Brad Lander is running for Mayor to deliver a New York City that’s safer, more affordable, and better-run. Read more about Brad’s solutions and track record on the issues below.
Brad’s solutions for a safer city
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End homelessness for people with serious mental illness
Brad will end street homelessness for New Yorkers with serious mental illness to make our streets and subways safer for all — with a better coordinated continuum-of-care, more effective outreach and hospitalization, and a “Housing First” approach.
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Achieve and guarantee public safety
Brad’s blueprint for public safety includes reducing crime, confronting the staffing crisis at the NYPD, focusing on solving gun crimes, and keeping Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner. He’ll restore trust and accountability by combatting hate crimes and investing in community partnerships and safe neighborhoods.
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End retail theft
Brad will stop retail theft — and free items behind lock and key at drugstores — by launching a simple, one-stop platform to streamline reporting, investigating, and preventing shoplifters.
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Fight hate and harassment
Amidst a rise in hate crimes and antisemitism, Brad will adopt cutting-edge technology to identify extremist threats online and prevent violence before it starts.
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Prepare for the climate crisis
Brad will equip New York City for the ongoing climate crisis by reducing our carbon emissions, guaranteeing access to affordable clean energy, creating economic opportunities through green jobs and reliable transit, and building more resilient neighborhoods.
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Stand up to Donald Trump
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk threaten our neighbors and our services, Brad will bring New Yorkers together and stand up for women, the LGBTQ community, workers, our immigrant neighbors, people of color, Jews, Muslims, or any other New Yorkers subjected to hate or attack.
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Stand up for our immigrant neighbors
Brad understands that immigrant New Yorkers are the economic engine of our city and will stand up for our neighbors against authoritarian attacks from the Trump administration. He will ensure immigrant New Yorkers can obtain legal services, work authorization, case management, and more.
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Protect reproductive rights
Brad will ensure that New York remains a haven for women’s health — strengthening protections against federal threats, expanding abortion access citywide, increasing practical support for out-of-state travelers, improving emergency care, and broadening access to contraception and comprehensive sex education.
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Advance maternal health for Black and brown New Yorkers
Brad will confront the city’s maternal health crisis by investing in midwife-led care, expanding culturally competent services, and ensuring that Black and brown women receive the high-quality care they deserve.
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Stand up for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers
Brad will make New York City a national model for LGBTQ+ equality by funding queer-led nonprofits, protecting gender-affirming care, fighting hate, ending criminalization, and co-governing with LGBTQ+ communities to build a city where everyone can thrive.
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Close Rikers Island
Brad will expedite construction of borough-based jails, reduce the jail population through court and pretrial reforms, end solitary confinement, and rescind Mayor Adams’s order allowing ICE on Rikers.
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Protect health care
Brad will fight to improve health care coverage, ensure low deductibles and premiums, protect New Yorkers with pre-existing conditions, and prevent city retirees from being forced onto inferior Medicaid Advantage plans.
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Trash the rats
Brad will improve New Yorkers’ quality of life by solving our city’s rat problem and delivering cleaner, healthier streets for all. Unlike Eric Adams’ “Rat Czar” gimmicks and trash bin chaos, Brad’s plan is smart, scalable, and actually works for New York — prioritizing getting food waste and garbage off our streets and sidewalks.
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Deliver for AAPI New Yorkers
Brad will deliver safety, opportunity, and inclusion for New York's AAPI communities by expanding language access, combating hate crime and retail theft, investing in education and small businesses, and ensuring every community has a voice in City Hall.
Brad’s solutions for a more affordable city
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Solve the housing crisis
Brad will declare a state of emergency on the housing crisis — so we can cut through red tape, build 500,000 new units of housing, protect tenants, and increase pathways to home ownership. He’ll freeze the rent and fix our broken housing agencies to deliver progress on the housing New Yorkers need.
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Guarantee child care and afterschool for all
Brad will restore Mayor Adams’ cuts to child care so that we can fulfill the promise of genuinely universal Pre-K and 3-K, then work with New Yorkers United for Child Care to expand to 2-K. He will deliver free, high-quality afterschool programming for K through 8th graders.
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Provide world-class public education
Brad will deliver universal Pre-K and 3K (alongside a “2-Care for All” program), create universal after-school programs, and invest in educators and CUNY. He will expand proven mental health programs and limit the use of smartphones in schools.
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Deliver a better deal for Black New Yorkers
In dialogue with Black elected officials, leaders, and community members, Brad has developed “A Better Deal for Black New Yorkers" — a platform that will expand and protect Black homeownership in New York City, fix NYCHA to provide affordable, dignified homes to Black families, and support Black entrepreneurs to start and expand businesses and economic opportunity, and more.
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Protect workers’ rights
Brad will create a new Mayor’s Office of Workers’ Rights to coordinate the use of all of the City’s tools — contracting, concessions, legislation, franchising, economic development, tax breaks, transparency — to support and protect workers.
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Protect consumers
Brad will protect consumers, small businesses, and student loan borrowers by enhancing protections against junk fees, price gouging, and predatory lending practices.
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Guarantee good jobs
Brad will build an inclusive economy where working families can thrive, young people can jumpstart careers, and diverse entrepreneurs can grow successful businesses.
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Renew NYC’s commitment to veterans
Brad will restore critical support programs like VetConnect, create new opportunities for economic mobility, and revamp the Department of Veterans’ Services.
Brad’s solutions for a better-run city
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Make public transit work
Brad will continue leading the fight to improve our subways and buses, reduce traffic crashes to save lives, and make our streets and neighborhoods more livable.
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Lead with public integrity
Brad will stop corruption and restore trust in City Hall with comprehensive reforms to close lobbying loopholes, fight corruption in contracting, make COIB independent, increase transparency and media accessibility, and more.
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Fix NYCHA
Brad will triple capital investment in the agency and directly empower tenants. Brad will leverage resident feedback through a "Yelp for NYCHA Repairs" system to strengthen property management, ensure residents have a majority vote on decisions affecting their homes, and offer multiple pathways for rehabilitation.
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Attract and retain a world-class City workforce
Brad will breathe life into the municipal workforce — reforming outdated civil service rules, attracting and retaining the best talent, and restoring a relationship of mutual respect between New Yorkers and their teachers, cops, and municipal employees. He’ll create a “Homes for City Workers” program that will make affordable homeownership possible for municipal workers.
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Make City Hall fiscally responsible
Brad will grow the City’s “Rainy Day Fund,” and create a new “Protecting NYC Reserve” with billions of dollars from existing revenue sources. He will monitor the City’s debt, prioritize long-term savings, and adopt fiscally responsible policies to ensure that City contractors get paid on time.
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Leverage technology to make government work
Brad will modernize municipal technology (including the use of AI) to make City government work better. He will make sure City agencies utilize data more effectively to drive decisions and improve how the public accesses government services.
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Fix NYC’s outdoor dining program
Brad will fix the broken and burdensome Dining Out NYC program to ensure a vibrant future for outdoor dining. By cutting bureaucratic red tape at the Department of Transportation, he will keep our streets lively, our neighborhoods thriving, and our restaurants flourishing.
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Reimagine parks and public space
Brad will reimagine public space as a citywide system that serves all New Yorkers — connecting parks to plazas, schoolyards to streets, and communities to the green infrastructure they deserve.
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Transform NYC’s libraries
Brad will transform New York City’s libraries into fully funded, civic hubs — expanding hours, building new branches, modernizing infrastructure, improving worker conditions, and defending libraries as vital spaces for democracy, learning, and community life.
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Champion arts, culture, and creativity
Brad will stitch arts and culture into the fabric of daily life through lively public spaces, lifelong cultural engagement, access to afterschool arts for all students, and more.