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The mother of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenants’ rights chief — a figure who has sparked outrage for describing homeownership as “a weapon of white supremacy” — is a professor at Vanderbilt University and owns a home valued at more than $1.6 million.
Cea Weaver, the director of the Big Apple’s Office of Tenant Protection, is the daughter of Celia Applegate, a German studies professor at Vanderbilt.
Property records show that Applegate purchased a classic Craftsman home not far from Nashville’s main drag with her partner, David Blackbourn, in July 2012 for $814,000…