human right.

While landlords and developers squeeze our communities for profit, our neighbors are at risk of displacement. Without affordable housing solutions, greedy real-estate interests will continue to influence the character of our neighborhoods. 

I believe that housing is a human right and we must continue to strengthen protections for tenants and homeowners. Together we can pass universal rent control, develop democratically controlled social housing, and make billionaires pay more to solve the housing crisis that they created. 

  • • Eliminate the Major Capital Improvement loophole preventing unjust rent increases.

  • To create democratically controlled community housing by allowing tenants to collectively purchase and run their buildings to meet human needs, not line big developers’ pockets.

  • • Ensure that all projects using 485w tax breaks, a new tax exemption program, are employing union labor.

    • Investing $3 billion from pied-a-terre taxes in public housing, prioritizing NYCHA residents who have faced winters without heat and can’t get needed repairs.

  • • Support S5267A, which establishes tax exemptions for cooperatives and condominium owners.

  • • With the limited SALT Tax, which allowed taxpayers to deduct state and local taxes beyond $10,000, we need to ensure New York State is collaborative on restoring the SALT deduction.

  • • Creating fully-supportive housing for seniors, with wraparound services on-site, such as health screenings, fresh food, dental, recreational activities, and more.

    • Housing our homeless neighbors, so they can live a dignified life, by funding 20,000 units of supportive housing for those leaving our shelter system.

    • Support Senate Bill S7635, easing the approval process for affordable housing developments in localities that do not already have enough affordable housing available.

    • Develop mixed-use housing with Single Room Occupancy Units (SROs) that maintain proper fire-safety standards.

  • • Boosting the energy efficiency of homes and reducing energy costs.

    • Offering tax deductions for weatherization projects.

    • Create more sustainable building ordinances and strengthen green building standards.

  • • Ensuring that ADUs are not mandated, but incentivized by counties.

    • Creating tax incentives for seniors who want to utilize ADUs to downsize on their property, and rent their main home.

  • By ensuring New York State funds capital projects in NYCHA across New York City. A plethora of developments across the Bronx are aging out and are in need of capital funding to continue to provide housing for seniors and the working class.