Affordability in Action Featuring Julie Su, NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Justic

Countless New York families are drowning, squeezed by unaffordable rent, impossible child care costs, and life that seems to get tougher every day. For too long, City Hall has seen its role as helping people scrape by, rather than ensuring everyone can thrive. That changed with Mayor Mamdani’s election—and his administration is moving fast to make sure average New Yorkers get a bigger piece of the pie.

Join us on Thursday May 21 at 3:30 PM ET to hear from Julie Su, New York City’s first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice, on what the Mamdani administration is doing to lower costs and how experts and advocates can help. The event will also launch Affordable NYC Now, a new project from The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers that brings together leading experts, advocates, and organizers to build ready-to-go policy solutions to make NYC truly affordable—today. 

At this event, Affordable NYC Now will unveil its first two initiatives: new zip code-level data exposing the extent of the household debt crisis in NYC, and a series of policy proposals written by local, state, and federal experts about meaningful steps City Hall can take to lower costs, make city government work better for residents and small businesses, and hold corporate bad actors accountable. Policy proposal authors will be in attendance to discuss their proposals. 

Featuring:

• Julie Su, New York City deputy mayor for economic justice
• Lorelei Salas, former commissioner of the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and senior fellow at The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers
• Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney
• Harvey Epstein, council member, New York City Council
• Julie Morgan, president of The Century Foundation 
• Winston Berkman-Breen, legal director of Protect Borrowers