New York Values
presents:
Ean Steinberger
for
Mayor 2025
Big Apple. Bigger Ideas.
Where does my rent go…?
Since 2000, 87% percent of all housing units in NYC have been purchased by corporate landlords. All the while nearly 70% of New Yorkers remain renters, all but locked out of homeownership.
What can we do?
RENT-TO-OWN NYC!
For the first time ever a US city will support its citizens’ security and longterm prosperity by underwriting mortgages for the New Yorkers who have been here the longest.
Home ownership is one of the greatest gateways to creating generational wealth. It also builds community, culture, and a real human investment in our neighborhoods. I don’t want a city of transient renters shoveling hard earned cash to the lifeless highrises that paved over our storied blocks and forced the evictions of so many. I want New York to be a city of owners, not renters! You’ve worked hard, you’ve given so much to your community, you are the reason that real estate is valuable to begin and YOU–not some megacorporation–deserve to reap the fruit of your labor.
You have a right to your city! Having your own slice of the pie is not and should not be a fantasy! To see how we can make it a reality, check out the full platform:
What does my rent go to…?
Operating with little to no regulation and scrutiny, landlords have been given carte blanche to price fix–often leading to rents more than 60% higher than the cost of tax and maintainance
What can we do?
40% RENT REDUCTION for All NYers!
Freezing rent prices would be a great idea, if rent prices weren’t already out of control. Instead I propose we address prices from the source: forcing landlords to disclose rent breakdowns on leases and CAPPING rental profits at 20%–this would on average bring rents down 40% overnight, while allowing a return on investment for landlords that’s still 4x better than your average 10-year treasury bond.
Think back to the last time you ordered delivery. If you’re like me 1. You’re mad that they keep making it harder to tip restaurants and delivery people, but 2. You’re frustrated and confused by the service 5-10% and delivery fees that feel like they combine to double the price of the meal. Now imagine that those fees weren’t 5-10%, but instead 60%. You'd be rioting in the streets over a $100 burrito. As frivolous as this analogy seems, this is exactly what corporate landlords have been doing to renters with astonishingly negligible resistance. And this isn’t some over priced burrito we’re talking about, this is a one bedroom that costs $3000/mo for a landlord to maintain, being rented to you for on average $4500/mo–that’s nearly $20,000 a year you’re giving to a landlord for doing what? having more money than you to buy the building in the first place. If nothing else, read this section and ask, not just where does my rent go? But why have I never seen a breakdown of my rent?
It’s been over a decade since Vermin Supreme took to the stage to declare that “the Rent is Too Damn High!” To see how we can finally bring it down, check out the full platform:
Where did my favorite store go…?
Renters aren’t the only ones suffering from corporate landlord price gauging. Every day it feels like another store we grew up with shuts its doors permanently, only to be replaced by a McDonald’s or Panera bread. For a city known for supporting local, family run businesses, this is devastating both culturally and economically.
What can we do?
Lower Taxes on Small Businesses and Raise them on Large Chains!
For years the city has been trying to entice these large corporations with tax breaks and now we finally see the repercussions. Let’s flip the script, and make them fight for once to compete with our home grown businesses. Let’s incentivize and support the next generation entrepreneurial New Yorkers to pursue their dreams. Let’s build the city that we want to live in, bustling with neighborhood shops and go-to spots; not corporate parks and fast-casual haunts.
Do you know that there is a Panda Express in Hell’s Kitchen. A Panda Express. Hell’s Kitchen. Not LaGuardia, Hell’s KITCHEN. If that upsets you as much as it does me, check out how we want to help small businesses succeed again in the full platform:
What else can we do?
Aside from the policies above, I support a wealth of progressive policies designed to enrich the people of New Yorker and strengthen the fabric of our city–all detailed in my full platform– grounded in true New York Values:
Education
Our Public Education system is one of our city’s greatest strengths and the foundation of our future. Yet per pupil spending has barely increased since the 1990s. I want to spearhead the greatest modern reinvestment in Public Education, starting with:
An Immediate 20% increase to all NYC Teacher Salaries
New STEM and Arts Grants for Public Schools
Funding for the creation of New Technical and Vocational Schools
Funding for Adult Education
Compassion
As much of a trope as it is, I truly believe that NYers may not be nice, but they are kind. Compassion–uplifting you fellow NYers, no matter where they’re from–is built into the core of our modern metropolis–the: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” of it all. I want to restore that care within our city by:
Decriminalizing Homelessness
Providing Unwavering Support and City Assistance to Migrants and Undocumented NYers
Improving Employment and Education Options for the Formerly Incarcerated
Eliminating Food Deserts
Public Transportation
Public Transportation is the lifeblood of any city, and our iconic system has had my heart since I was a kid. Looking past the rose-tinted glasses, though we can all agree that the Subway and Bus systems are imperfect–dirty, delayed, decaying. But I have a plan, a deal so-to-speak–from one lover of our city’s to another–to transform our aging star into a modern wonder:
Expand Subway Service in Queens, the Bronx, and to LaGuardia Airport
Modernize Signals and Weatherproof Stations
Update Bus Routes based on where people actually get on and off
Free Bus Service, Free Shuttle Service, and $2 Subway Service during this period of Renovation and Construction
We Succeed Together
New Yorkers stand up for eachother and lean on eachother in their times of need. That is why I proudly only accept small donations from real New Yorkers. Whether it’s time or money, whatever you’re comfortable giving will only go right back to the community as we continue the fight for our city!
New Yorkers Stick By Their Own
Unlike some out there who may run for the prestige or the (*cough *cough) financial benefits of the office, my rationale for running lies entirely in the moment. I love this city so much, and all I want is the best for it. I don’t care about winning, I don’t care about my name, I just want to give back to the city and the people in it who made me who I am today and made all of this possible. But humility on a site with my name plastered all over is cheap, and talk is even cheaper, so here is a list of every other candidate in this race who I believe has strong policies and a stronger love of the city:
Zohran Mamdani
Jessica Ramos
Brad Lander
Adrienne Adams
The only way we succeed is by working together, the only way we fail is by falling apart. Don’t let corporations and the candidates they bank roll fool you–no matter how different we may seem, we all need the same things to survive and thrive. It’s just like the attitude, just because we give a little cold shoulder on the street, doesn’t mean we don’t care deeply and uplift our fellow New Yorkers, we just got somewhere to be y’know! So let’s all help eachother and build a future in this city that we can be proud of.
Let’s do Something Great for this City.
No Half Measures. No Baby Steps.
New York City is Big and Loud and Proud.
It Deserves Ideas and Leadership to Fit that Bill.
We have a ton of big Ideas to help this city that we haven’t even begun to touch on on this webpage. So please check out the full platform to see if something speaks to you.
We also want to hear your ideas too! Questions or comments on any of our proposed policies? Let us Know! Thoughts about what you would want to see? Chat our ear off! Or maybe you just want to follow along with the campaign–see how far we can actually make it. That works too! Just enter your email and any message you want to send below and fire away: