Op-ed | January budget plan makes NYC safer, more affordable to raise a family

From day one, our administration has been focused on one mission: making New York City safer and more affordable. Every day and everywhere, we are delivering on that mission for working-class New Yorkers and making New York City the best place to raise a family.

We have driven crime down, seized 20,000 illegal guns, removed 80,000 ghost cars and other illegal vehicles off our streets, and shut down more than 1,300 unlicensed cannabis stores. We passed the historic “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” plan, the most pro-housing proposal in New York City history. We have stimulated the creation of a record number of jobs and new small businesses and put billions of dollars back into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers. It is clear: New York City’s economy is booming.