{"id":890,"date":"2026-05-19T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=890"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:16:48","slug":"osse-and-hanif-officially-join-dsas-city-council-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/osse-and-hanif-officially-join-dsas-city-council-bloc\/","title":{"rendered":"Oss\u00e9 and Hanif officially join DSA\u2019s City Council bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The democratic socialist organization now controls four seats on the New York City Council.<\/h2>\n<p>The New York City Democratic Socialists of America just doubled its official presence in the New York City Council. On Friday, the group formally admitted Council Members Chi Oss\u00e9 and Shahana Hanif to its City Socialist in Office bloc, which already included Council Members Tiffany Cab\u00e1n and Alexa Avil\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these new additions, our city socialists in office committee has now doubled in size and power,\u201d NYC-DSA Cochair Gustavo Gordillo said in a statement to City &amp; State. \u201cWith Zohran as Mayor and with our elected officials organized and working together, we can deliver on a true affordability agenda for working people in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/osse-and-hanif-officially-join-dsas-city-council-bloc\/411567\/\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The democratic socialist organization now controls four seats on the New York City Council.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Democratic Socialists of America just doubled its official presence in the New York City Council. On Friday, the group formally admitted Council Members Chi Oss\u00e9 and Shahana Hanif to its City Socialist in Office bloc, which already included Council Members Tiffany Cab\u00e1n and Alexa Avil\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/osse-and-hanif-officially-join-dsas-city-council-bloc\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}