Issue Position: Housing

Issue Position

North Brooklyn is facing a housing crisis of vast proportions. With market rates skyrocketing and our neighborhoods losing rent-stabilized units every year, thousands of people--including residents who have lived here for decades--are being displaced from their homes. Tenant harassment and racial discrimination in housing are rampant. Greenpoint and Williamsburg are still struggling with the effects of Bloomberg-era upzonings and the massive displacement they caused, while Bushwick is faced with the prospect of a massive upzoning that would destroy jobs, cause evictions and transform our community. With our rent laws expiring in 2019, New York is at a crossroads.
That's why I've placed affordable housing at the center of my campaign. I will fight to:
End the vacancy decontrol that incentivizes tenant harassment and eviction,
End preferential rents and sharply limit MCI-induced rent increases, both of which abet gentrification
Secure state financing for truly and deeply affordable housing--housing that's affordable to the working-class residents of North Brooklyn, not just the rich.
Fight the upzonings which hold our communities hostage to the forces of gentrification
Expand the rent stabilization system to cover all New York apartments, so that no tenant is faced with the prospect of suddenly being evicted from their homes

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