Affordability for All

New Yorkers are struggling with the cost of living. Half of tenants are rent burdened. Inflation reached highs not seen in decades, increasing the costs of our everyday goods. Utility rates and transit fares continue to increase, with billions of dollars needed in new revenue for the MTA.

As City Comptroller, Jenifer will fight for all New Yorkers to have truly affordable housing, economic empowerment, and a dignified standard of living.

Truly Affordable Housing

  • Use the latest in technology and project delivery to build affordable housing units in record time.

  • Invest pension dollars in affordable housing.

  • Create a New York City Land Bank to acquire properties for affordable housing development.

  • More financial assistance for homeownership.

  • Holding NYCHA accountable for providing high quality and safe affordable housing.

Life-Changing Tax Relief

  • Overhaul the property tax system to be equitable and provide relief to lower income homeowners.

  • Advocate for eliminating the SALT deduction cap.

  • New tax deductions for energy efficiency upgrades.

Critical Support for Small Businesses

  • Invest pension funds in New York City’s small businesses.

  • Community Hiring: Job Training and Placement by and for our most vulnerable New Yorkers within their neighborhoods.

  • Uplift New Yorkers from underserved communities by prioritizing them for hiring on City projects (including people with disabilities, formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, and persistently unsheltered).

A Future-Powered Economy

  • Put New York City at the forefront of the latest developments in technology, including AI and quantum computing.

  • Equitable MTA Funding

  • Explore all options for financing MTA capital upgrades so that working class New Yorkers are not unduly burdened.

  • Creating security around retirement for all City employees.

  • Fully implement the New York Secure Choice Savings Program for retirement and incentivize savings.

Jenifer’s Record on Affordability

  • Helped pass the historic Community Hiring bill.

  • Authored multiple bills creating tax credits for businesses and homeowners.

  • Authored bill creating a 3-D printed housing task force to promote this innovative method of fast and affordable housing production.

  • Provides legal counsel to tenants facing eviction.