POLITICS: How Cea Weaver’s racism and tinker-toy Marxism infects ALL Mamdani’s housing plans

Last week’s Post exposé on black homeowners’ anger at Cea Weaver’s claims that owning your own house is a “weapon of white supremacy” is only a taste of why City Hall’s plan to just wait out the furor should be a no-go.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani plainly thinks it’s enough that his tenant-protection chief has admitted, “Some of some of those things are certainly not how I would, how I would say things today, and are regretful” — not least because he agrees that her “decades of experience fighting for more affordable housing sort of stands on its own.”

Part of the problem is that she doesn’t even renounce the racist, far-left views she’s expressed for years, as a well-known activist in state politics in her 30s, not a college kid.

The far bigger problem is that her hate is central to how she’s been “fighting for more affordable housing,” and to the tinker-toy ideology that drives her vision.

Her agitation as a leading official at Housing Justice for All is widely credited for the passage of the 2019 state law that slashed the rent hikes legally allow for rent-stabilized units when the landlord needs to renovate the apartment after a decades-long tenant leaves, also for the more recent “Good Cause Eviction” law that effectively limits rent increases on non-regulated apartments.

First, note that the groups she ran until now — Housing Justice for All and the NYS Tenants Bloc — still post inflammatory messaging about “billionaire slumlords” who prey on “black, brown and immigrant communities”: Race-baiting is central to the cause.

And the cause, as Weaver has openly stated, is to (first) make property owners “choose not to invest in their properties” — “choose” because her policies (like the 2019 law) have made it impossible for them to cover their costs.

Why send buildings spiraling into decay? Because it will enable the city to seize them and turn over their management to favored nonprofit “community development” organizations.

Hence City Hall’s battle (now backed by state Attorney General Tish James) to prevent real-estate firm Pinnacle’s sale of blocs of units to another private owner — openly arguing that no private landlord can keep these buildings afloat because state law keeps the rents too low.

Where does this lead? Consider 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in The Bronx, which Mamdani touted the other week as a sterling model of just that kind of “social housing” project he wants: The Post revealed the building is in a wretched state of disrepair, with hundreds of outstanding serious violations.

It has more than double the dangerous “Class C” violations racked up at 85 Clarkson Ave. — a dilapidated 71-unit complex in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, that Mamdani showcased three days earlier as an example of everything wrong with the city’s privately-owned housing stock.

And the Sedgwick horror is a proud achievement of Dina Levy, the mayor’s chosen Housing Preservation and Development chief, who as a tenants-rights activist finagled HPD funding for a nonprofit to take over the building in 2011.

Now that she’s running HPD, she can create more nonprofit slums. Yay?

It’s not just Cea Weaver, in other words, awful as she is: The whole Mamdani team imagines that private ownership (a concept designed by and for white cisgender males, of course) is somehow the cause of all the city’s housing woes, and the solution is ever-heavier government diktats and the steady “socialization” of property.

It’s a sad subdivision of magical thinking — call it magical Marxism.