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This campaign may be over, but our movement is not
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This morning I stood once again in front of the Lucerne Hotel where men who were homeless were house
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This morning I stood once again in front of the Lucerne Hotel where men who were homeless were housed until last week. There I announced the end to my campaign for Mayor. I first met the homeless men of the Lucerne and their neighbors in the Upper West Side Open Hearts in September of 2020. It was a month before I announced my run. I went back to the Lucerne because it was a moving and miraculous model of a community coming together in an historic crisis of the pandemic to solve another crisis. Homelessness. The community that Open Hearts and the Lucerne residents developed has become an organized demand to end homelessness and create permanently affordable housing for ALL New Yorkers. [Maya](#) {NAME} -- This morning I stood once again in front of the Lucerne Hotel where men who were homeless were housed until last week. There I announced the end to my campaign for Mayor. I first met the homeless men of the Lucerne and their neighbors in the Upper West Side Open Hearts in September of 2020. It was a month before I announced my run. I went back to the Lucerne because it was a moving and miraculous model of a community coming together in an historic crisis of the pandemic to solve another crisis. Homelessness. The community that Open Hearts and the Lucerne residents developed has become an organized demand to end homelessness and create permanently affordable housing for ALL New Yorkers. I congratulated Eric Adams and called for us, as a City, to come together to cure what ails us at the Lucerne because it stands as a symbol of hope. Though the City has continued its inhumane policy of moving men out of hotels back into congregate shelters, they aren't giving up their fight. And neither will I. But I will leave the campaign trail to join the movement and to do my part. Yesterday's updated results from the Board of Elections means Eric Adams will be the second Black Mayor in the history of this City. It was a hard-fought race and this outcome has real meaning for many who feared rank-choice voting would mean less representation for Black voters. It didn't... Make no mistake. I ran to win and am proud that we earned hundreds of thousands of votes for a Black woman civil rights leader who didn't take a dime from real estate developers or lobbyists. We were outspent but we were also outspoken. We built up a policy platform through Peopleâs Assemblies and in partnership with advocates and communities. We showed a new way to run for a major political office. Together. I am so very grateful for all of you who helped us get this far. I didn't run for Mayor because I wanted to be a politician and sit at a big desk. I ran because I have a mission -- a mission to make the City we love more fair, more just and more affordable -- saving a generation of our kids with real opportunity, true public safety that builds up communities, including mental health and real affordable housing and so much more. Over the last nine months this mission has become a movement in support of that mission and movements don't come and go with election results. And this one is more necessary now than ever. If I was victorious, I would be asking this movement to stay engaged and hold us accountable. We are the leaders we have been waiting for and those who win elections serve the public. From the young man in Harlem who cried on my shoulder when I answered his question about mental health care, to the parents of children slain by gun violence and by police officers to the out of work actor who couldn't afford the rent, I hold on to the hopes, fears and resilience of all the New Yorkers I had the privilege to meet on this journey. And I carry with me the inspired gleam in the eyes of little girls who seemed to look at me and see a different possibility for themselves. I wouldnât trade the gift of those eyes for anything. My father was a civil rights activist, and a friend once asked him, "When do you stop?" He replied, "When no one else is hungry." His friend was incredulous and told him that would never happen. And my father told him: "Well, then you never stop." Our fight for the respect and dignity of all people is not done. And I will not stop. I hope you won't either. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Maya Paid for by Maya for Mayor, Inc Maya Wiley
1155 6th Ave, Floor 22
New York, NY 10036
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