Campaign Insiders: A Q&A with AD-66 Candidate David Siffert
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Campaign Insiders: A Q&A with AD-66 Candidate David Siffert
The campaign prioritizes housing, immigration, and regulating AI. Housing policy calls for investing in deeply affordable housing and expanding vouchers, funded by a tax on vacant units, rather than providing handouts to developers. Immigration policy frames federal enforcement as terrorizing communities and supports making New York a sanctuary state, banning ICE from state property, and allowing New Yorkers to sue when ICE violates the law. AI policy emphasizes that unregulated AI creates privacy, labor, environmental, educational, and existential risks, and the candidate has drafted bills to mitigate those risks. The housing crisis is described through homelessness, rent burdens, challenges for seniors aging in place, and unaffordability for young families, with plans for social housing, more voucher funding, and increased construction of permanent housing.
"Housing: Instead of handouts to developers, NY must invest in deeply affordable housing and expanded vouchers, paid for by a tax on vacant units."
"Immigration: Donald Trump is terrorizing our communities. We must make NY a sanctuary state, ban ICE from state property, and allow NYers to sue when ICE breaks the law."
"Regulating AI: Unregulated AI poses privacy, labor, environmental, educational and ultimately existential risks. I have already drafted bills to mitigate these risks."
"The housing crisis: over 100,000 New Yorkers are experiencing homelessness, more than half of renters are rent-burdened, seniors struggle to age in place, and young people can't afford the space to start families. We can't keep waiting for developer handouts to "trickle down" to working New Yorkers. I will invest in real solutions, like social housing, expanded housing voucher funding, and increased construction of permanent,"
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