Candidate Rick Del Rio
Candidate Rick Del Rio
Candidate Rick Del Rio
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6 RICK DEL RIO: FROM THE COMMUNITY, FOR THE COMMUNITY<br />
The Issues<br />
District 2 will celebrate economic<br />
development and housing<br />
initiatives that:<br />
• Preserve and expand essential<br />
businesses and community<br />
organizations such as locallyowned<br />
grocers and vendors, nonprofits,<br />
and houses of worship.<br />
• Balance market rate and<br />
affordable housing options.<br />
• Create living-wage jobs and<br />
economic opportunities for the<br />
underemployed.<br />
• Eliminate excessive vacancies<br />
and backlogged maintenance<br />
issues in NYCHA operated public<br />
housing developments.<br />
Stat and various NYPD tactics<br />
including Stop-and-Frisk.<br />
• Expand the NYPD Clergy Liaison<br />
program to empower grassroots<br />
peacemakers.<br />
• Reduce recidivism by expanding<br />
transitional programs and job<br />
options for ex-offenders.<br />
• Reduce illegal guns on the streets<br />
through expanded gun buy-back<br />
programs.<br />
• Empower gang intervention<br />
specialists and programs to<br />
create viable gang alternatives<br />
for disconnected youth.<br />
<strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong> has a vision to restore<br />
the community with economic<br />
development and housing initiatives.<br />
A VISIONARY YOU CAN TRUST<br />
<strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong> envisions a Manhattan<br />
Community District 2 that embraces<br />
its extraordinary economic,<br />
racial, cultural, and religious diversity<br />
while uniting around the core<br />
issues listed below. As your City<br />
Councilmember, <strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong> will<br />
represent the entire district while<br />
pursuing an agenda of opportunity<br />
and justice for all.<br />
AFFORDABLE HOUSING<br />
AND RESPONSIBLE ECONOMIC<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
<strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong> believes in economic<br />
development that grows<br />
and strengthens community, not<br />
displaces it. As your City Councilmember,<br />
he will fight to create and<br />
ensure affordable housing for our<br />
families, and protect our community<br />
from developments that destroy<br />
the character of our neighborhoods<br />
and threaten our public spaces.<br />
Under <strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong>’s leadership,<br />
• Redevelop the abandoned,<br />
city-owned Baruch Bath House<br />
as a holistic community and<br />
recreation center.<br />
COMMUNITY SAFETY<br />
<strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong> believes that the<br />
safest neighborhoods combine effective<br />
policing with community<br />
responsibility. As your City Councilmember,<br />
he will work to foster<br />
the peace and prosperity of our<br />
streets through partnerships with<br />
the NYPD, government agencies,<br />
after school and summer programs,<br />
local businesses and community<br />
stakeholders, and jobs and business<br />
incubators. He will promote<br />
compassion and justice through<br />
homeless outreach, social service<br />
referrals, community policing, and<br />
greater transitional supports and<br />
job opportunities for ex-offenders.<br />
<strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong>’s Community District<br />
2 will support public safety policies<br />
and programs that:<br />
• Increase transparency for Comp-<br />
INTENTIONAL YOUTH<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
<strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong> believes empowered<br />
youth can and will change the<br />
world. As your City Councilmember,<br />
he will mobilize community<br />
assets through public-private partnerships<br />
that respond to our students’<br />
needs and empower them<br />
as change agents in their homes,<br />
schools, and neighborhoods.<br />
<strong>Rick</strong> <strong>Del</strong> <strong>Rio</strong> will invest in outcomes-based,<br />
community youth<br />
development initiatives that:<br />
• Promote educational enrichment,<br />
art, and athletic opportunities for