So one of the issues that I want to address is homelessness and housing, because to the extent that everyone is not OK, we’re all not OK. Taylor: We’ve seen a huge increase in the number of apartments that are being built, but we’ve also seen a 20% increase in homelessness. That’s the path I’m trying to take up now.īklyner: Housing is top of mind for many residents in the city. And I think everybody that I talk to, whether you’re black or white or rich or poor, we all, you know, have that common ground where we think people should have certain basic needs - to have a roof over your head, food on the table, clothes on your back. We’ve been going down a path that isn’t working. We have to create the change that we want to see. From my perspective, we are only here for a certain period of time, and if we have to go through our lives dealing with these same issues and fighting these same fights and going through the same struggles without any hope, without any, you know, means out, no vision for anything – is that a life? We have to do better than that. Taylor: I am looking for us to be a city that is inclusive, a city that is proactive and not reactive, a city that is able to allow everyone that lives in this city to live comfortably. Joycelyn Taylor, Campaign photo.īklyner: What is your vision for the kind of city New York would be under your leadership? The conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. We spoke to Taylor on the phone last week about the race, the big issues facing the city – housing, education, policing and the need to put people first. Taylor announced her run for Mayor in the 2021 election last year, and along with Dianne Morales remains one of two lifelong Brooklynites in the race – neither Eric Adams nor Maya Wiley has formally announced their candidacies. She never left Brooklyn, and these days, Taylor is busy running her contracting company and running for Mayor.
#THE PINK HOUSES BROOKLYN DRIVER#
Her mom stayed home with her, her four sisters, and two brothers, while her dad worked as a bus driver for the MTA. Back then, hers was one of the first black families to move into the complex. Joycelyn Taylor grew up in the Pink Houses in East New York.
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