Ben Yee advocates for lowering costs by making the biggest polluters pay their fair share instead of working people footing the bill for fossil fuel expansion, building a more resilient grid, and stopping locking into the past.

Ben Yee states that rising costs, hospital closures, and unchecked consolidation have left communities without necessary care, and that healthcare must serve patients and reduce emergencies, not just manage them more expensively.

Ben Yee supports a vacancy tax, pied-à-terre tax, using state land for at least 50% affordable housing, creating a dedicated affordable housing fund, replacing AMI with cost of living metrics, restoring home rule for NYC housing policy, requiring regional transportation plans to reduce rent pressure, increasing mandatory affordable housing for tax breaks to 35%, providing grants for municipal development plans, and strengthening tenant protections including ending the housing court blacklist, housing access vouchers, housing court reform, and fully funding right-to-counsel.

Ben Yee states that schools are quintessential community institutions that educate future New Yorkers and can provide services beyond education to those in need.

Ben Yee states that fear is what ICE wants to spread, and that when communities are informed they are better equipped to protect one another.

Ben Yee supports closing corporate tax loopholes and asking the wealthiest residents and speculators to pay their fair share for public services.

Ben Yee notes that while reproductive rights are protected in law, access depends on income, insurance, and location, and that maternal health disparities are severe, with pregnancy-related deaths five times higher among Black non-Hispanic pregnant people.

Ben Yee advocates for requiring the Dept. of Transportation, MTA, and Port Authority to develop regional plans to reduce rent pressure on the urban core and integrate the metro area to expand housing and economic opportunity.

Ben Yee supports expanding voting rights by enabling no-excuse mail-in voting and same-day voter registration, instituting ranked-choice voting for general elections, allowing multi-member assembly districts, and making legislative results more transparent so voters can search bills passed, vetoed, or killed in committee.

Ben Yee states that government has lagged behind technological innovation and must set clear, enforceable rules that ensure AI strengthens human judgment, protects civil liberties, and serves the public interest.

Ben Yee states that New York’s mental health system is overwhelmingly reactive, and that significant investment is needed in intervention before crises to ensure mental health care is accessible to every New Yorker.

Ben Yee supports investing in strategies proven to reduce dangerous situations before they escalate, addressing instability, untreated illness, and systemic failure rather than managing consequences after the fact. He also states that criminalization is not a solution to addiction and that a public health approach is needed for the overdose crisis and open-air drug use.

Ben Yee states that New York has a responsibility to deliver real protection for LGBTQ+ people, especially trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people, codify those protections into law, and ensure they can live freely, safely, and with dignity.

Ben Yee supports expanding low-cost animal wellness services and redirecting outdated horse racing subsidies to public schools.

Ben Yee supports banning non-fiscal policy riders from the budget, strengthening NYC home rule, streamlining the courts, creating a truly independent ethics body in the state constitution, and making legislative results more transparent.

Ben Yee supports leveraging regional transportation and strategic investment in high-tech industries to turn New York into a global hub for innovation, ensuring future jobs are built in the state.

Ben Yee states that sexual violence is preventable and that evidence-based approaches should be prioritized, noting that over 60% of reported cases do not receive a meaningful investigation.