Historical injustices have held back Black, Brown, and low-income communities in this city for generations, and COVID-19 preyed on the failed policies of the past in devastating ways. It is time to heal the physical and financial health of these long-ignored New Yorkers, creating a city where everyone can compete, succeed, and play an equal part in our future

That includes:

• Connecting the poor to desperately needed services in low-income neighborhoods.
• Using our leverage as a client and our spending to create a fairer economy.
• Allowing tax-paying legal immigrants to vote in municipal elections.

We will bring the City to the

City agencies each keep their own records and data, with little productive interaction. Far too many New Yorkers fall through the cracks and it is largely up to government to find ways to help them.

My plan includes using technology to make government more effective by tailoring New Yorkers’ interaction with the City down to the person.

That includes:

• Building one digital platform – MyCity — for New Yorkers to access all City services.
• Creating a Recovery Score to track our progress with analytics.
• Coordinating a real-time service delivery system under my First Deputy Mayor.

Our MyCity portal will help small business

In crisis, the City always deals with the immediate problem and never the cause. Structural changes and smart management are necessary to create efficiency and reduce inequality across the board. In brief, I will do that by:

• Closing the budget gap without affecting public services.
• Instituting real-time governing.
• Finding and eliminating the waste.

We must build a single data platform for the entire City government.

Believe it or not, nearly all City agencies are siloed, operating separately from one another without sharing data or metrics, often duplicating efforts and resulting in waste, inefficiency and poor delivery of