Council Members Call for $25M for ‘Our City, Our Vote’ Initiative, PoliticsNY

As city-budget negotiations are rumored to be wrapping up in the coming days, a coalition of City Council members and immigrant advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall calling on Mayor Eric Adams to put $25 million in funding into implementing a law that grants non-citizens the right to vote. At the rally organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Hanif was joined by her council colleagues Sandy Nurse (D – Brooklyn), Alexa Aviles (D – Brooklyn), Sandra Ung (D – Queens), Shaun Abreu (D – Manhattan) and Carmen De La Rosa (D – Manhattan). Also in attendance were immigrant advocacy organizations including African Communities Together, South Asian Council for Social Services and Masa.