Cea Weaver

I want to make sure that everybody has a safe and affordable place to live, whether they rent or own, and that is something I am laser-focused on in this role.

Cea Weaver (born Celia Weaver, 1988 or 1989) is an American tenant organizer who serves as the director of the New York City Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants since 2026. She previously coordinated the statewide organization Housing Justice for All and was a central figure in the campaign that led to the passage of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019. A member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Weaver has advocated for rent strikes and regulations that prioritize housing for community use rather than profit. She was appointed to her current municipal role by mayor Zohran Mamdani on January 1, 2026.

Quotes

• I think that some of those things are certainly not how I would say things today and are regretful. But I do think my decades of experience fighting for more affordable housing stands on its own. [...] I’m proud to be in this role fighting for stronger tenants rights, and I think that, for many years, people have been locked out of the property market. That has produced a lot of systematic and racial inequalities in our system. And I want to make sure that everybody has a safe and affordable place to live, whether they rent or own, and that is something I am laser-focused on in this role.
  • Response to social media controversy, from an interview on Inside City Hall with Errol Louis (January 6, 2026), quoted in Nia Prater, "Mamdani Backs Housing Appointee As Past Social-Media Posts Resurface", Intelligencer (January 7, 2026)

Social media

• Elect more communists.
  • Twitter / X (December 18, 2017) on learning that a Harlem street corner was to be renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio [1]

• Seize private property!
  • Twitter / X (June 13, 2018)

• 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.
  • Twitter / X (July 8, 2018)

• Impoverish the *white* middle class. Homeownership is racist / failed public policy.
  • Twitter / X (November 19, 2018)

• Really needing to repress the desire for revenge rn. I wish I believed in god so I could believe that all men who take credit for women's work and all white men who take credit for the work of women of color would one day burn.
  • Twitter / X (January 4, 2019)

• Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as “wealth building” public policy.
  • Twitter / X (August 21, 2019) [2]

External links

• Carl Campanile, "Zohran Mamdani's new NYC tenant advocate called to 'seize private property,' blasted homeownership as 'white supremacy'", The New York Post (January 4, 2026) — secondary source for social media posts quoted above