Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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On his first day in office, Mamdani appointed Cea Weaver, a tenant activist and one of his campaign advisers, to lead the city's Office to Protect Tenants.

Reason spoke with Weaver in 2021 for our story on the victims of the eviction moratorium. She told us about her vision of "a world in which the housing is owned by a collective" and said "the federal government prints money" so they "can provide money for this." #NewYork #NYC #housing #socialism