Mamdani’s Rent Czar Wants to Destroy the Private Housing Market

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial pick for tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, once admitted that pushing for rent control was just the “first step” in her plan to destroy the free housing market and move toward “full social housing.”

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Videos of Weaver’s past statements have gone viral on social media since Mamdani chose the 37-year-old to lead the city’s Office to Protect Tenants.

“We decided that fighting for rent control was a strategic and critical first step in the fight for full social housing,” she said in a newly surfaced clip. “So, a lot of times people ask, ‘Why are we fighting for rent control when we have NYCHA? We should be fighting to save public housing.’ We decided that through a program like rent