As Zohran Attacks Property Rights, Remember Cea Weaver
In August, Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a video of Cea Weaver backing tenants’ squatter rights over the property owner. All Zohran and his fleet of communists have to do is call the owner, who is a Jewish billionaire, a slumlord, and it’s the beginning of the end. Mayor Zohran wants the people in the building, who in some cases damaged it, to also run it, not the person who owns it.
DSA member Cea Weaver, who is the director of the “Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants,” has a history of wanting non-white tenants, and tweeted in 2018, “impoverish the white middle classs/Homeownership is racist/ failed public policy. She has since deleted the tweet.
In a 2025 interview, she suggested, “you could form a tenant union, organize for better living conditions, demand that your landlord fix things, take them to court and sue them. Then the landlord could say, ‘I’m fed up with this building that is full of organized renters,’ sell the housing to the SHDA, and you could become a tenant of the public-sector housing authority.”
In other words, she wants to force sales to public housing, which has been a miserable failure. She wants everyone in public housing. She doesn’t believe in private property ownership, only collective ownership.
Communists have no respect for owners and property rights. They only believe in collective ownership, and not by whites or Jews.
People complain about issues they sometimes or often caused. Despite causing some or most of the problems, the owners were fined millions of dollars. She and the Union of Pinnacle Tenants believe the owners’ rights belong to tenants.
You can watch the video here.
According to a 2026 analysis by City Journal, the building had far fewer violations than most buildings. He would have had fewer if a tenant hadn’t damaged the elevator. The video relied on antisemitic tropes and contained many errors, such as using the wrong photo of the owners.
The tenants group had self-described origins in Crown Heights Tenant Union’s Palestine Solidarity Working Group. The Pinnacle Tenants’ website claims “in occupied Palestine, Zionist investors are counting on the displacement of rent-stabilized tenants in Crown Heights to see a return on their investments.”
This story from the Free Beacon matters given Mayor Mamdani’s actions to dismantle private property ownership through COPA and de-commodification. This is a brief look at the article at Free Beacon, which we heartily recommend reading.
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