Cea Weaver’s diatribes against homeowners could not be more insulting to the millions of Americans who have worked and saved to fulfill that slice of our traditional national dream.

For New Yorkers who’ve bought a house or co-op to create stability and build memories, for the chance to enjoy holiday mornings in their own homes, roasting turkeys in their own ovens, the remarks of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s radical-left tenant advocate are nothing less than nightmarish.

Weaver aims to “undermine the institution of homeownership,” she said in a 2021 podcast unearthed this week by Jon Levine at the Washington Free Beacon.

“Middle-class homeowners” — white ones especially, she said, but those of every ethnicity — “are a huge problem.”

True, there are lots of renters in New York City, but even for many of them, homeownership remains a deep and meaningful aspiration.

It’s demoralizing to always have to rely on others for the roof over........

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