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Cea Weaver

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Cea Weaver is a New York City tenant organizer and director of the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants.

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What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Cea Weaver on Housing Policy and Racism. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Cea Weaver

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Cea Weaver

Role at the time: Subject of the controversy and director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants

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Response to this claim

Weaver said some old statements were regretful and were not how she would phrase things today.

“Some of some of those things are certainly not how I would say things today, and are regretful.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)AP report on Cea Weaver’s deleted posts and responseArticle text
Why we used this label

This is a partial disavowal of wording, not a specific retraction of the central 2018 sentence or the underlying housing-policy views.

Read statementCea Weaver’s “impoverish the white middle class” and homeownership remarks

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