All New Yorkers should have access to housing, livelihood, and resources to thrive. New Yorkers in every city council district use our city’s vital public resources, from libraries to parks to schools to arts programs to elder care and workforce development. But these resources are under attack from a mayor determined to cut corners and slash essential services. We have a different vision: one where every part of our city, every district, and every block, is a nurturing, stable home for all of its residents.

Since entering office, Mayor Eric Adams has cut essential services 5x! These harmful cuts most deeply impact low-income New Yorkers of color who rely on the City’s public social safety net, libraries, schools, social services, public hospitals, and public institutions. The Mayor’s budget cuts are unacceptable for a city that is home to the most billionaires in the world–a group whose wealth has grown astronomically during the pandemic.

At a time when so many are struggling – with the ongoing public health crises, exploding costs for housing and basic necessities, and the deep structural inequality and racism that pervades our society and economy – these harsh cuts to libraries, schools, CUNY, and housing and social services, when budgets for agencies that criminalize New Yorkers increase or remain steady, present a critical threat and misaligned priorities that do not meet the needs of working class New Yorkers.

Care-based services provide New Yorkers the means to meet their basic needs: food, water, housing, clothing, medicine, health and mental health care, finances, sanitation, safe environments, and education. In the long run, divesting from these necessities will make NYC a less safe, stable, healthy, and desirable place to live. We need investments in programs and services that directly aid New Yorkers in need, not cuts.

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