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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed property chief called to “seize private property” and said home ownership is “white supremacy” on a now-deleted social-media account.
According to The New York Post, “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 wrote on 13 June 2018.
A year later, she wrote, “Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.”
Weaver also called to “Elect more communists” and ranted about the death of George Floyd.
“The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity,” she wrote.
Weaver, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, served as an adviser to the Mamdani campaign before taking on an official role in the new mayoral administration.
Mamdani wants to freeze the rent on one million rent-regulated apartments.
Mamdani also signed an executive order creating “Rental Ripoff” hearings across the five boroughs within the first 100 days of his time as mayor.
“Too many New Yorkers have been forced to pay more for less—living in unsafe, unconscionable, and unaffordable housing,” the mayor 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.”
