Cea Weaver strikes again — how the radical-left tenant advocate targets America’s promise

Cea Weaver’s diatribes against homeowners could not be more insulting to the millions of Americans who have worked and saved to fulfill that slice of our traditional national dream.

For New Yorkers who’ve bought a house or co-op to create stability and build memories, for the chance to enjoy holiday mornings in their own homes, roasting turkeys in their own ovens, the remarks of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s radical-left tenant advocate are nothing less than nightmarish.

Weaver aims to “undermine the institution of homeownership,” she said in a 2021 podcast unearthed this week by Jon Levine at the Washington Free Beacon.

“Middle-class homeowners” — white ones especially, she said, but those of every ethnicity — “are a huge problem.”

True, there are lots of renters in New York City, but even for many of them, homeownership remains a deep and meaningful aspiration.

It’s demoralizing to always have to rely on others for the roof over your head.

I was a renter for 28 years, 21 of them in New York City.

Every month I was frustrated at having to fork over my hard-earned pay to get nothing in return but temporary housing. 

I lived in a rent-stabilized apartment on the Lower East Side, an apartment above a pierogi factory in Greenpoint, and three different places in Bay Ridge. 

No matter who I paid my rent to — my landlords were Chinese, Polish and Italian — it made me feel weak and dependent to have so little stake in the place where I lived.

Owning a home is a secure investment and, emotionally, a secure base. 

It’s called the “American Dream” for good reason — but it’s not easy to come up with the money to make that dream happen.

Yet anyone, if they work hard and maintain financial self-control, can have a piece of our nation’s land for their own.

To achieve that dream for myself, I had to leave the only place that ever felt like home to me, New York City, and set off for a state where my money would matter.

Now I have two places that feel like home — the city I love so well, and the little acre of green grass on which my house sits.

Weaver is dead wrong: Homeowners aren’t a problem, they’re investors in a neighborhood and a community.

They are people with a tangible stake in their city and state.

That makes them more likely to put in the effort to keep their neighborhoods safe, clean and thriving.

As their equity builds, so does their prosperity, creating opportunities to invest in a business, in additional properties or in a child’s education.

But to Weaver and Mamdani, all those benefits are dangerous.

To them, the future of New York City is collectivist, and homeowners are independent — and a threat.

They want to make everyone a renter, reliant on government resources.

But that’s not what America is about — and it’s not what New York is about, either. 

Over 1.1 million of the city’s 3.7 million housing units are owner-occupied, according to the Citizens Housing and Planning Council.

And whether they live in a condo, a co-op, a duplex, a brownstone or a detached house, homeowners don’t want to live in the government collectives that Weaver envisions.

“It is a blessing to own a home,” Ducilla Joseph, the owner of a Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone, told The Post this week.

“In a way, this is kind of like a dream realized,” agreed Philip Solomon, another Brooklyn homeowner.

Amen to that.

Mamdani has said he wants government to meddle in every facet of New Yorkers’ lives — that there’s “no problem too big or too small” for his City Hall to interfere with.

I bet that every one of the 1.1 million homeowner households in the five boroughs would tell Mamdani they don’t need him messing with their home or property. 

When you own a home, you know you’re not temporary — you’ve built your life on a literal foundation that means you’re here to stay. 

A homeowner knows the only way to fix a problem is to fix it yourself, and that conviction brings them independence and strength.

Their confidence is power, and City Hall threatens it at its peril.

Homeowners are in it for the long haul, and mayors can be voted out.

Our dreams are bigger than government, and so are our futures.

We want to stake a claim to a piece of land that’s ours — and it’s our American right to do it.

Libby Emmons is the editor-in-chief at the Post Millennial.