{"id":693,"date":"2026-06-27T05:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:36:16","slug":"anti-landlord-socialist-has-a-family-landlord-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Landlord Socialist Has A Family Landlord Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialist who just beat moderate leftist Adriano Espaillat in the New York primaries, has run on a platform of resistance to New York\u2019s profit-seeking landlords. However, a recent investigation just exposed her father as one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=691\">Gavin Newsom Takes Coward\u2019s Way Out On Major Left-Wing Demand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Public records show that her father Frank Avila, whom Chevalier claimed was a humble truck driver, had enough money to purchase<\/span><span> a condominium in Miami in 1998 for $92,900, the New York Post <\/span><span>reports<\/span><span>. This is about $193,000 in today\u2019s dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Similar units in the complex now average around $375,000, which means that her father has had a fourfold return on his apartment investment. This does not include the revenue her father receives from the apartment\u2019s tenant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>July 2025 records also show him taking a loan off the apartment complex, a traditional tactic New York landlords perform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Avila Chevalier ran a populist campaign centered on limiting market-rate housing and fighting \u201ccorporate greed,\u201d and once reposted a proposal on social media calling the <\/span><span>government to <\/span><span>\u201cseize all properties from landlords.\u201d<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chevalier has also argued that New York has given real estate too much to the free market, which erodes the identity of long-established, working-class neighborhoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=689\">U.S. Attacks Iran After Regime Breaks Ceasefire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn Congress, she\u2019ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.\u2019s broken political system. At a time when power is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, Darializa will fight in Congress for New York City\u2019s working families,\u201d her platform read. \u201cShe\u2019s the champion we need for a city New Yorkers can actually afford.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chevalier has argued that houses that are owned are kept in land trusts that limit how much landlords can own, though her father\u2019s property is in no such land trust.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[We should be] making sure that we are pushing back on bad landlords, making sure that we are also creating pathways to homeownership, investing in community land trusts and HDFCs, and making it so that people can actually stay in the city that they helped build,\u201d she <\/span><span>told<\/span><span> CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chevalier has not publicly spoken about her father\u2019s property or mentioned his status as a landlord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=688\">Ben Shapiro Reacts: Trump is BACK!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialist who just beat moderate leftist Adriano Espaillat in the New York primaries, has run on a platform of resistance to New York\u2019s profit-seeking landlords. However, a recent investigation just exposed her father as one of them.Public records show that her father Frank Avila, whom Chevalier claimed was a humble truck driver, had enough money to purchase a condominium in Miami in 1998 for $92,900, the New York Post reports. This is about $193,000 in today\u2019s dollars.\u00a0Similar units in the complex now average around $375,000, which means that her father has had a fourfold return on his apartment investment. This does not include the revenue her father receives from the apartment\u2019s tenant.July 2025 records also show him taking a loan off the apartment complex, a traditional tactic New York landlords perform.Avila Chevalier ran a populist campaign centered on limiting market-rate housing and fighting \u201ccorporate greed,\u201d and once reposted a proposal on social media calling the government to \u201cseize all properties from landlords.\u201dChevalier has also argued that New York has given real estate too much to the free market, which erodes the identity of long-established, working-class neighborhoods.\u201cIn Congress, she\u2019ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.\u2019s broken political system. At a time when power is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, Darializa will fight in Congress for New York City\u2019s working families,\u201d her platform read. \u201cShe\u2019s the champion we need for a city New Yorkers can actually afford.\u201dChevalier has argued that houses that are owned are kept in land trusts that limit how much landlords can own, though her father\u2019s property is in no such land trust.\u201c[We should be] making sure that we are pushing back on bad landlords, making sure that we are also creating pathways to homeownership, investing in community land trusts and HDFCs, and making it so that people can actually stay in the city that they helped build,\u201d she told CNN.Chevalier has not publicly spoken about her father\u2019s property or mentioned his status as a landlord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anti-Landlord Socialist Has A Family Landlord Problem - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=693\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anti-Landlord Socialist Has A Family Landlord Problem - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialist who just beat moderate leftist Adriano Espaillat in the New York primaries, has run on a platform of resistance to New York\u2019s profit-seeking landlords. 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This does not include the revenue her father receives from the apartment\u2019s tenant.July 2025 records also show him taking a loan off the apartment complex, a traditional tactic New York landlords perform.Avila Chevalier ran a populist campaign centered on limiting market-rate housing and fighting \u201ccorporate greed,\u201d and once reposted a proposal on social media calling the government to \u201cseize all properties from landlords.\u201dChevalier has also argued that New York has given real estate too much to the free market, which erodes the identity of long-established, working-class neighborhoods.\u201cIn Congress, she\u2019ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.\u2019s broken political system. 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