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More tweets surface from Mamdani’s new director and man does she hate Whitey

January 6, 2026 | | Print Article

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing director is coming under fire for telling tweets from a now-deleted account.

It all started when a clip of Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s Tenant Director, went viral in which she questions allowing property to be an “individual good” rather than a “collective good.” She insisted that the shift toward “collective” property will mean having a “different relationship to property than the one we currently have.” Essentially, you will own nothing and it doesn’t actually matter if you’re happy about it.

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Weaver’s X account was deleted recently, but luckily New York podcaster had the foresight to capture some of the more telling tweets.

“A few months ago, I dug into Cea Weaver’s Twitter history because she was Mamdani’s housing advisor. I had a hunch she might get a position on his team. Well, she did, and she deleted her X account, accordingly. However, I took some screenshots. Let’s dig in,” Tandler wrote.

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Attached was a screenshotted post from July 2018 in which Weaver wrote: “There is no such thing as a ‘good’ gentrifier, only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t.”

Before moving forward, it is important to reiterate that Weaver is working in the housing office for Mamdani, where she will ostensibly be working to “defend tenants’ rights, stand up to landlords, and ensure city agencies act swiftly on behalf of renters facing unsafe or illegal conditions.” Which means she will have some of the power needed to put into motion her personal beliefs on property rights and ownership.

“Instead of blaming folks for not having access to a mortgage in a rich neighborhood (and all that comes with that) we could tax the rich, invest in the public good, stop all evictions, and fund safe, stable, public housing for everyone. Happy mother’s day,” she wrote in one post from May 2022.

“Rent control and public housing for everyone you guys,” she wrote in another post from November 2017. “Massive government interventions to solve gentrification.”

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In November 2021, she shilled for rent control, which she called “a perfect solution to everything.”

She repeated this line of thinking in a December 2021 post in which she said “I think ‘pass really strong rent control’ is a more effective way to shrink the value of real estate than reducing rezoning applications (which have a mixed results vis a vis property values.)”

Her views on white people are as genuinely disturbing as her opinions on property rights.

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“This country built wealth for white people through genocide, slavery, stolent land & labor,” she wrote in August 2017. “White supremacy built the north and the south…”

Then she tied the two issues together, suggesting her issue stems from a loathing of whiteness and anything she believes is tied to that.

“Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy,” she wrote in August 2019.

“Gentrification narratives are pretty tired and not helpful anymore. Gentrification is caused by rent-seeking developers/landlords and policy makers that enable them. It’s part of a centuries long process of white supremacy in the housing/land market,” she said in July 2018.

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“The ‘rules’ are designed for white people. The Manhattan Institute legitimizes white supremacy. End broken windows,” she wrote in February 2017.

Tandler shared additional posts from Weaver that range from disturbing to completely unhinged.

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