“Without landlords how to do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority complexes],” said Humberto Lopes, founder and CEO of the Gotham Housing Alliance. “You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s–tting on us?,” he said.
"Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts.
"Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.
“ 'Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.
“ 'Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then.
"Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.
"She also unloaded on law enforcement in a May 2020 rant that came during the furor over the death of George Floyd.
“ 'The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity,” she posted.
"Weaver, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, also served as an adviser to the Mamdani campaign in 2025.
"The Post featured her as part of a group of young lefty progressives in Mamdani’s brain trust.
"She was a key player in lobbying the Democrat-run state Legislature to tighten the city’s rent stabilization laws in 2019, making them more pro-tenant." . . . More...
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