New York City should be a place everyone can live with dignity – working and middle-class families, immigrants and those who have been here for generations, Jews and Muslims, queer and trans people, disabled people, older New Yorkers and young people just starting out. That requires a city where everyone can afford a home. That’s the work of Brad’s career, from his start fighting evictions and building affordable housing, to the Gowanus Neighborhood Rezoning, to his most innovative investment as Comptroller that saved 35,000 affordable rental units put at risk when Signature Bank failed. In Congress, Brad will bring his housing expertise to the fights to make Washington help New York and other cities end street homelessness, fix our public housing, protect tenants, and especially to build more affordable homes.

Brad Lander is a life-long champion for workers rights. He delivered groundbreaking job protections to freelancers and fast-food workers, and a $15 minimum wage to delivery workers and Uber drivers. He secured paid sick leave for New Yorkers. He helped stop Eric Adams from pushing the city’s retirees onto privatized Medicare Advantage. That required taking on Uber, GrubHub, McDonalds, health care lobbyists – and winning. In the coming era of AI, automation, and social media, billionaire-driven inequality will get worse, unless we do something about it. Brad will fight to increase the federal minimum wage, win Medicare for All, and strengthen the rights of workers to organize. He’ll bring his innovative approach to winning dignity for NYC’s gig workers in a changing economy to a national level. Brad will always put working people first — not billionaires.

New Yorkers’ hard-earned tax dollars should not be going to fund forever wars and human rights violations – whether by foreign leaders or American ones. Brad believes we need a foreign policy that emphasizes global peacemaking over militarism, that defends human rights and international norms, and that defeats authoritarianism globally through alliances that address inequality and poverty. He’s had the courage to stand up for these beliefs throughout his life – for freedom for Soviet Jewry, against the war in Iraq, and to stop Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory and the destruction of Gaza. Brad knows that Israelis will only be safe and free when Palestinians are free and safe. Brad will fight to rebuild USAID, save lives, and protect civilians from Ukraine to Sudan to Venezuela. He will push back against an imperial presidency – whichever party is in power – and restore Congress’ constitutional role to set foreign policy. And help craft a new Democratic foreign policy that does better to build bridges at home and abroad.