Benjamin Yee is from New York City. He attended P.S. 234, East Side Middle, and Bronx Science High School.

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Benjamin Yee is from New York City. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in economics and political science and a degree in international relations from The London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Benjamin is an educator and technologist. He previously worked at an EdTech startup, where he helped build virtual classrooms and AI tools. He also served as secretary of the Manhattan Democratic Party and coordinated efforts for the 2009 vote for marriage equality in New York.

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Benjamin is an educator and technologist. He previously worked at an EdTech startup, where he helped build virtual classrooms and AI tools. He also served as secretary of the Manhattan Democratic Party.

Ben is currently a member of the New York State Democratic Committee representing Lower Manhattan. He was first elected in 2016.

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Working Families

Supports implementing progressive taxes on high-end real estate and top-tier income earners to address housing and transit crises.

Supports implementing progressive taxes on high-end real estate and high-tier income earners to address housing and transit crises.

- Supports implementing progressive taxes on high-end real estate and high-tier income earners to address housing and transit crises.

Economy

As of June 18, 2026, Benjamin Yee’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Supports measures to enhance public safety.

Supports K-12 age-appropriate education on consent.

Healthcare

Supports strengthening NYC Home Rule to grant the city constitutionally protected authority over local taxation, land use, and elections, advocating for routine self-governance without needing state permission.

Supports strengthening NYC Home Rule to grant the city constitutionally protected authority over local taxation, land use, and elections.

Supports treating federal overreach as a threat to civil rights and ensuring New York remains a safe harbor for reproductive care, gender-affirming care, and immigrant families.

Supports treating federal overreach as a threat to civil rights to ensure New York remains a safe harbor for reproductive care, gender-affirming care, and immigrant families.

- Supports strengthening NYC Home Rule to grant the city constitutionally protected authority over local taxation, land use, and elections.
- Supports treating federal overreach as a threat to civil rights to ensure New York remains a safe harbor for reproductive care, gender-affirming care, and immigrant families.

Voting & Elections

For Candidate Benjamin Yee on Issue public-safety: Advocates for strict prohibitions on state and local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and plans to sponsor the New York for All Act to protect residents from federal deportation efforts.

Advocates for strict prohibitions on state and local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and plans to sponsor the New York for All Act to protect residents from federal deportation efforts.

Supports transforming the carceral system through rehabilitation and endorses the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act, Marvin Mayfield Act, and Elder Parole.

Believes in investing in approaches that address instability, untreated illness, and systemic failure "rather than managing the consequences after the fact."

- Advocates for strict prohibitions on state and local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and plans to sponsor the New York for All Act to protect residents from federal deportation efforts.
- Supports transforming the carceral system through rehabilitation and endorses the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act, Marvin Mayfield Act, and Elder Parole.
- Believes in investing in approaches that address instability, untreated illness, and systemic failure "rather than managing the consequences after the fact."

Public Safety

Supports expanding civics education as essential for protecting democratic institutions and ensuring a functional democracy.

Supports modernizing the education curriculum to include mandatory civics, consent education, and financial fluency.

- Supports expanding civics education as essential for protecting democratic institutions and ensuring a functional democracy.
- Supports modernizing the education curriculum to include mandatory civics, consent education, and financial fluency.

Education

Supports drastically reducing rent pressure in urban areas by expanding the metro area and developing regional public transportation plans.

Supports passing pied-a-terre and vacancy taxes to reduce the incentive for international capital to treat New York City housing as an investment rather than a place for residents.

Supports passing pied-a-terre and vacancy taxes to reduce the incentive for international capital to "treat New York City housing as an investment rather than a place for residents."

Supports increasing mandatory affordable housing for tax breaks to 35%.

Supports providing grants to municipal governments for creating comprehensive development plans approved by local legislators.

Supports requiring any development on State Land to include a minimum of 50% affordable housing, with incentives for more.

Supports creating an Affordable Housing lockbox funded by vacancy and pied-à-terre taxes to support high-density, affordable housing near economic hubs in New York State.

Supports improving tenant protections by eliminating the housing court blacklist, reforming housing court, and funding right-to-counsel for tenants.

- Supports drastically reducing rent pressure in urban areas by expanding the metro area and developing regional public transportation plans.
- Supports passing pied-a-terre and vacancy taxes to reduce the incentive for international capital to "treat New York City housing as an investment rather than a place for residents."
- Supports increasing mandatory affordable housing for tax breaks to 35%.
- Supports providing grants to municipal governments for creating comprehensive development plans approved by local legislators.
- Supports requiring any development on State Land to include a minimum of 50% affordable housing, with incentives for more.
- Supports creating an Affordable Housing lockbox funded by vacancy and pied-à-terre taxes to support high-density, affordable housing near economic hubs in New York State.
- Supports drastically reducing rent pressure in urban areas by expanding the metro area and developing regional public transportation plans.
- Supports improving tenant protections by eliminating the housing court blacklist, reforming housing court, and funding right-to-counsel for tenants.

Housing & Urban Development

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Benjamin Yee

Supports New York as a safe harbor for reproductive care, gender-affirming care, and immigrant families, opposing federal overreach in healthcare.

For Candidate Benjamin Yee on Issue public-safety: Supports prohibiting state and local resources from facilitating federal deportation and aims to sponsor the New York for All Act to protect residents from federal overreach.

Supports prohibiting state and local resources from facilitating federal deportation and aims to sponsor the New York for All Act to protect residents from federal overreach.

- Supports treating federal overreach as a threat to civil rights to ensure New York remains a safe harbor for reproductive care, gender-affirming care, and immigrant families.

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