Mamdani continues to ignore media requests to clarify whether or not his office is opposed to home ownership. Mamdani said in the past his goal is to “move away from a situation where most people access housing by purchasing it” toward one in which the “state guarantees high-quality housing for all.”
That’s fine. The more serious issue is the continued employment of someone with abjectly racist ideas. Weaver has a spectacular, tinfoil-level fixation on white people. Among her deleted posts is a long list of racialist lunacies, from a call to “impoverish the white middle class” to claiming “homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.”