Meet Joycelyn Taylor, Candidate for NYC Mayor

Meet the Candidate: Joycelyn Taylor Looks to Become City’s First Woman Mayor

BY Shanel Dawson New York City

PUBLISHED 9:33 PM ET Dec. 17, 2020 PUBLISHED 9:33 PM EST Dec. 17, 2020

NEW YORK — There’s never been a woman elected mayor of New York City, but there are five women in the very crowded mayoral primary who are hoping to change that — and that includes Brooklyn-native and entrepreneur Joycelyn Taylor.

Taylor, who joined anchor Errol Louis on Inside City Hall on Thursday night to talk about her campaign, calls herself a “working-class Democrat" and said she’s running for mayor because she’s grown weary of the classic bureaucratic talking points with little action from elected officials.

“I’m exhausted. I’m tired of us having the continual conversations about housing, homelessness, food insecurity, health care, the education, as though we have no ability to create change,” she said.

“Government has become a government that doesn’t listen to the people," she added. "We’re just not seen the long-term solutions that we need.”

And when asked about affordable housing, she said she would reinvest in the city’s public housing system and create a path to ownership for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents.

“We have money to be able to fix NYCHA, to create ownership opportunities for those NYCHA residents,” Taylor said. “The same money that we’re going to give to developers through RAD, through Section 8, we need to invest that money into fixing NYCHA and creating ownership opportunities.”

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