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Marxism In The Metropolis: NYC’s New ‘Tenant Czar’ Has Targeted White Homeowners, Private Property

"Families, especially white families, are gonna have a different relationship to property."

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Marxism In The Metropolis: NYC’s New ‘Tenant Czar’ Has Targeted White Homeowners, Private Property
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Based on her previous comments, New York City’s newly minted “Tenant Director” Cea Weaver will waste no time telegraphing the Mamdani administration’s radical agenda: the systematic dismantling of private property rights in favor of Soviet-style collectivism.

Weaver, a high-ranking operative within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was hand-picked by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to lead the city’s housing policy. Her appointment follows Mamdani’s chilling inaugural pledge to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” — a phrase that sounds more like a translation from a 1917 Bolshevik pamphlet than a speech by an American mayor.

In her previous comments that have sent shockwaves through the city’s middle class, Weaver explicitly framed the abolition of property rights as a racial imperative. Breaking from the traditional language of urban planning, Weaver pivoted to a divisive, race-based attack on homeowners.

“The reality is that for centuries, we have really treated property as an individualized good and not as a collective good,” Weaver stated, echoing the core tenets of Karl Marx. She went on to warn that the transition to “shared equity” would specifically target “white families” and “some POC (people of color) families who are homeowners,” forcing them into a “different relationship to property” than the one protected by the U.S. Constitution for nearly 250 years.

In a previous social media post, Weaver said, “homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”

To those familiar with the Communist Manifesto, Weaver’s previous rhetoric is a textbook example of class — and now race — warfare. By categorizing the family home as a “collective good” rather than a private asset, she has raised concerns about possible state-sanctioned seizures and the destruction of generational wealth.

By singling out white families, Weaver has used the “social justice” playbook to justify what is effectively a policy of collective punishment. Under the guise of “equity,” New Yorkers fear they could be punished for achieving the American Dream, treating homeownership not as a milestone of success but as a “privilege” to be socialized by the state.

By attacking the “individualized good,” Weaver attacked the very concept of the sovereign individual. As Margaret Thatcher famously noted, “there is no such thing as society,” only individuals and families. Weaver’s stated vision could seek to erase both, subsuming the family unit into a faceless, state-managed “community use” project.

As the New York City administration moves toward “universal rent control” and “shared equity” models, the message to New Yorkers is clear: Your home is no longer your castle — it is a municipal resource, and if you belong to the “wrong” demographic, you could be first on the list to lose it.

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