Does Kathryn Garcia have the momentum to be the next mayor of NYC?
Democratic Mayoral Candidate Kathryn Garcia is distinguishing herself with her confidence in her operational experience.
All of the candidates in the June 22 Democratic primary are concerned with the welfare of their city and have ideas about how to better it. Kathryn Garcia best understands how to get New York back on its feet and has the temperament and experience to do so.
With the city on the rise after recovering from COVID-19, NYC needs a mayor who can handle reopening and shift the city towards the future. As Ed Koch said of himself in 1977: “After 8 years of charisma and 4 years of the clubhouse, why not try competence.”
Kathryn Garcia would be the first woman to hold the office and is the only candidate in the race with hands-on housing management experience. She served as the interim Chair of NYC Housing Authority – the largest public housing authority in the country.
Kathryn Garcia is differentiating herself with her unique focus on housing
Rather than fixating on units, she will focus on reducing the number of people who are sleeping on the street, who are rent-burdened, and who are in shelters. “We can’t keep trying to smush more and more New Yorkers into the same number of units, it just doesn’t work,” Garcia says in her campaign video on her housing plan. Her housing platform, titled “Housing That Heals,” argues that housing is intrinsically related to health and that New Yorkers with insecure or unsafe housing are less healthy than those who can obtain that housing, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kathryn Garcia is seeing her momentum rise, and with election day on June 22nd, it may be enough to win the race for the mayor of New York City. With her progressive stances, relatability, and a new ranked-choice voting system in place for the first time, it could be the force that puts her over the top. Her MFactor has surged from a 1 to a 16 in just 1 month, suggesting she may have enough to hold out the race.
The MFactor for Kathryn Garcia. MFactor is a proprietary tool that measures cultural momentum through topic modeling and sentiment analysis.
By using her experience at the NYC Housing Authority to explain her reliability, and initiatives like Housing That Heals to show how she plans to take action, Kathryn Gracia’s could be the next mayor of New York City.