1. What is the most important issue in Manhattan you would address if elected?

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

My 6 Point Plan:

1. Create a Housing Assistance unit in the B-P’s office for tenants, Mitchell Lama, co-op residents and homeowners. Apartments are being wrongly deregulated, we must protect tenants.

2. Develop affordable housing instead of wasting a billion dollars on a Stadium.

3. Require developers to provide 30% of affordable housing when constructing market rate housing under rezoning

4. Use the Battery Park City surplus and other revenues to create 30,000 affordable apartments.

5. Repeal the Urstadt Law so NYC won’t lose 7,000 rent stabilized apartments each year.

6. Expand SCRIE to give rent relief to disabled people

2. What other important issues would you address if elected?

1. Build additional schools and convert vacant space to provide smaller class sizes. In the City Council, I had 16 schools built and expanded and created three Beacon schools.

2. Expand home care services for the frail elderly. I created low rent housing for seniors, enabled seniors to keep their Mitchell-Lama apartments and prevented the closing of senior centers.

3. Reduce diesel pollution, enforce lead poisoning legislation, expand recycling and protect the quality of our water. As Council’s leading environmental advocate – I can best protect Manhattan’s quality of life.

3. What makes you the best candidate for this office?

I have the vision and experience to know what works. No other candidate comes close to what I accomplished in my 24 years on the Council representing Washington Heights, Inwood. Marble Hill, Harlem and Morningside Heights. My record shows what I can accomplish as Borough President.

(Reprinted as supplied by the candidate.)

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