Mamdani Official Social Media Posts Raise Eyebrows
New York City’s escalating housing crisis just collided head-on with an ideological freight train, and its name is Cea Weaver. The newly appointed director of the city’s Office to Protect Tenants — handpicked by socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani — isn’t merely a tenant advocate. She’s a firebrand ideologue who once called homeownership a "weapon of white supremacy" and demanded the government “seize private property.”
That’s not hyperbole. That’s a direct quote from Weaver’s now-deleted social media posts, unearthed by internet sleuths and confirming what critics have warned for years: the city's far-left political class is no longer just flirting with radicalism — it's implementing it.
In one tweet dated June 13, 2018, Weaver wrote plainly: “Seize private property!” The message wasn’t satirical or buried in nuance. She meant it — and would later double down in a 2019 post declaring: “Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.” This from a woman now tasked with shaping housing policy in the nation’s largest city.
Weaver, a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, isn’t operating in isolation. Her appointment is part of a broader realignment under Mayor Mamdani, who rose to power on the back of a progressive movement that sees property ownership not as the foundation of upward mobility, but as a structural injustice to be dismantled. Her track record? She helped tighten rent stabilization laws in 2019 and has spent years in open warfare against private landlords.
It would be one thing if these ideas were confined to college campuses or academic forums. But Weaver now controls a taxpayer-funded office with real influence over inspections, regulations, and enforcement — backed by a mayor eager to freeze rents across a million apartments.
The economic implications are staggering.
Private landlords are already warning of a slow-motion collapse. Humberto Lopes of the Gotham Housing Alliance put it bluntly: “You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s--tting on us?” It’s a fair question. With Weaver’s ideology in the driver’s seat, the private sector’s role in housing — building it, maintaining it, investing in it — is being vilified, even as public alternatives like NYCHA crumble from within.
Yet the administration presses forward. Mamdani just signed an executive order launching “Rental Ripoff” hearings and appointed a new HPD commissioner to ramp up code enforcement. On paper, these initiatives sound like tenant protection. But under this leadership, they increasingly resemble a crusade against property owners — a regulatory siege wrapped in populist language.
The ideological drift is no longer theoretical. It’s policy. And if history is any guide, when government declares war on private property in the name of justice, the people it claims to protect are usually the first to suffer.