‘Whites Especially’: Mamdani Official’s Shocking Comments About Seizing Private Property From White People Re-Emerge

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly tapped tenant czar once urged followers to “seize private property” and branded homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy,” according to a trail of now-deleted social media posts that resurfaced days after her appointment.

Cea Weaver, named director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, made the remarks years before joining City Hall, but the posts are now drawing scrutiny as Mamdani pushes an aggressive, tenant-first housing agenda.

“Seize private property!” Weaver wrote in a June 13, 2018 post.

She expanded on that view the following year, posting a longer screed in August 2019 that took aim squarely at homeownership.

“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she wrote.

Weaver also urged followers to “Elect more communists” in a December 2017 post tied to the renaming of a Harlem street corner honoring former Rep. Vito Marcantonio, a noted Communist.

During the unrest following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Weaver blasted law enforcement in another post.

“The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder With Immunity,” she wrote.

Weaver is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and previously worked as a campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All. She also served as an adviser to Mamdani’s mayoral campaign and was part of the young progressive circle that helped shape his housing platform.

NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea Weaver:

“We’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good. Whites especially will be impacted.” pic.twitter.com/RZSdCs8oEa

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She played a key role in lobbying the Democrat-controlled state Legislature to overhaul New York’s rent stabilization laws in 2019, tightening restrictions on landlords and expanding tenant protections.

Her appointment comes as Mamdani moves quickly to remake city housing policy. He has called for freezing rents on roughly 1 million rent-regulated apartments, a proposal that would require approval from the Rent Guidelines Board.

Some property owners say the rhetoric coming from City Hall reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how housing gets built and maintained.

“Without landlords how do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA,” 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?” Lopes added.

Mamdani’s office and Weaver did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Even as questions swirl around Weaver’s past statements, Mamdani has continued staffing up his housing team. On Sunday, he appointed Dina Levy, a longtime state housing official, as commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development.

Levy previously served as senior vice president of single-family and community development at the state Division of Homes and Community Renewal.

“Levy is an experienced and fearless housing leader, and I know that she will fight to protect tenants and tackle our housing crisis head-on,” Mamdani said while announcing the pick.

Levy said she began her career as a tenant advocate and acknowledged the scale of the challenge ahead.

“I do know the work ahead will be hard,” she said.

HPD is responsible for enforcing the city’s housing maintenance code, including inspecting apartments, bringing cases against landlords in housing court and ordering emergency repairs.

Zohran Mamdani has also signed an executive order launching “Rental Ripoff” hearings across all five boroughs within his first 100 days in office. The order directs HPD, the Department of Buildings, the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to coordinate the hearings with the newly created Office of Mass Engagement.

“Too many New Yorkers have been forced to pay more for less — living in unsafe, unconscionable, and unaffordable housing,” Mamdani said. “Under my administration, that ends. Today’s executive order is the first step towards giving New Yorkers a voice in addressing the housing crisis that is pricing them out of our city.”

As Mamdani accelerates his tenant-focused agenda, Weaver’s resurfaced posts are likely to fuel debate over whether City Hall’s housing strategy is about reform or something far more radical.

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