Calling him a “luxury belief” candidate ignores the real crisis working class New Yorkers face. His policies (farefree buses, rent freezes, public childcare) directly target affordability. Critiquing them as elitist deflects from the status quo failing every day.
Rather than grow police budgets he’d create a Department of Community Safety focused on crisis response, mental health, and violence prevention alongside NYPD support.
He calls for raising the minimum wage to $30/hour by 2030, funded by aligning corporate taxes with New Jersey (~11.5 %) and adding a flat 2 % surtax on incomes above $1 million.
He backs a $3.27 billion renewable energy overhaul over a decade for 500 public schools—solar panels, updated HVAC, more green spaces and resilience hubs in communities.
His plan includes city‑owned grocery stores to cut food costs, universal free childcare from six weeks to five years old, and “baby baskets” for newborn families.
He wants a complete rent freeze on rent‑stabilized apartments, triples affordable union‑built housing, boosts tenant protections, and holds landlords legally accountable for unsafe or unlivable conditions.
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He knew who he was signalling to when he chose those words.
This is how he would govern in the city of "Give me your tired your poor..'
"Globalize the INTIFADA"
Sick fk
Calling him a “luxury belief” candidate ignores the real crisis working class New Yorkers face. His policies (farefree buses, rent freezes, public childcare) directly target affordability. Critiquing them as elitist deflects from the status quo failing every day.