New York City has a severe housing shortage, causing rents here to be higher than almost any other city in the country. We need more supply, and the best way to do that is to legalize more housing by reforming our outdated zoning code and streamlining the permitting process. We need more housing at all income levels, including both subsidized-affordable and market-rate housing.

Immigration not only contributes to the melting pot that makes New York City a global capital, but creates jobs, leads to more innovation and entrepreneurship, makes the city’s labor force more skilled and dynamic, and improves the city budget. NYC needs an agenda that welcomes immigrants by making sure they are safe from deportation and have adequate access to food, shelter, education, employment, capital, and public services.

New York City should have better mass transit and fewer cars. Cars contribute to climate change, waste valuable space, cause accidents, emit dangerous pollution, and make NYC worse. We believe in reducing the impact of cars in NYC in many ways - congestion pricing, reclaiming streets for pedestrian use, eliminating free parking, and more. We also believe in a stronger public transit system that should include many more bus-only streets and protected bike lanes.

The criminal justice system is bloated, punitive, and ineffective. Policies we tout as solutions are: decriminalization and legalization of crimes such as prostitutions and possession of low-level drugs; increased oversight of police such as through national use of force standards and financial incentives for police department accountability; economic advancement for the disadvantaged to deter the incentives for crime and provide opportunities for former incarcerated individuals; and the increased regulation of firearms to counter gun violence.

We believe in economic growth through markets and simultaneous willingness to then spread the fruit of that growth through distribution. Specific planks are investment in human capital (workplace training in high schools, CUNY-to-career pipelines), reducing the red tape all businesses face in opening, operating, and expanding, and attracting private investment projects that bring jobs to the city as well as increasing the city’s budget with increased tax revenue.

Home of the Stonewall Inn, to many New York City represents the center of the LGBTQ rights movement. Our city will only truly live up to Mayor Dinkin's Gorgeous Mosaic when we have true equality. As many states attack trans people for who they are, let us make New York into a shining, rainbow city on a hill.