Chris Banks

Deputy leader, District 42, New York City Council

Raised NYCHA and public housing at 14 meetings, more than any other official we can identify. Named East New York most often: three times.

12 of 17transcribed meetings with their voice identified

1.6min a meeting at the New York City Council, at least

23 of 23present at roll calls, from the clerk

Chairs the Committee on Public Housing; sits on 4 more committees

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Three clips, newest first

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Banks raised, by number of meetings

NYCHA and public housing14 meetings
Shelters and homelessness4 meetings
Rent and the Rent Guidelines Board1 meeting

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call, and Banks’ other bodies

Present at 23 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: 3.6 min of speech a meeting, range 1.4–6.6. In the same range as six other members.
Committee on Public Housing: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Committee on Economic Development: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 44% and 61% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
Committee on Land Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on General Welfare: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Aging: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Public Housing: present at 7 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: present at 16 of 16 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Economic Development: present at 6 of 8 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection: present at 11 of 12 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Land Use: present at 13 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on General Welfare: present at 4 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Aging: present at 3 of 3 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: present at 2 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Oversight and Investigations: present at 0 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Public Safety: present at 8 of 8 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections: present at 1 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

What they talk about

Housing and tenants took the largest share of Banks’ speech with a checked topic: 75%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the City Council and its committees. 211 of 299 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Housing and tenants75%

Streets, traffic and parking0.9%

Neighborhoods Banks named

5 places Banks named in meetings

Lines where Banks named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

New York

East New York 3 times
Manhattan 2 times
Brooklyn 1 time
Brownsville 1 time
Canarsie 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) file (NYC Department of City Planning, via NYC Open Data). A dot says the place was named, not where Banks was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Banks’ voice

39, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Banks’ first remark.

Sep 30, 2026Committee on Economic Development3.5 min55:50
Sep 24, 2026New York City Council2.0 min41:47
Sep 22, 2026Committee on Public Housing30.7 min53:05
Sep 10, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics6.0 min5:49
Sep 10, 2026New York City Council2.3 min1:12:00
Sep 1, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics14.2 min2:03:11
Aug 13, 2026New York City Council2.2 min1:31:08
Jun 30, 2026New York City Council4.9 min29:24
Jun 17, 2026Committee on Public Housing22.7 min0:18
Jun 11, 2026New York City Council1.9 min1:05:42

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May 29, 2026Committee on Economic Development4.0 min1:42:16
May 29, 2026Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection4.0 min1:42:16
May 29, 2026Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure4.0 min1:42:16
Apr 29, 2026Committee on Public Housing41.2 minVideo
Apr 16, 2026New York City Council1.3 min1:20:10
Apr 10, 2026Committee on Public Housing47.5 min0:25
Apr 9, 2026Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection0.1 min2:45:04
Apr 6, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics5.9 min9:11
Mar 24, 2026Committee on Public Housing30.0 min0:42
Mar 23, 2026Committee on Land Use1.7 min2:24:17
Mar 17, 2026Committee on Economic Development4.8 min1:47:51
Mar 12, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics4.0 min18:33
Feb 27, 2026Committee on Economic Development3.0 min1:06:06
Feb 25, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics2.2 min32:00
Feb 24, 2026New York City Council3.7 min25:44
Feb 23, 2026Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection2.4 min21:04
Feb 23, 2026Committee on Land Use1.9 min17:34
Feb 12, 2026New York City Council2.6 min52:55
Jan 29, 2026New York City Council1.8 min1:36:25
Dec 18, 2025New York City Council2.2 min1:06:30
Dec 18, 2025Committee on General Welfare0.1 min9:29
Dec 9, 2025Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management2.6 min48:34
Dec 9, 2025Committee on Aging2.9 min28:12
Dec 3, 2025Committee on General Welfare3.9 min1:19:08
Nov 12, 2025New York City Council0.1 min39:34
Nov 12, 2025Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management0.1 min6:43
Oct 29, 2025Committee on Public Housing3.0 min0:20
Oct 29, 2025New York City Council2.0 min42:25
Oct 27, 2025Committee on Public Housing24.3 min5:12

How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

We identified Banks’ voice at 39 meetings across 10 bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Banks was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Chris Banks’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Banks said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Banks or of New York alone.