Fox News correspondent Madeline Rivera reports on backlash over New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tenant office appointee Cea Weaver after past comments about private property drew criticism.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire, including from the White House, for his choice of a property-rights skeptic and "housing justice" advocate to head the city’s Office to Protect Tenants. Cara Weaver is on record calling homeownership a form of "White supremacy" and advocating that government "seize private property."

We can hope that such policies will not be implemented, even in New York, and the Trump Department of Justice has signaled an interest in ensuring they won’t be. But that doesn’t mean the city lacks myriad housing policy problems — largely based on laws that already overprotect tenant rights at the expense of law-abiding landlords, those not targeted by Mamdani on his new "rental ripoff" tour of allegedly negligent owners. 

The city’s existing landlord-tenant laws are, in fact, so stacked against those foolish enough to own rental property — or stuck with it — that what Gotham really needs is an Office of Landlord Protection.

"New York has the most tenant protections of any state," says Ann Korchak of the Small Property Owners of New York. One could reasonably say its laws are the most extreme in the country.

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