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WILEY: "Frankly, our whole platform is the most progressive set of policies on any issue. Take, for example, the fact that I’m going to shift $1 billion from New York City Police Department because it is poorly managed, it is not focusing our resources smartly on keeping us safe from crime and from police violence. And as a black woman and as a civil rights lawyer, I know it’s simply a false choice to say we have to have one or the other. We need to support mental health crisis response, show this country how it’s done. Show this city how we can be safe from both those problems. But, look, housing, we had a crisis in affordability in this city before Covid, and now we have 400,000 more New Yorkers facing eviction. I’m the candidate that has a rent subsidy plan, in addition to building more permanently affordable housing with our capital construction budget that I’ll double, but I’m going to subsidize the rent for families earning $54,000 or less so they’re not paying more than 30% of their income on rent."