Overview
- Weaver, a longtime tenant organizer credited with helping pass New York’s 2019 renter protections, was appointed on Jan. 1 to lead the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.
- Old posts circulating online show her calling homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy” and urging the seizure of private property; she deactivated her X account and called some posts regretful.
- Mamdani has publicly defended her record, while federal civil-rights officials and major editorial voices have criticized the rhetoric and said they are watching the administration’s actions.
- Tenant allies including NYC-DSA and several state lawmakers praised Weaver, as landlord and business groups objected to the administration’s planned borough “Rental Ripoff” hearings and stepped-up pressure on building owners.
- The administration says Weaver was fully vetted, a point underscored after a separate appointee resigned over old antisemitic posts, and it is pressing forward with tenant-focused actions including scrutiny of a Brooklyn portfolio in bankruptcy.