How Cea Weaver’s racism and tinker-toy Marxism – Latest News
Last week’s Post exposé on black owners’ anger at Cea Weaver’s claims that proudly owning your own home is a “weapon of white supremacy” is simply a style of why City Hall’s plan to only wait out the furor must be a no-go.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani plainly thinks it’s enough that his tenant-protection chief has admitted, “Some of some of those things are certainly not how I would, how I would say things today, and are regretful” — not least as a result of he agrees that her “decades of experience fighting for more affordable housing sort of stands on its own.”
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, together with Housing Czar Cea Weaver, and others held a press convention in Jackson Heights, NY on January 16, 2026, to announce a settlement with A&E Management ensuing from building violations. James Messerschmidt
Part of the issue is that she doesn’t even surrender the racist, far-left views she’s expressed for years, as a well-known activist in state politics in her 30s, not a school child.
The far greater drawback is that her hate is central to how she’s been “fighting for more affordable housing,” and to the tinker-toy ideology that drives her imaginative and prescient.
Her agitation as a main official at Housing Justice for All is extensively credited for the passage of the 2019 state law that slashed the rent hikes legally permit for rent-stabilized items when the owner must renovate the house after a decades-long tenant leaves, additionally for the more current “Good Cause Eviction” law that successfully limits rent will increase on non-regulated residences.
First, notice that the teams she ran till now — Housing Justice for All and the NYS Tenants Bloc — nonetheless post inflammatory messaging about “billionaire slumlords” who prey on “black, brown and immigrant communities”: Race-baiting is central to the trigger.
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And the trigger, as Weaver has brazenly acknowledged, is to (first) make property house owners “choose not to invest in their properties” — “choose” as a result of her insurance policies (just like the 2019 law) have made it inconceivable for them to cowl their prices.
Why ship buildings spiraling into decay? Because it can allow the town to grab them and flip over their management to favored nonprofit “community development” organizations.
Hence City Hall’s battle (now backed by state Attorney General Tish James) to stop real-estate firm Pinnacle’s sale of blocs of items to a different personal proprietor — brazenly arguing that no personal landlord can keep these buildings afloat as a result of state law retains the rents too low.
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Where does this lead? Consider 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in The Bronx, which Mamdani touted the opposite week as a sterling model of simply that sort of “social housing” project he needs: The Post revealed the building is in a wretched state of disrepair, with a whole bunch of excellent severe violations.
It has more than double the damaging “Class C” violations racked up at 85 Clarkson Ave. — a dilapidated 71-unit complicated in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, that Mamdani showcased three days earlier as an instance of the whole lot fallacious with the town’s privately-owned housing stock.
And the Sedgwick horror is a proud achievement of Dina Levy, the mayor’s chosen Housing Preservation and Development chief, who as a tenants-rights activist finagled HPD funding for a nonprofit to take over the building in 2011.
Now that she’s working HPD, she will create more nonprofit slums. Yay?
It’s not simply Cea Weaver, in different phrases, terrible as she is: The entire Mamdani workforce imagines that personal possession (a idea designed by and for white cisgender males, of course) is in some way the trigger of all the town’s housing woes, and the answer is ever-heavier authorities diktats and the regular “socialization” of property.
It’s a unhappy subdivision of magical pondering — call it magical Marxism.
