Tell New York's Governor and State Legislators to Suspend Rent and Mortgages Now

We New Yorkers must demand an immediate suspension of rents and mortgages.

Click below to send an email to Governor Cuomo and your state legislators.

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As a constituent, I’m writing to let you know that the budget NYS just passed is shocking and immoral. The Governor and state legislative leaders are exploiting a national crisis to land deep cuts to social services, the same services that will be essential to fighting and recovering from this pandemic.

Not only does this budget cut education funding at a time when shuttered schools are struggling to stay afloat. Not only does it roll back hard-won criminal justice reforms, even as our prisons are ravaged by coronavirus. Not only does it neglect any funding for climate change, that other global crisis that ultimately threatens far more lives than COVID-19. But also this budget makes deep cuts to Medicaid, the social service most critical to making sure working class New Yorkers survive this pandemic.

After jeopardizing the health and safety of millions of New Yorkers with this elitist budget, the absolute least the Governor and state legislative leaders can do is help low-income New Yorkers stay in their homes. It is immoral to demand payment from people who have lost income through no fault of their own. A rent/mortgage moratorium is vital to keeping our state and economy stable--or at least as stable as they can be given the disastrous cuts that were just made to our social safety net.

That is why I’m calling on you to support a statewide moratorium on rent and mortgage payments during the coronavirus pandemic. This is only the beginning of undoing the damage wrought by this budget, but it’s an important step, and it should be taken immediately.

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