Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Cea Weaver, his pick to head the resurrected Office to Protect Tenants, are two peas in a progressive pod when it comes to housing.

Mamdani has infamously promised to jack up property taxes on “whiter neighborhoods”; Weaver has been pilloried, and justly so, for calling homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy” and seeking to “impoverish the ‘white’ middle class.” 

But Weaver’s policy confusion goes deeper — and should spark concern about Mamdani’s broader housing agenda. 

In resurfaced tweets, she railed against property ownership as “an individualized good and not a collective good.”

Private property and homeownership merely “masquerade as ‘wealth building’ public policy,” she declared.

In other words, Weaver (and perhaps Mamdani) is signaling antagonism toward the private housing sector itself.

In that light, it very much matters that the mayor is

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