Overview
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division put New York officials on notice and would not tolerate discrimination based on skin color.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he is keeping Cea Weaver as director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, while Weaver called some past statements regretful and emphasized a focus on affordable, safe housing.
- Resurfaced posts and an undated clip show Weaver labeling homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy” and urging property be treated as a collective good that would change how white families relate to ownership.
- Weaver’s role intersects with Mamdani’s tenant-first agenda, including planned “Rental Ripoff” hearings and a public stewardship proposal to press negligent landlords toward sales to the city.
- News reports noted a family tie to rental property involving Weaver’s father, and the episode follows a separate resignation of a Mamdani aide over unearthed antisemitic posts.