Cea Weaver strikes again how the radical-left tenant advocate targets Americas 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...