Overview
- Resurfaced posts show Cea Weaver wrote in 2017 that home ownership is a “weapon of white supremacy” and in 2018 that there is no such thing as a “good” gentrifier.
- In a PIX11 interview, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he does not share those views and is keeping Weaver as head of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants because of her work.
- Weaver told Spectrum News she regrets some of her past statements and said they are not how she would express herself today.
- New York Post opinion pieces argue the administration’s tenant-first agenda, including promised rent freezes and borough “rental ripoff” hearings, signals hostility to private landlords and could depress housing supply.
- Commentary highlighted claims of tens of thousands of vacant rent-regulated units and cited 2019 state limits on rent hikes for major repairs, and the Post also reported Weaver became emotional when questioned about a $1.6 million home owned by her mother in Nashville.