Expand NYC’s Consumer Protection Laws to explicitly include protections against unfair price hikes on essentials like groceries, rent, utilities, and medication, raising penalties on corporations that artificially inflate prices during crises.
Create a Price Monitoring Task Force to track inflation-driven price hikes and investigate potential corporate price gouging, particularly in supermarket chains and utility companies.
Increase Competition Against Corporate Monopolies
Expand Municipal Broadband & Public Utilities to offer affordable, city-owned alternatives to private internet, electricity, and water companies that overcharge consumers.
Support Public Grocery Initiatives by funding local food co-ops and community-owned supermarkets to provide affordable essentials and reduce reliance on price-gouging corporate chains.
Increase Competition Against Corporate Monopolies
Ban Junk Fees in Banking, Housing, & Utilities by prohibiting hidden service charges and excessive penalties that corporations impose on consumers.
Enhance Protections Against Predatory Lending by capping interest rates on payday loans and credit cards to prevent financial exploitation.
Close Corporate Tax Loopholes that allow large companies to avoid paying their fair share while small businesses and residents shoulder the burden.
Namra for NYC Council 