Overview
- In a 2021 Bad Faith podcast, Weaver said “white, middle-class homeowners are a huge problem” for renter justice and urged organizers to “undermine the institution of homeownership.”
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Weaver on Jan. 1 to lead the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants through an executive order reviving the office.
- On the same podcast, she backed universal rent control, the right to form tenant unions, blocking evictions, and funding rental assistance through higher taxes on the wealthy.
- Resurfaced posts include a since‑deleted 2019 message calling homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy,” drawing renewed public criticism.
- City Hall has defended Weaver as critics circulate additional clips about using rent control to advance social housing, and civil‑rights chief Harmeet Dhillon said her division is “paying very close attention.”