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• Cea Weaver, now running New York City’s Office to Protect Tenants, previously labeled homeownership a tool of “white supremacy.”

• Weaver made the remarks while her own mother benefited significantly from homeownership.

• Zohran Mamdani stood by the appointment despite backlash, calling Weaver “vetted.”

This appointment tells you almost everything you need to know about where Zohran Mamdani wants to take New York City — and who he thinks should be in charge of getting it there.

Cea Weaver didn’t just make a stray comment or an awkward joke years ago. She repeatedly attacked the very concept of private property and homeownership, calling it a weapon of “white supremacy,” even as her own family quietly benefited from the exact system she condemns. That’s not irony — it’s hypocrisy elevated to public policy.

What’s especially galling is how detached this worldview is from reality. For generations, homeownership has been one of the few reliable ways immigrants, minorities, and working-class families built stability and passed something on to their kids. That’s not a right-wing talking point — it’s lived history in New York City. Even Eric Adams, hardly a conservative, recognized how unhinged Weaver’s framing was.

And yet Mamdani didn’t just overlook these views. He embraced them. His team admits they were aware of the comments and hired Weaver anyway. That means this isn’t a vetting failure — it’s an ideological endorsement. Weaver’s stated desire to “shrink the value of real estate” isn’t an abstract theory when the person saying it now oversees tenant policy in the largest city in the country.

Calling the comments “regretful” after they go viral doesn’t undo the mindset behind them. You don’t spend years railing against private property and suddenly become neutral once you get power. You act on it — slowly, quietly, and through policy language that sounds compassionate while hollowing out incentives and value.

If this is the kind of thinking guiding New York’s housing policy, homeowners and renters alike should be concerned. When ideology treats stability itself as suspect, everyone eventually pays the price.

From Daily Caller:

Cea Weaver, a far-left activist whom Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani picked to run his administration’s Office to Protect Tenants, once said people who own private property were enabling “white supremacy” — despite her own mother being a homeowner.

The key adviser to the newly minted socialist mayor wrote in a 2019 post to X (then known as Twitter) that “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.” However, at the time Weaver, who is white, sent the post, her professor mother had already been the owner of a 3,400-square-foot home in Nashville, Tenn. for seven years, according to the New York Post (NY Post).

Weaver’s mother, Vanderbilt professor Celia Applegate, and her partner purchased the home for $814,000 in 2012 — and in under 14 years, its value had doubled to its current $1.6 million valuation, the NY Post reported Tuesday, citing property records.

The activist’s post bashing homeownership resurfaced Monday as part of a viral X thread by writer Michelle Tandler that contained over a dozen screenshots of posts from Weaver’s since-deleted account on the social media platform, made between the years 2016 and 2022.

In another one of her posts featured in Tandler’s thread, Weaver expressed her desire to “shrink the value of real estate.” When Weaver sent the post in 2021, her mother had owned her home for nine years, and it almost certainly greatly increased in value.

Furthermore, a 2017 post by Weaver appeared to favor what she called “a no more white men in office platform.”

“Impoverish the *white* middle class,” she wrote in a 2018 post. “Homeowenership is racist / failed public policy.”

Mamdani’s predecessor, former Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams, replied to Weaver’s post comparing owning a home to “white supremacy” Tuesday.

“Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle,” Adams, who is black, wrote on X in response to the white woman’s post. “You have to be completely out of your f****ing mind to call that ‘white supremacy.’”

“That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality,” the former mayor added.

Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle.

You have to be completely out of your f****ing mind to call that “white supremacy.”

That level of thinking only comes from extreme… pic.twitter.com/4q42ZAeMgm

— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) January 6, 2026

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