Yuh-Line Niou

Niou received a bachelor’s degree in social policy from Evergreen State College and a master’s degree in public administration from Baruch College. Before her election to public office, she had worked as a legislative assistant, a special assistant in the Environmental Protection Agency, and as chief of staff to New York State Rep. Ron Kim (D).[1]

Yuh-Line Niou did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2026 Candidate Connection survey.

Yuh-Line Niou did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Niou's campaign website stated the following:

AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR NEW YORKERS

With billionaires dominating the political dialogue, the needs of working and middle class New Yorkers are getting ignored. Yuh-Line will fight for a fair economy that works for everyone, demanding that the rich and mega corporations pay their fair share, while investing in jobs, infrastructure and mass transit, childcare, education, healthcare, and housing.

HEALTH CARE

As long as our health care system is built to protect the profits of insurance companies and the medical industrial complex, we will continue to see unequal outcomes and massive bankruptcies caused by sky-high health costs. Yuh-Line will proudly fight for 100% universal, single-payer health care, rein in prescription drug costs, and demand global pandemic response.

A GREEN NIOU DEAL

In Albany, Yuh-Line’s leadership on climate was so well-known that local activists began calling her climate initiatives the “Green Niou Deal.” She will be a champion for GND in Congress, and fight to hold accountable the corporate executives who trashed our climate and left regular New Yorkers paying the bill for worsening storms and damaging floods.

HOUSING JUSTICE

For years, the Congress has continually failed to adequately invest in NYCHA, leaving public housing residents in grossly unsafe and unhealthy living conditions. Yuh-Line will fight for the funding our public housing deserves, as well as a new, national Mitchell-Lama style housing program that drives construction of 100% affordable housing.

IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

As an immigrant herself, Yuh-Line knows the challenges faced by those coming here to build this country and find a better life for themselves and their children. With the republicans locking in on hateful and cruel anti-immigrant policies, Yuh-Line will lead the fight to restore the dream that has brought people here for generations. She will demand an end to unfair refugee detentions and heartless deportations, work to eliminate ICE and embrace our nation’s historic role as a haven for immigrants.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

Trust between the public, especially communities of color, and the criminal justice system has eroded due to incident after incident of police brutality and demonstrated institutional racism. Additionally, the continual underfunding of education, housing, and social services are proven underlying causes of crime in our country.

In New York, Yuh-Line helped pass historic reforms to fix our broken criminal justice system. Yuh-Line worked to pass the Safer NY Act and repeal Bill 50-A. These bills expand policing transparency and accountability and remove protections for police officers that hide ongoing misconduct. Additionally, Yuh-Line has worked to reduce unnecessary arrests for non-criminal offenses and eliminate cash bail. In order to rebuild trust in our communities, Yuh-Line will work to expand funding of these social services and reduce the institutional damages of policing.

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—Yuh-Line Niou[11]

Yuh-Line Niou did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Yuh-Line Niou did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Niou's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

HOUSING

With housing costs skyrocketing, Yuh-Line will fight for tenants and homeowners to preserve and expand affordable housing and make sure that seniors can stay in the neighborhoods they’ve always known. As our Assemblymember, Yuh-Line will focus on the housing issues that matter most:

Stronger rent laws: We need to strengthen our rent laws to stop the destabilization of rent-regulated apartments. Yuh-Line will fight to eliminate vacancy decontrol and close the loopholes landlords use to deregulate apartments like vacancy bonuses, unfair MCI rent increases, and the preferential rent scam.

JOBS AND THE ECONOMY

Increasing the Minimum Wage: Yuh-Line is a strong advocate for increasing our minimum wage to $15/hour, so workers earning the minimum wage can make enough to survive in New York City. Increasing the minimum wage will also be better for taxpayers and our local economy, as more families will be able to graduate form public assistance, and they’ll have more money to contribute back into our local small businesses.

CLEANING UP ALBANY

Our community has been hurt by corruption like no other, and we need an Assemblymember who has the commitment and ability to clean up Albany and give us what we need as taxpayers. Yuh-Line will rebuild the voters’ trust by working only for us, and by fighting for common sense reforms that are long overdue.

Stripping pensions from corrupt politicians: It’s ridiculous that the taxpayers have to continue to pay for the pensions of the very people who stole their money. Yuh-Line will be a leader in the fight to pass a clean pension-forfeiture bill for politicians.

COMMUNITY SERVICES

Sheldon Silver’s conviction and removal from office means that our district will no longer have a veteran legislator with access to extensive staff and resources. Fortunately, Yuh-Line has served as a chief of Staff for a freshman legislator and knows how to create effective systems for helping constituents navigate state government to get the services they need.

Yuh-Line will bring that knowledge to her office and will expand her office’s outreach to make it easier for us. She will hold weekend and evening office hours, organize town hall meetings across the district and bring her office to us by holding constituent service days throughout the community.

SCHOOLS

As a product of public schools, Yuh-Line knows that great schools are the key to our kids’ future. Yuh-Line has been endorsed by the UFT because she’ll be a tireless fighter for better public schools, and work with parents, teachers and administrators to give all kids the opportunities they deserve.

Address schools overcrowding. Too many of our schools are just too crowded, and that needs to change. Yuh-Line will work to get the funds to bring new schools to our district, and she’ll oppose any new developments that don’t include plans for the increased demand on our schools, mass transit and infrastructure.[10]

—Yuh-Line Niou[12]