Ann Korchak of Small Property Owners of New York says calling property ownership racist insults immigrants
Ann KorchakBoard president of Small Property Owners of New York
Ann Korchak, board president of Small Property Owners of New York, told Fox News Digital that saying it is racist to own property is an insult to every immigrant who came to the United States.
“To say that it's racist to own property is an insult to every single immigrant who ever came here”
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Cea Weaver’s “impoverish the white middle class” and homeownership remarks
A deleted November 2018 post attributed to New York City tenant official Cea Weaver said, “Impoverish the white middle class. Homeownership is racist / failed public policy.” The wording resurfaced after Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Weaver to lead the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. Critics called the language racist, extreme, or disqualifying; defenders emphasized Weaver’s tenant-advocacy record and argued that the backlash served real-estate interests. Weaver expressed regret for some old wording without specifically retracting this sentence.
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Fox News Digital report quoting New York City small property owners on Cea Weaver's past remarks linking homeownership to white supremacy.
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Fox News Digital reported that Weaver, a Democratic Socialists of America member named by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to lead the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants, had drawn backlash over a 2019 tweet in which she wrote that private property, "ESPECIALLY homeownership," is "a weapon of White supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy." Small property owners who spoke with the outlet called her views insulting.
After the quotation
Korchak also told Fox News Digital that immigrants and their descendants know the sacrifice behind buying property, and that criticizing their wish to do so is "grossly unfair."
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The case concerns Cea Weaver's remarks tying homeownership and private property to white supremacy. Korchak said it is an insult to every immigrant who came to the United States to say that owning property is racist, and elsewhere in the article she called Weaver's language insulting. That expressly criticizes the remarks, so we labeled it Condemned.
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