Yudelka Tapia is serving her second term in the New York State Assembly representing the 86th Assembly District, which consists of the neighborhoods of University Heights, Morris Heights, Mount Eden, Kingsbridge, Tremont and Fordham in the Bronx.

Yudelka was born in the Dominican Republic and attended O&M University in Santo Domingo, where she organized her fellow students against domestic violence and political corruption and served as President of the Unión Democrática de Mujeres, a national organization that organized and educated women. She later obtained a Master of Science in Urban Policy and Leadership from Hunter College.

Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia Biography | New York State Assembly

Since immigrating to the West Bronx over 30 years ago, Yudelka has made the community her home, raising her four sons there and sending them to New York City public schools. For 23 years, she has worked as a Senior Auditor for the New York City Comptroller’s Office.

Yudelka Tapia was born in the Dominican Republic. She attended O&M University in Santo Domingo and earned a Master of Science in urban policy and leadership from Hunter College. She has four sons.

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Yudelka works as a senior auditor for the New York City Comptroller’s Office.

Yudelka Tapia is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 86th Assembly District since 2021. Tapia is a community activist and has worked on various initiatives to improve her community. She has focused on issues such as education, housing, and healthcare.

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Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia

Yudelka Tapia is serving her second term in the New York State Assembly representing the 86th Assembly District, which consists of the neighborhoods of University Heights, Morris Heights, Mount Eden, Kingsbridge, Tremont and Fordham in the Bronx.

Yudelka serves in the New York State Assembly representing the 86th Assembly District. She has represented the district since 2021 and is serving her second term.

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2026 New York General Election

Yudelka knows that small businesses play a key role in creating jobs and keeping our local economy vibrant. She’ll keep fighting to ensure that small businesses can keep their doors open and have the support they need throughout this crisis and beyond.

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Plans to support small businesses so they can remain open during and beyond the crisis.

- Plans to support small businesses so they can remain open during and beyond the crisis.

Economy

As our Assemblymember, Yudelka will fight to ensure our communities are safe and healthy for all people by increasing investment in sustainability efforts and key infrastructure upgrades, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring access to open space and clean water. Yudelka is committed to fighting for a robust climate resiliency plan that brings community members to the table and places the needs of our city’s most vulnerable front and center.

Plans to invest in sustainability and infrastructure, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, expand access to open space and clean water, and pursue a community-informed climate-resiliency plan.

- Plans to invest in sustainability and infrastructure, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, expand access to open space and clean water, and pursue a community-informed climate-resiliency plan.

Energy & the Environment

Healthcare

Healthcare is a human right, and Yudelka is ready to fight to ensure that every New Yorker has access to affordable, high quality health care, especially our low-income families, young adults, and communities of color.

Supports affordable, high-quality healthcare access for every New Yorker, particularly low-income families, young adults, and communities of color.

- Supports affordable, high-quality healthcare access for every New Yorker, particularly low-income families, young adults, and communities of color.

Healthcare

As of September 9, 2026, Yudelka Tapia’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Voting & Elections

Criminal Justice and Police Reform

We need to keep our communities safe beyond policing. For far too long, police budgets have grown at the expense of community programming and it’s clear they need to be cut. Investing more in community programs, youth opportunities, good-paying jobs, and mental health care and social services will go farther in keeping our communities truly safe.

Investing more in community programs, youth opportunities, good-paying jobs, and mental health care and social services will go farther in keeping our communities truly safe. It’s critical that we continue building on the transformative criminal justice reform legislation that state leaders have passed in recent years, including creating a prosecutorial misconduct review panel and raising the age of criminal responsibility.

If we want to reduce crime and gun violence, we need to concentrate resources on strong paths out of the cycle of incarceration that include re-entry programs, violence interruption programs, and alternatives to incarceration.

Yudelka has been on the front lines fighting for reforming open discovery, speedy trial reform, and the implementation of the historic bail reform legislation that has released thousands of legally innocent New Yorkers from jail. She will continue advocating for a more restorative approach to criminal justice by reforming sentencing laws, working to eliminate racial disparities in policing and punishment, ensuring due process, and holding law enforcement accountable.

To engage, educate, and empower our youth, Yudelka will work to expand after-school and summer learning opportunities and keep our communities safe by supporting gun safety laws and initiatives.

Calls for cutting police budgets and investing more in community programs, youth opportunities, jobs, mental healthcare, and social services.

Supports further criminal-justice reforms, including a prosecutorial-misconduct review panel and raising the age of criminal responsibility.

Calls for reentry programs, violence-interruption programs, and alternatives to incarceration to reduce crime and gun violence.

Plans to pursue sentencing reform, reduce racial disparities in policing and punishment, ensure due process, and hold law enforcement accountable.

Plans to expand after-school and summer learning opportunities and support gun-safety laws and initiatives.

- Calls for cutting police budgets and investing more in community programs, youth opportunities, jobs, mental healthcare, and social services.
- Supports further criminal-justice reforms, including a prosecutorial-misconduct review panel and raising the age of criminal responsibility.
- Calls for reentry programs, violence-interruption programs, and alternatives to incarceration to reduce crime and gun violence.
- Plans to pursue sentencing reform, reduce racial disparities in policing and punishment, ensure due process, and hold law enforcement accountable.
- Plans to expand after-school and summer learning opportunities and support gun-safety laws and initiatives.

Public Safety

Schools

For years, Yudelka has been fighting to make our education system in the Bronx more equitable, effective, and safe. She will continue working to reduce the disparities of resources in minority communities and ensure we fully fund our schools.

Yudelka knows that a high quality education is the key to a stronger future for our children. That’s why she’ll work to ensure students have the support they need and develop programs in conjunction with parents to close the achievement gap and effectively reduce the school drop-out of our middle and high school students, to ensure their high school graduation and the pursuit for higher education.

Plans to fully fund schools and reduce resource disparities in minority communities.

Plans to develop parent-supported programs to close achievement gaps and reduce middle- and high-school dropout rates.

- Plans to fully fund schools and reduce resource disparities in minority communities.
- Plans to develop parent-supported programs to close achievement gaps and reduce middle- and high-school dropout rates.

Education

Before the COVID-19 pandemic more than 36% of the families living in our Bronx neighborhoods were living below the federal poverty line. The pandemic has only created more challenges for these low-income families. We must build 100% sustainable, permanent affordable housing for extremely low and very low-income families, reform the broken 421-a program, and change the Area Median Income (AMI) formula, so that Bronx residents can have a fair shot at fair housing.

She began her political career as a Democratic District Leader. It reached new heights when she was elected to the State Assembly. Not long after she was sworn into office on January 5, the deadly fire that swept through an apartment in Tremont brought renewed attention to one of AM Tapia’s great concerns.

“I have been fighting for affordable housing forever. My district has a $21,000 median income. If affordable housing is not there, where are our families going to live? That’s the reason we have so many homeless families and children in shelters. This is something that bothers me every single day.”

AM Tapia is now part of a state, federal and local effort to pass legislation that will result in more and safer housing that Bronxites can afford.

Bronx Beat: Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia | Bronx Community College

Protect Tenants

Yudelka will fight to stop evictions, build upon the state’s historic rent regulations, hold bad landlords accountable, and protect tenants from housing discrimination and tenant harassment.

NYCHA is chronically underfunded, and the state must commit to funding major infrastructural improvement without jeopardizing the future of public housing stock through privatization or further neglect. Until then, we must support residents in their efforts to maintain livable conditions and ensure they do not shoulder the financial burden for doing the work NYCHA can't.

Calls for permanently affordable, sustainable housing for extremely low- and very-low-income families, reforms to the 421-a program, and changes to the Area Median Income formula.

Said affordable housing is necessary to address homelessness among families and children in her district.

Plans to prevent evictions, strengthen rent regulations, hold landlords accountable, and protect tenants from discrimination and harassment.

Calls for state funding of major New York City Housing Authority infrastructure improvements without privatizing public-housing stock.

- Calls for permanently affordable, sustainable housing for extremely low- and very-low-income families, reforms to the 421-a program, and changes to the Area Median Income formula.
- Said affordable housing is necessary to address homelessness among families and children in her district.
- Plans to prevent evictions, strengthen rent regulations, hold landlords accountable, and protect tenants from discrimination and harassment.
- Calls for state funding of major New York City Housing Authority infrastructure improvements without privatizing public-housing stock.

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- Plans to prevent evictions, strengthen rent regulations, hold landlords accountable, and protect tenants from discrimination and harassment.
- Calls for state funding of major New York City Housing Authority infrastructure improvements without privatizing public-housing stock.

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