Housing advocacy organization Engine 6 is endorsing several candidates for City Council in November’s election.

The group has named five candidates in contested races as being in line with Engine 6’s pro-housing vision and agenda: Maria Greenberg, Cyrus Dahmubed, Josh Krintzman, Sean Roche and Garry Miller.

“We based our endorsements on the candidates’ responses to our Candidate Questionnaire, their voting records (if incumbents), and their experience,” Engine 6’s Lynne Weissberg wrote in announcing the picks. “These candidates recognize that to be a truly welcoming and diverse community, Newton needs to build more housing, both market-rate and affordable. They also understand that building more densely in locations with easy access to public transit and amenities is critical to addressing the global climate crisis.”

Greenberg has served as ward councilor for Ward 1 since 2018, is seeking a fifth term, and has spent the past eight years advocating for more affordable housing. She was also a proponent of the controversial village centers high density rezoning that brought the city into compliance with the MBTA Communities Act and was a factor in several pro-housing councilors losing their seats in 2023. She’s running against JJ Kazakoff-Eigen.

Krintzman has also served on the City Council—he’s one of two at-large councilors from Ward 4—for eight years and has advocated for more housing as a means of new growth and tax base expansion, and he supported the village center rezoning effort as well. Also running for at-large seats in Ward 4 this year are John Chaimanis and Cyrus Dahmubed.

Dahmubed, also an endorsee of Engine 6, is an architect and political newcomer whose vision includes preserving smaller existing houses (which, in Newton, tend to be torn down for larger ones) and bringing in more housing diversity to allow seniors to downsize in Newton.

Roche is another newcomer to electoral politics, but he’s been involved with shaping city traffic-calming policy for years. And he’s running on a platform that includes affordable housing, housing diversity and allowing triple-decker homes to be built in Newton again. He’s running for one of two at-large seats in Ward 5, along with Ted Gross and Lisa Gordon.

Miller is running for the ward councilor seat in Ward 6, and has said he wants housing policy to focus on seniors, young families and workers, all of whom have been affected by the low housing supply in the region. He’s running against Julie Irish for that seat.

Newton’s election will be Nov. 4.

Engine 6 was launched in 2013 after Mayor Setti Warren refused to release funding for a project that would turn the historic Engine 6 firehouse into affordable housing units, citing neighbor concerns. A private developer eventually bought Engine 6 and turned it into high-end townhouses.