New York City Education Policy

Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed longtime housing activist Cea Weaver to lead the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants despite resurfaced social‑media posts in which she described homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” and advocated treating property as a collective good, drawing criticism from federal officials and editorial boards. Mamdani defended Weaver as a principled tenant advocate and said the administration knew of the posts, while Assemblyman Kalman Yeger and other City Council members say the council signaled in 2021 it would not have confirmed her earlier nomination to the City Planning Commission, which was withdrawn.