New York — 13th District

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Supports universal housing rights and rent caps

Chevalier views housing as a fundamental human right and supports sweeping federal protections for tenants. Her platform includes capping rent increases at 5% annually for large landlords, expanding Section 8 vouchers, fully funding NYCHA public housing, and passing the Homes Act to build affordable co-ops and community land trusts.

• Co-sponsor the Homes Act to build deeply affordable public housing, co-ops, and community land trusts.
• Cap annual rent increases at 5% for large landlords on existing units.
• Fully fund NYCHA Section 9 public housing and expand Section 8 rental vouchers.
• Pass the Tenants Right to Organize Act to protect voucher recipients from landlord retaliation.

“Housing is a fundamental human right: everyone deserves dignity and stability in their homes.”

Manual Williams

Opposes gentrification evictions and landlord greed

Williams emphasizes protecting long-term district residents who face eviction due to landlord greed and gentrification pressures. He seeks to balance tenant protections with local economic development.

• Protect long-term residents targeted for evictions resulting from landlord greed.
• Mitigate the negative collateral consequences of the gentrification process in Harlem.
• Maintain economic growth and development while expanding resident protections.

“Protecting long term residents' interest who are being targeted for evictions and convictions due to landlords greed (collateral consequences of the gentrification process).”

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Supports $15 minimum wage and union protections

Chevalier focuses on economic security for working-class families by raising wages, bolstering union density, and expanding federal safety nets. She supports passing the PRO Act, creating a federal jobs guarantee, establishing universal basic income, and instituting a four-day, 32-hour workweek without loss of pay.

• Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour via the Raise the Wage Act.
• Pass the PRO Act to build union density and fully fund the National Labor Relations Board.
• Establish a 4-day, 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay and a federal jobs guarantee.
• Implement a federal moratorium on AI data centers to ensure technology benefits workers.

“As the cost of rent, groceries and utilities go up and up and up, the amount on our paychecks stay the same.”

Manual Williams

Supports small business recovery and job creation

Williams prioritizes economic recovery for local residents and small businesses following the pandemic. He advocates for job creation as a primary tool to reduce crime and recidivism, and supports dedicated market spaces for minority entrepreneurs.

• Promote pandemic recovery for local Harlem residents and small storefront businesses.
• Utilize job creation as a tool to combat local crime rates and lower recidivism.
• Develop the 'Black Lives Matter Market' project in Harlem to support local vendors and small businesses.

“Using Job Creation as too a tool to combat crime and recidivism.”

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Supports decriminalization and civil rights protections

Drawing from her background as a public defender investigator and sociology PhD student, Chevalier argues that current justice and immigration systems criminalize Afro-Latino and Black New Yorkers. She advocates for civil rights protections and ending enforcement practices targeting marginalized communities.

• Protect civil rights for Black, brown, undocumented, and LGBTQ+ community members.
• Address systemic criminalization of Afro-Latino and Black residents in New York.
• End punitive deportation and detention practices that separate families.

“As a PhD student, she studies how this system criminalizes Afro-Latino and Black New Yorkers.”

Manual Williams

Opposes stop-and-frisk and mass incarceration

Williams focuses on civil rights and justice reform, pledging to end practices leading to disproportionate mass incarceration of minority groups. He strongly opposes police tactics like 'stop and frisk' and advocates using job creation to combat recidivism.

• End practices that subject minority populations to disproportionate mass incarceration.
• Oppose the reinstitution of 'stop and frisk' police policies in New York City.
• Combat crime and recidivism primarily through targeted job creation.

“Oppose any new NYC Mayor, that may propose the reinstituting of past 'Stop & Frisk' policies.”

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Supports campaign finance restrictions and breaking up monopolies

Chevalier campaigns heavily against corporate influence in politics, rejecting corporate PAC funds and advocating for bans on super PACs and stock trading by members of Congress. She also supports breaking up corporate monopolies like Amazon and Facebook.

• Refuse all corporate PAC contributions.
• Ban super PAC money from federal elections and prohibit stock trading by members of Congress.
• Break up major corporate monopolies such as Facebook and Amazon.
• Pass the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act and Equal Tax Act.

“Darializa will never take a dime from corporate PACs.”

Manual Williams

Supports eliminating telecom and tech algorithmic discrimination

Williams calls for addressing discriminatory practices and algorithms implemented by major internet service providers and telecommunications corporations that harm minority business growth and online participation.

• Regulate major Internet and telecommunications providers regarding discriminatory practices.
• Eliminate corporate algorithms that hinder minority business efforts and online space.

“Address all discriminations practices and algorithms implemented by major Internet & Telecommunication providers that thwart and effects minorities' business efforts and online social space.”

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Supports abolishing ICE and citizenship pathways

Chevalier opposes existing immigration enforcement structures, calling to abolish ICE and dismantle the deportation machine. She advocates for pathways to citizenship for DREAMers and undocumented immigrants, alongside federal funding for free legal representation.

• Abolish ICE and expand legal pathways to citizenship for DREAMers and TPS recipients.
• Pass the American Dream & Promise Act.
• Mandate free legal representation for immigrants interacting with DHS.
• Enshrine legal protections against immigration enforcement at sensitive sites like pre-schools and places of worship.

“Abolish ICE and the deportation machine”

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Opposes arms transfers to Israel and foreign war funding

Under her 'Babies, Not Bombs' platform, Chevalier calls for defunding foreign wars to invest in domestic family support. She specifically supports the Block the Bombs Act to end U.S. weapon shipments to Israel used in Gaza and opposes foreign defense spending.

• Sign onto the Block the Bombs Act to ban weapon shipments to Israel used in Gaza.
• Redirect federal tax dollars spent on foreign wars into domestic child tax credits, universal childcare, and baby bonds.
• End U.S. spending on foreign military campaigns abroad.

“We must stop funding the bombing of children and families overseas, and start funding the programs here at home that can support our children reaching their full potential instead.”

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Supports single-payer Medicare for All

Chevalier treats healthcare as a universal human right, championing single-payer Medicare for All that encompasses vision, dental, hearing, mental health, and reproductive care. She also supports the Prescription Drug Price Relief Act to limit drug costs.

• Sign onto the Medicare for All Act to guarantee free, universal healthcare.
• Cover dental, vision, hearing, mental health, reproductive care, and gender-affirming care.
• Pass the Prescription Drug Price Relief Act to prevent pharmaceutical price gouging.

“Healthcare is a human right: access to care should not depend on one’s employment, age, or income.”

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Supports universal childcare and tuition-free public college

Chevalier advocates for comprehensive public education funding from early childhood through higher education. Her platform includes universal Pre-K, tuition-free community colleges, cancelling student debt, and halting charter school expansion.

• Pass the Child Care for Every Community Act for universal childcare and Pre-K.
• Pass the College for All Act to guarantee tuition-free public higher education.
• Cancel $1.7 trillion in outstanding student loan debt.
• Halt charter school expansion and fully fund disability and poverty programs in public schools.

“Everyone has a right to free, quality public education, no matter their zip code.”