The nonprofit founded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s radical tenant advocate Cea Weaver is pushing a Marxist scheme that will use more than $2 billion in taxpayer dough to “take housing off landlords’ hands.”
The New York State Tenant Bloc, which Weaver helmed until joining Mamdani’s administration in January, said it wants to deploy the newly approved taxpayer funds to allow tenant-backed groups to take over rent-stabilized units, but was coy about the details.
“If landlords can’t maintain their buildings, tenants will,” the group declared Monday on X. “The Mayor’s Housing Plan directs $2.2 billion to taking housing off their hands. Tenants are organizing to defend our communities and reclaim our homes.”
The social media post was part of a thread from the group gloating about Mamdani’s rent freeze, that ended with a sign-up link for tenants to “get organized…to make the rent freeze meaningful.”…