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2025 State Legislative Platform

November 20, 2024

Effective Solutions to Immediately Address the Ongoing Humanitarian and Political Crises of Homelessness, Substance Use, and Public Safety

The intersecting issues of homelessness, the overdose crisis, and unmet mental health needs continue to impact an ever-growing number of New Yorkers, causing a humanitarian crisis across New York State. Our lawmakers continue to lean on rhetoric and policies of criminalization and incarceration, promoting jails and prisons as a public safety intervention, instead of addressing the root causes of these issues through measurable funding and evidence-based policy. This has exacerbated a political crisis in which the Right, and some Democrats, have exploited and scapegoated these issues for the purpose of winning elections and pushing even more regressive policies, which has dissolved the public trust in government. Not only is this strategy ineffective and costly, but it continues to have a negative and generational impact on overall community health and well-being. These social issues are solvable, and our elected leaders must have the courage and political will to comprehensively address them – especially in a Trump presidency.

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