
Section 1: Healthcare (Sal Albanese)
1. Fully fund HHC programs that provide HIV testing, care, and support services.
2. Maintain the current HASA case worker to client ratios at 1:36 as governed by New York City’s local law 49.
3. Fully fund housing support services for low income people living with HIV.
4. Fully fund food and nutrition services for low-income people living with HIV.
5. What is your position on allowing New Yorkers to legally use medical marijuana if prescribed by a physician?
Additional comments: Our drug laws are hurting patients and criminalizing thousands of otherwise law-abiding New Yorkers. I support legalization, taxation, and regulation of marijuana in general.

Section 2: Housing and Public Assistance for Low Income New Yorkers (Sal Albanese)
6. Instruct HASA to pay the full fee to apartment brokers who are assisting HASA clients with finding safe and affordable housing.
7. Instruct HASA to remove the current requirement that clients seek drug counseling in order to qualify for enhanced rental assistance
8. What is your position on implementing a 30% rent cap for HASA clients living in independent housing?
9. What is your position on the use of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units as a solution for long-term housing?

Section 3: Homeless and Runaway Youth at Risk for HIV (Sal Albanese)
10. What is your position on maintaining the NYC Department of Children and Family Services program that matches LGBT youth in the foster care system with LGBT foster and adoptive parents?
11. What is your position on increasing funding to provide more shelter beds specifically for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
12. What is your position on funding supportive services, including workforce development, GED programs, and crisis case management for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
Additional comments: First of all, we need a Mayor who believes that youth homelessness is a real problem! The best approach to addressing homelessness in the long-term is to build a fairer society. By ﬁghting discrimination and expanding access to better schools, health care, inclusive housing, and jobs, we can prevent thousands of New Yorkers from entering the vicious cycle that leads to homelessness. I will expand the city’s work with community-based organizations working to foster understanding and reconnect at-risk youth with their families. I will also encourage medical schools and medical and mental health institutions to inclusive better training programs so that healthcare professionals are prepared to assist LGBTQ youth in abusive relationships.

Section 4: Older Adults Living with HIV (Sal Albanese)
13. What is your position on fully funding the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide services for older adults living with HIV?
14. What is your position on maintaining the SAGE Center for LGBT Seniors and expanding access to similar services for older adults throughout New York City?

Section 5: Women's Health and HIV (Sal Albanese)
15. What is your position on increasing funding for new HIV prevention initiatives that address the needs of all women, including those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?

Section 6: Education & School Safety (Sal Albanese)
16. What is your position on implementing comprehensive sex education in New York City schools?
17. What is your position on implementing the Dignity for All Students Act to help mitigate instances of bullying in New York City schools?

Section 7: Public Safety (Sal Albanese)
18. Working with the District Attorney’s offices and the New York City police to ensure that condoms are not collected and filed as evidence of illicit activity.
19. Passing legislation (intro. 1080) to reform New York City police department’s current stop and frisk policy.
Additional comments: I have battled discrimination for my entire career, from casting the swing vote on the 1986 LGBT rights bill to passing the nation's ﬁrst resolution supporting affrmative action requirements for companies doing business in Northern Ireland to prevent anti-Catholic bias. While Intro 1080 is well-intended, it basically shifts policymaking from the democratically-elected City Council to the Courts. That is bad for policing and bad for our communities.

Section 8: New York City and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (Sal Albanese)
20. The National HIV/AIDS strategy envisions that “the United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.” Please share how you will work to make this vision a reality in New York City
Response: While incredible progress has been made, HIV/AIDS is not a problem of the past. Too many New Yorkers are still suffering for us to rest on our laurels. From baselining HASA to recreating the Mayor's AIDS Policy Offcer to eliminating barrier to quality healthcare, an Albanese administration would work diligently to eliminate HIV/AIDS associated stigma and obstacles to proper treatment.


Section 1: Healthcare (Bill de Blasio)
1. Fully fund HHC programs that provide HIV testing, care, and support services.
2. Maintain the current HASA case worker to client ratios at 1:36 as governed by New York City’s local law 49.
3. Fully fund housing support services for low income people living with HIV.
4. Fully fund food and nutrition services for low-income people living with HIV.
5. What is your position on allowing New Yorkers to legally use medical marijuana if prescribed by a physician?
Additional comments: I will instruct the NYPD to stop misguided prosecutions for possession of low-level amounts of marijuana and push for the passage of Governor Cuomo’s law removing criminal penalties for marijuana possession under 15 grams.

Section 2: Housing and Public Assistance for Low Income New Yorkers (Bill de Blasio)
6. Instruct HASA to pay the full fee to apartment brokers who are assisting HASA clients with finding safe and affordable housing.
7. Instruct HASA to remove the current requirement that clients seek drug counseling in order to qualify for enhanced rental assistance
8. What is your position on implementing a 30% rent cap for HASA clients living in independent housing?
9. What is your position on the use of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units as a solution for long-term housing?
Additional comments: Under federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) guidelines, people who receive public housing assistance pay no more than 30% of their income towards rent. This is currently not the case for all housing assistance programs in New York City.

Section 3: Homeless and Runaway Youth at Risk for HIV (Bill de Blasio)
10. What is your position on maintaining the NYC Department of Children and Family Services program that matches LGBT youth in the foster care system with LGBT foster and adoptive parents?
11. What is your position on increasing funding to provide more shelter beds specifically for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
12. What is your position on funding supportive services, including workforce development, GED programs, and crisis case management for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?

Section 4: Older Adults Living with HIV (Bill de Blasio)
13. What is your position on fully funding the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide services for older adults living with HIV?
14. What is your position on maintaining the SAGE Center for LGBT Seniors and expanding access to similar services for older adults throughout New York City?
Additional comments: Ensuring the health and well-being of our city’s seniors through the maintenance of senior housing and senior centers will be a top priority for me – and that includes the protection and care of LGBT seniors.

Section 5: Women's Health and HIV (Sal Albanese)
15. What is your position on increasing funding for new HIV prevention initiatives that address the needs of all women, including those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?
Additional comments: I will work with all stakeholders to ensure that we are providing quality HIV prevention programs for all women, including those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.

Section 6: Education & School Safety (Bill de Blasio)
16. What is your position on implementing comprehensive sex education in New York City schools?
17. What is your position on implementing the Dignity for All Students Act to help mitigate instances of bullying in New York City schools?
Additional comments: I have a page on my NYC Public Advocate website devoted to the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA): http://advocate.nyc.gov/bullying/DASA

Section 7: Public Safety (Bill de Blasio)
18. Working with the District Attorney’s offices and the New York City police to ensure that condoms are not collected and filed as evidence of illicit activity.
19. Passing legislation (intro. 1080) to reform New York City police department’s current stop and frisk policy.
Additional comments: I am the only Democratic mayoral candidate who supports appointing a new police commissioner, creating an independent Inspector General (IG) for the NYDP, and passing a ban on racial profiling.

Section 8: New York City and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (Bill de Blasio)
20. The National HIV/AIDS strategy envisions that “the United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.” Please share how you will work to make this vision a reality in New York City
Response: People living with HIV/AIDS deserve and need to be treated with the greatest amount of care, protection, and compassion by the officials of this city. While Chair of the City Council’s General Welfare committee, I authored and passed legislation to cut red tape and expedite applications for medically supportive housing for New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS. When the Bloomberg Administration proposed cuts to vital HIV prevention programs, even as infection rates were rising, I fought to keep those programs fully funded. As Mayor, I will seek to ensure that every New Yorker with HIV/AIDS has access to treatment, social support, and the housing and food needed to keep their health at safe levels. I also strongly support comprehensive sex education in our city’s schools, to make sure our youth are fully aware of how to protect themselves from contracting HIV/AIDS and other STDs.


Section 1: Healthcare (John Liu)
1. Fully fund HHC programs that provide HIV testing, care, and support services.
2. Maintain the current HASA case worker to client ratios at 1:36 as governed by New York City’s local law 49.
3. Fully fund housing support services for low income people living with HIV.
4. Fully fund food and nutrition services for low-income people living with HIV.
5. What is your position on allowing New Yorkers to legally use medical marijuana if prescribed by a physician?

Section 2: Housing and Public Assistance for Low Income New Yorkers (John Liu)
6. Instruct HASA to pay the full fee to apartment brokers who are assisting HASA clients with finding safe and affordable housing.
7. Instruct HASA to remove the current requirement that clients seek drug counseling in order to qualify for enhanced rental assistance
8. What is your position on implementing a 30% rent cap for HASA clients living in independent housing?
9. What is your position on the use of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units as a solution for long-term housing?

Section 3: Homeless and Runaway Youth at Risk for HIV (John Liu)
10. What is your position on maintaining the NYC Department of Children and Family Services program that matches LGBT youth in the foster care system with LGBT foster and adoptive parents?
11. What is your position on increasing funding to provide more shelter beds specifically for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
12. What is your position on funding supportive services, including workforce development, GED programs, and crisis case management for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?

Section 4: Older Adults Living with HIV (John Liu)
13. What is your position on fully funding the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide services for older adults living with HIV?
14. What is your position on maintaining the SAGE Center for LGBT Seniors and expanding access to similar services for older adults throughout New York City?
Additional comments: In the People's Budget, I call for restoring cuts to DFTA and increasing funding to keep up with the City's growing Senior population.

Section 5: Women's Health and HIV (John Liu)
15. What is your position on increasing funding for new HIV prevention initiatives that address the needs of all women, including those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?

Section 6: Education & School Safety (John Liu)
16. What is your position on implementing comprehensive sex education in New York City schools?
17. What is your position on implementing the Dignity for All Students Act to help mitigate instances of bullying in New York City schools?

Section 7: Public Safety (John Liu)
18. Working with the District Attorney’s offices and the New York City police to ensure that condoms are not collected and filed as evidence of illicit activity.
19. Passing legislation (intro. 1080) to reform New York City police department’s current stop and frisk policy.
Additional comments: I have been a vocal advocate for eliminating the NYPD's Stop and Frisk policy.

Section 8: New York City and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (John Liu)
20. The National HIV/AIDS strategy envisions that “the United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.” Please share how you will work to make this vision a reality in New York City
Response: First, I will make sure that the agencies that provide services to people with HIV/AIDS are fully funded. My People's Budget outlines how I will ﬁnd ways to generate the revenues that provide these critical resources. Second, I will emphasize education. GMHC helped in dramatically reducing HIV/AIDS for gay men, largely through education. That model can be used to reach out to other populations through the City. Third, I would emphasize outreach to communities that are too often overlooked. This will mean working closely with non-proﬁts that know those communities the best and leveraging their expertise. The National HIV/AIDS strategy is commendable and can be achieved locally with the right priorities and utilizing the local expertise of our non-proﬁt communities


Section 1: Healthcare (Christine Quinn)
1. Fully fund HHC programs that provide HIV testing, care, and support services.
2. Maintain the current HASA case worker to client ratios at 1:36 as governed by New York City’s local law 49.
3. Fully fund housing support services for low income people living with HIV.
4. Fully fund food and nutrition services for low-income people living with HIV.
5. What is your position on allowing New Yorkers to legally use medical marijuana if prescribed by a physician?
Additional comments: As mayor, I will return the city to its standing as a nationwide leader in the ﬁght against HIV and AIDS by creating a mayor’s Offce of HIV/AIDS Policy. Because the city’s HIV/ AIDS related programs and services span multiple city agencies, they can be most effectively coordinated and administered through an offce at City Hall. This new offce will focus both on prevention efforts as well as treatments and services for those living with HIV/AIDS. It will also ensure that the city is using the very best state-of-the-art prevention and treatment protocols for New Yorkers. I will also make sure that HIV/AIDS educational messaging is effectively targeted to all at-risk New Yorkers, including our young people and our seniors

Section 2: Housing and Public Assistance for Low Income New Yorkers (Christine Quinn)
6. Instruct HASA to pay the full fee to apartment brokers who are assisting HASA clients with finding safe and affordable housing.
7. Instruct HASA to remove the current requirement that clients seek drug counseling in order to qualify for enhanced rental assistance
8. What is your position on implementing a 30% rent cap for HASA clients living in independent housing?
9. What is your position on the use of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units as a solution for long-term housing?
Additional comments: Substance abuse is an especially dangerous proposition for individuals with HIV/AIDS as their health is already compromised. The risks don’t just fall on the individual with the substance abuse problem, as there are also increased risks of transmission of HIV to others due to increased risky behaviors such as unsafe sex and needle sharing. I believe it is good policy to design incremental incentives for victims of drug addiction to get the help they need, while simultaneously making sure that no HASA client is denied a permanent housing placement due to non-compliance in seeking treatment. I have committed to advocate for LGBT New Yorkers in Albany and Washington, D.C. There are numerous pieces of legislation pending in Albany and Washington, D.C. that are of tremendous importance to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender New Yorkers, including the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, federal anti-bullying legislation, immigration equality and marriage equality. I am committed to using the techniques I successfully employed in my advocacy for New York State same-sex marriage legislation to continue to advocate at the federal and state levels for the rights of LGBT New Yorkers. Here in New York State, I will ensure that the Governor and the state legislature understand the importance to New York City residents of legislation like the 30 percent rent cap for people living with HIV/AIDS to equalize treatment with other low income New Yorkers. And, if the State Senate fails to do its job and pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban discrimination against transgender New Yorkers, I will advocate strongly for the passage of the bill in the next session.

Section 3: Homeless and Runaway Youth at Risk for HIV (Christine Quinn)
10. What is your position on maintaining the NYC Department of Children and Family Services program that matches LGBT youth in the foster care system with LGBT foster and adoptive parents?
11. What is your position on increasing funding to provide more shelter beds specifically for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
12. What is your position on funding supportive services, including workforce development, GED programs, and crisis case management for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
Additional comments: I have committed to ensuring that no young person in New York City ever needs to spend the night on the streets. I will make sure our budget consistently grants enough funding so that every runaway and homeless youth has access to an appropriate shelter bed, including the 40 percent of which are typically used by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. By ensuring that funding for shelter beds are made permanent, advocates can shift focus from budget advocacy to helping youth obtain GEDs, learn trade skills, access physical and mental health services, and get on the path to ﬁnancial independence. I will also direct city agencies to explore how to more e"ectively serve our 18-24 year old homeless youth as they age out of federal and state regulated programs.

Section 4: Older Adults Living with HIV (Christine Quinn)
13. What is your position on fully funding the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide services for older adults living with HIV?
14. What is your position on maintaining the SAGE Center for LGBT Seniors and expanding access to similar services for older adults throughout New York City?
Additional comments: I have publicly committed to building New York City’s ﬁrst LGBT senior housing community. As mayor, I will make New York City a nationwide leader in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender senior housing by creating senior affordable housing units at which we can help build an LGBT senior community. While this community will be available to all older adults, it will offer services focused on the LGBT community, including social and cultural services, helping connect seniors with available beneﬁts, and economic case management and income security services. In order to better serve all of our older LGBT New Yorkers, I will also incentivize existing senior service providers to provide LGBT cultural competency training for their sta", and make sure city funding is available for these trainings.

Section 5: Women's Health and HIV (Christine Quinn)
15. What is your position on increasing funding for new HIV prevention initiatives that address the needs of all women, including those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?
Additional comments: As mayor, I will make sure city programs are effectively serving and accessible to all LGBT New Yorkers by including sexual orientation and gender identity in all data collection and outreach. In order for New York City to provide effective services to all of our residents and present these services in a welcoming and a#rming way we need to collect the appropriate data about our citizens’ needs and service outcomes. But right now many city surveys don’t include the option for New Yorkers to indicate their sexual orientation or gender identity. As mayor, I will ensure that surveys and other data collection by the city include appropriate categories for tracking LGBT residents, especially transgender New Yorkers, who may have very distinct health and other needs.

Section 6: Education & School Safety (Christine Quinn)
16. What is your position on implementing comprehensive sex education in New York City schools?
17. What is your position on implementing the Dignity for All Students Act to help mitigate instances of bullying in New York City schools?
Additional comments: As Speaker, I worked with the Dept. of Education to create one of the strongest antibullying programs in the country. “Respect for All” teaches students, parents and teachers how to combat bullying in schools by not only standing up to it, but by learning more about what makes us different. New York City’s diversity is one of our greatest strengths and we must do everything in our power to preserve the respect that binds us together.

Section 7: Public Safety (Christine Quinn)
18. Working with the District Attorney’s offices and the New York City police to ensure that condoms are not collected and filed as evidence of illicit activity.
19. Passing legislation (intro. 1080) to reform New York City police department’s current stop and frisk policy.
Additional comments: I oppose [intro 1080], but as detailed below, I do support reform of the current stop and frisk policy. On the issue of Stop, Question and Frisk, I believe it is an important tool that allows our offcers to take immediate action when they see suspicious behavior, but it has also risen to unacceptable levels, sown distrust of police among many communities of color, and has not led to a major increase in the conﬁscation of signiﬁcant contraband. At my request, the NYPD has taken steps to improve training, monitoring, and protocols around Stop and Frisk, and created an early warning system to identify o#cers who receive public complaints. Since then we’ve seen the number of stops go down, and as mayor I will ensure that this trend continues. I will improve oversight of and community relations with the NYPD. Experts from all across the political spectrum agree that community relations are central to good policing. It makes community members more likely to come forward with information, and helps keep both offcers and citizens safe. One critical way to continue to improve police community relations is by increasing oversight of the NYPD. I am working to create an inspector general in the Department of Investigations, who will be tasked with reviewing and making recommendations on NYPD policies and practices. Many other cities and law enforcement agencies, such as Los Angeles and the FBI, currently have an inspector general. After Los Angeles instituted an inspector general, crime actually fell by 33 percent, and public satisfaction with the LAPD rose to 83 percent. The inspector general will not pose any kind of threat to the authority of the mayor or the police commissioner. The buck will and should stop with the mayor, because as much as we need to continue to improve trust and accountability, it’s critical that we avoid anything that would damage the department’s ability to keep us safe. I have vowed to make New York City the ﬁrst city to completely eradicate hate crimes. Ending hate crimes will be among my top priorities as mayor. We must end attacks against New Yorkers based on who they love, where they are from, what language they speak, or what religion they believe in. I will ensure appropriate police presence in areas where hate crime incidents occur, and will work with schools to strengthen curricula and activities that promote tolerance and respect for all. I’ll also continue to ensure that community anti-violence organizations consistently receive the funding needed to combat hate violence, and will also push for additional public awareness of hate crime issues through community forums, marketing campaigns and special events that engage communities of faith, such as the Interfaith Weekend Against Hate.

Section 8: New York City and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (Christine Quinn)
20. The National HIV/AIDS strategy envisions that “the United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.” Please share how you will work to make this vision a reality in New York City
Additional comments: As Speaker, I have provided $13 million to the Health and Hospital Corporation to test approximately 1.3 million New Yorkers for HIV; arranged a public private partnership to provide free HIV rapid testing for over 10,000 patients at the public hospitals; provided more than $17 million for HASA housing and services; launched the “I Talk Because” campaign to spread awareness of HIV/AIDS, which was named one of Mashable’s top 10 YouTube Campaigns Making a Difference; worked with Empire State Pride Agenda and The Calamus Foundation to conduct an in depth study of health disparities in New York City’s LGBT community and launched a Faith Based Initiative to engage clergy and community members in efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. As Mayor, I will return the city to its standing as a nationwide leader in the ﬁght against HIV and AIDS by creating a mayor’s Offce of HIV/AIDS Policy. Because the city’s HIV/AIDS related programs and services span multiple city agencies, they can be most effectively coordinated and administered through an o#ce at City Hall. This new o#ce will focus both on prevention efforts as well as treatments and services for those living with HIV/AIDS. It will also ensure that the city is using the very best state of-the-art prevention, testing and treatment protocols for New Yorkers, and that these services and life extending care is made available to all. HIV prevention is a complicated, ongoing issue, and our approach needs to address the diversity of issues and needs among various at-risk populations, including our young people and our seniors) by using targeted HIV/AIDS educational messaging designed to help our citizens maintain safer sex throughout their lifetimes.


Section 1: Healthcare (Bill Thompson)
1. Fully fund HHC programs that provide HIV testing, care, and support services.
2. Maintain the current HASA case worker to client ratios at 1:36 as governed by New York City’s local law 49.
3. Fully fund housing support services for low income people living with HIV.
4. Fully fund food and nutrition services for low-income people living with HIV.
5. What is your position on allowing New Yorkers to legally use medical marijuana if prescribed by a physician?
Additional comments: As a City we should do everything possible to provide people living with HIV and AIDS with all the resources possible to live a healthy lifestyle. This City played an important part in teaching the world about HIV/AIDS and how to prevent it. It is misguided that we are no longer at the forefront of prevention e"orts and helping those with HIV/AIDS cope with their disease. As Mayor we will reverse course. We will work to improve testing, services, the living conditions and nutritional needs for all low-income people including those with HIV/AIDS.

Section 2: Housing and Public Assistance for Low Income New Yorkers (Bill Thompson)
6. Instruct HASA to pay the full fee to apartment brokers who are assisting HASA clients with finding safe and affordable housing.
7. Instruct HASA to remove the current requirement that clients seek drug counseling in order to qualify for enhanced rental assistance
8. What is your position on implementing a 30% rent cap for HASA clients living in independent housing?
9. What is your position on the use of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units as a solution for long-term housing?
Additional comments: Having low-income people pay any part of a broker’s fee for subsidized housing of any kind does not make any sense and is bad policy. The Bloomberg policy for subsidized housing and public assistance has been a disaster fraught with municipal waste. I support the 30% rent cap under the HUD guidelines. Forcing tenants that live in subsidized housing to pay more than 30% of their incomes for rent means that they will have less accessible income for important amenities and will often make these tenants more dependent on other government subsidies to make ends meet. Based upon New York City’s experience with SROs I don’t believe that it is a solution for long-term housing. We have seen that this system has been more costly under the Bloomberg administration than traditional public housing and that the conditions are often deplorable. Jennifer Flynn of the New York City Aids Housing Network has written extensively of the conditions of these SROs and of the huge costs and waste associated with them.

Section 3: Homeless and Runaway Youth at Risk for HIV (Bill Thompson)
10. What is your position on maintaining the NYC Department of Children and Family Services program that matches LGBT youth in the foster care system with LGBT foster and adoptive parents?
11. What is your position on increasing funding to provide more shelter beds specifically for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
12. What is your position on funding supportive services, including workforce development, GED programs, and crisis case management for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
Additional comments: I believe that the NYC Department of Children and Family Service’s matching program for LGBT has been working. A large percentage of our homeless are LGBT and homeless youth, and we have to do everything possible to increase the funding to help these young people, which means increasing funding for shelters and also to provide opportunities, supportive wraparound services for them so they are able to complete their education and learn the skills to be able to enter into the workforce. We are a compassionate City and we have to be able to prove that with the most vulnerable in our society, which includes our homeless individuals and families. We have strayed away from our moral compass as a City and we have to reverse that.

Section 4: Older Adults Living with HIV (Bill Thompson)
13. What is your position on fully funding the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide services for older adults living with HIV?
14. What is your position on maintaining the SAGE Center for LGBT Seniors and expanding access to similar services for older adults throughout New York City?
Additional comments: The Bloomberg Administration and the current City Council has politicized DFTA. Year in and year out the Mayor and Speaker threaten to close senior centers only to come to the rescue in the last minute. This is done for cheap political points. Under my administration we will never politicize our commitment to our senior citizens. DFTA requires more funding to be able to account for the fact that the elderly population will increase by 46 percent in the next 25 years. We will do everything possible to help DFTA provide services to our elderly that live with HIV and AIDS. I am proud of the fact that our City and San Francisco led e"orts to prevent discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS and as Mayor, we will continue to be the national model for tolerance and empathy to people with HIV/AIDS and provide them all the resources that they need.

Section 5: Women's Health and HIV (Bill Thompson)
15. What is your position on increasing funding for new HIV prevention initiatives that address the needs of all women, including those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?
Additional comments: We will work toward renewing the City’s commitment to HIV prevention. We will again lead the nation on discussing this issue and ﬁnd ways to reach out to all women particularly our black and Latina women to prevent the spread of HIV. Recently, I released a report on new HIV infections in New York City, which showed that overwhelmingly 78 percent of all new diagnosis were from the Black and Latino communities, with the majority of infections representative of women. As Mayor, I am committed toward increasing access, testing, support and education to combat the future spread of HIV.

Section 6: Education & School Safety (Bill Thompson)
16. What is your position on implementing comprehensive sex education in New York City schools?
17. What is your position on implementing the Dignity for All Students Act to help mitigate instances of bullying in New York City schools?
Additional comments: As the former President of the Board of Education, I fundamentally understand the importance of education to improve our society. Ultimately, I believe that sex education should be a balanced approach that focuses on irrefutable truths, which includes the fact that condoms and contraception reduce the infection of STDs and unintended pregnancies. We have to do more to curb bullying in our schools period. I think that the Dignity for All Students Act can help with this important goal.

Section 7: Public Safety (Bill Thompson)
18. Working with the District Attorney’s offices and the New York City police to ensure that condoms are not collected and filed as evidence of illicit activity.
19. Passing legislation (intro. 1080) to reform New York City police department’s current stop and frisk policy.
Additional comments: I oppose Intro 1080. I will reform Stop and Frisk as Mayor and protect the rights of New Yorkers. I believe that a new Mayor with a new Police Commissioner can implement policies to ensure that Stop and Frisk is only performed when there is reasonable suspicion that crime is afoot and a cop has reasonable suspicion that he/ she is danger or that the suspect has a weapon. Also, the City Council already has oversight over the NYPD and is free to call for hearings. More legislation is unnecessary. We have to work with all stakeholders who include social service providers, law enforcement, prosecutors and local government to stop prostitution in our city and provide greater social service/educational supports so that people at risk of entering a life of prostitution have greater opportunities and can lead a healthier life.

Section 8: New York City and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (Bill Thompson)
20. The National HIV/AIDS strategy envisions that “the United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.” Please share how you will work to make this vision a reality in New York City
Response: As I have stated earlier, New York City led the efforts to force the Country to address the issue of HIV/AIDS. When the rest of the country refused to discuss the issue we brought it to the forefront of society. When the rest of the country wanted to shun people with HIV/AIDS we sought to treat them with empathy and dignity. As a City we have the resources in place to again be at the forefront. We have world-class healthcare facilities; we have social service providers that are at the cutting edge and residents that cherish inclusiveness, tolerance and compassion. If we put all of these factors together with a local government that is committed toward leading the charge to help those with HIV/AIDS and educate its residents on prevention we can make the National HIV/AIDS strategy a reality in this City.


Section 1: Healthcare (Anthony Weiner)
1. Fully fund HHC programs that provide HIV testing, care, and support services.
2. Maintain the current HASA case worker to client ratios at 1:36 as governed by New York City’s local law 49.
3. Fully fund housing support services for low income people living with HIV.
4. Fully fund food and nutrition services for low-income people living with HIV.
5. What is your position on allowing New Yorkers to legally use medical marijuana if prescribed by a physician?

Section 2: Housing and Public Assistance for Low Income New Yorkers (Anthony Weiner)
6. Instruct HASA to pay the full fee to apartment brokers who are assisting HASA clients with finding safe and affordable housing.
7. Instruct HASA to remove the current requirement that clients seek drug counseling in order to qualify for enhanced rental assistance
8. What is your position on implementing a 30% rent cap for HASA clients living in independent housing?
9. What is your position on the use of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units as a solution for long-term housing?

Section 3: Homeless and Runaway Youth at Risk for HIV (Anthony Weiner)
10. What is your position on maintaining the NYC Department of Children and Family Services program that matches LGBT youth in the foster care system with LGBT foster and adoptive parents?
11. What is your position on increasing funding to provide more shelter beds specifically for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?
12. What is your position on funding supportive services, including workforce development, GED programs, and crisis case management for LGBT runaway and homeless youth?

Section 4: Older Adults Living with HIV (Anthony Weiner)
13. What is your position on fully funding the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide services for older adults living with HIV?
14. What is your position on maintaining the SAGE Center for LGBT Seniors and expanding access to similar services for older adults throughout New York City?

Section 5: Women's Health and HIV (Anthony Weiner)
15. What is your position on increasing funding for new HIV prevention initiatives that address the needs of all women, including those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?

Section 6: Education & School Safety (Anthony Weiner)
16. What is your position on implementing comprehensive sex education in New York City schools?
17. What is your position on implementing the Dignity for All Students Act to help mitigate instances of bullying in New York City schools?

Section 7: Public Safety (Anthony Weiner)
18. Working with the District Attorney’s offices and the New York City police to ensure that condoms are not collected and filed as evidence of illicit activity.
19. Passing legislation (intro. 1080) to reform New York City police department’s current stop and frisk policy.
Additional comments: Stop, question, and frisk is an important but incredibly misused tool. The current implementation of the policy, which results in 97% of those stopped being people of color and less than 1% of all stops yielding any crimes, isn't working. If I am elected mayor, I will work very hard to reform the way stop, question, and frisk is implemented without adding additional bureaucracy or red tape.

Section 8: New York City and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (Anthony Weiner)
20. The National HIV/AIDS strategy envisions that “the United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.” Please share how you will work to make this vision a reality in New York City
Additional comments: Under my administration, the City of New York work closely with community members, non-proﬁts, and the private sector to ensure all those who need services are able to access them as easily and affordably as possible.

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