democratic socialist
SAMANTHA KATTAN
for assembly
Long Island City, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Sunnyside, Woodside
As the daughter of immigrants—my mother from Mexico and my father from Syria—I know what it takes to build a life in a new home. As a working parent, I understand the daily sacrifices families make to care for their children while keeping up with the rising cost of living in our city.
And through my years as a tenant organizer, I’ve seen firsthand the unlivable conditions too many New Yorkers are forced to endure. But I’ve also seen how much power we have when we organize together.
My name is samantha Kattan. I’m the first-generation daughter of immigrants, a working parent, a tenant organizer, and a proud democratic socialist.
Queens was built by working class New Yorkers from all over the world. I’m running to make sure the people made our communities can afford to remain in them and benefit from the fruits of their labor.
As your Assembly Member for District 37, I will fight alongside you for social housing, strong tenant protections, universal healthcare, free childcare, immigrant rights, and greener, healthier neighborhoods.
These are not luxuries. They are basic human rights. Together, we can build a New York where the people who make our city run can afford to live, stay, and thrive.
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housing
Whether you’re a rent-stabilized tenant in Sunnyside, a market-rate renter in Ridgewood, or a co-op or condo resident in Long Island City, you deserve to live in an affordable, stable, well-maintained home. I’ve spent my career organizing with tenants, and in Albany, I will defend rent regulation, support the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (giving tenants the first opportunity to buy their building when their landlord wants to sell), and create a Social Housing Development Authority to build world-class, permanently affordable new homes for our families to live in, not to line a landlord’s pockets.
tax the rich
In the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, too many of us live with too little. I will be fighting to increase taxes on corporations and the wealthiest New Yorkers so we can create a state that works for all of us, with high quality social services like universal childcare, single payer healthcare, social housing, free buses, and more.
universal childcare
As a new mom, I know firsthand that our state isn’t set up to support most parents. The Governor and Mayor’s new commitment to 2-k and expanding childcare statewide is necessary and commendable, but still requires long-term funding and strong implementation. We also still need to go further to win free after-care programming, options for parents with nontraditional work schedules, and to extend free childcare to babies as young as six weeks. To ensure that families can put down roots and build a life in Queens, I will lead in this effort to deliver a universal childcare system that truly works for working families.
immigrant justice
Immigrants built District 37 and make New York the vibrant, thriving multicultural city it is today. As a child of immigrants, I know too often those who were born elsewhere face exclusion, harassment, and threats from a fascist federal regime. I will support legislation to secure access to legal counsel during immigration court cases, to prohibit local law enforcement statewide from collaborating with ICE, to ban ICE agents from masking during civilian immigration actions, and more.
In addition, I will fight to cut State funding to the dozen counties and towns across the state that have entered into formal agreements with ICE to deputize local law enforcement to conduct immigration enforcement. New York has the power to fight back—and we must.
CLIMATE
From increased flooding to soaring summer temperatures, Queens is already feeling the impacts of climate change. Fortunately, New York City and State have set ambitious climate goals including reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To help us meet these goals, I will fight for the full implementation of the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) so that we can move our state towards publicly-owned renewable energy.
To fight climate change at home, we need Local Law 97 compliance to be successful. But for too many working-class and senior co-op owners and residents, the costs of compliance are more they can afford. As the Assembly Member for District 37, I will be on the front lines of the fight for State resources to help co-ops come into compliance and reduce their emissions, as well as for homeowners to easily invest in energy efficiency upgrades.
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CLAIRE VALDEZ
ENDORSEMENTS
NEW YORK CITY
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA
HOTEL AND GAMING
TRADES COUNCIL
CHURCHES UNITED FOR
FAIR HOUSING ACTION
DRUM BEATS
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
WORKING FAMILIES PARTY
STATE ASSEMBLY MEMBER
PHARA SOUFFRANT FORREST
CITY COUNCILMEMBER
TIFFANY CABAN
CITY COUNCILMEMBER
ALEXA AVILES
TENANTS PAC
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