Brad Lander: “I made us the first city in the country to give stable…”

“I worked in this district for 15 years before I ran for office. Fighting evictions by corporate landlords, helping people get good jobs building affordable housing. Then I represented the neighborhood in the City Council where I made us the first city in the country to give stable schedules to fast food workers or local living wages to Deliveristas and Uber drivers. We desegregated the middle schools of our district. We built the most affordable housing anywhere around the Gowanus Canal. As comptroller, you know, I stood up for New Yorkers when elon Musk stole $80 million for New York City.” (00:55–01:04)

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