NYC Mayoral Match Quiz

1. New York City should increase the number of NYPD officers to crack down on crime and enforce quality-of-life offenses.

2. We should freeze or strictly cap rents across the city to provide immediate relief for tenants.

3. We should rely less on policing and invest more in mental health services, violence interruption, and social programs to address crime.

4. Free childcare should be provided for all families in New York City, just like we provide free public education.

5. To tackle the migrant crisis, the city must prioritize local residents for resources over new arrivals.

6. A major housing goal (like building or preserving one million units) is essential to solve NYC's affordability crisis, even if it means upzoning more neighborhoods.

7. The mayor should aggressively expand the number of charter schools and give families more school-choice options.

8. We should make public buses in NYC free for everyone, funded by new taxes or reallocating money from other parts of the budget.

9. City government should be shrunk and its spending reined in to ease the tax burden on businesses and residents.

10. Homeless New Yorkers with serious mental illness should be forced into treatment if they refuse help on the streets.

11. We should legalize and convert more basement apartments, office buildings, and other spaces into housing as quickly as possible.

12. Police reform and accountability—like stronger oversight and curbing abusive practices—should be a higher priority than hiring new officers.

13. It's better to attract large businesses and major development projects (stadiums, casinos, corporate offices) than to risk them leaving NYC.

14. NYC must achieve ambitious climate goals by investing heavily in green jobs, renewable energy, and climate resilience infrastructure—whatever the cost.