Housing and Tenant Policy

Cea Weaver, appointed Jan. 1 by Mayor Mamdani to lead the revived Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, is facing renewed scrutiny after a September 2021 "Bad Faith" podcast in which she said "White, middle-class homeowners are a huge problem" for the renter-justice movement and argued homeownership should be "undermined" to provide stability in other ways. She also deleted a 2019 X post calling private property—especially homeownership—"a weapon of White supremacy," and has since told Spectrum News NY1 she regrets "some" of her past rhetoric while saying she will focus on addressing racial inequalities and ensuring safe, affordable housing; former Mayor Eric Adams publicly condemned her language.