The Left Shouldn’t Demonize Homeowners

Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor of New York City as a relentless champion of tenants, promising to freeze rents and attack bad landlords. For his fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America, advocating for tenants means something more radical: maligning homeownership as capitalistic and inherently inequitable. Cea Weaver, the new director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, once declared it “a weapon of white supremacy.” (She apologized, sort of. That’s not “how I would say things today,” she said after getting appointed.)