Within a week of taking office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing pressure to evict tenants’ rights csar Cea Weaver, whom he appointed shortly after his Jan. 1 inauguration.
Weaver leads the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. She’s former executive director of Housing Justice for All. Her efforts influenced state lawmakers to pass the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, which prevents landlords from deregulating rent-stabilized apartments.
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Weaver has irked powerful people, many of them allies of President Donald Trump.
Shortly after her appointment, a number of controversial pre-2020 social media posts surfaced in which Weaver described home ownership as “a weapon of white supremacy” while also calling to “impoverish the white middle class.” (1)…