(AP)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top housing official once declared plans to make property “worth less” through the use of rent control.
The remark, resurfaced in a clip highlighted by The Washington Free Beacon’s Jon Levine on X, comes from a 2021 podcast appearance by Cea Weaver, the newly installed executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, and is raising fresh alarms about the leftist direction of Mamdani’s housing agenda.
“In a 2021 podcast appearance Cea Weaver said her goal was to make New York City housing ‘worth less’ through the use of rent control,” Levine wrote, posting video of Weaver laying out her strategy…