New York City’s new renters tsar wasted no time in outraging locals for vowing to make life harder for whites in the Big Apple over their role in ‘racist gentrification.’
But Cea Weaver has kept strangely quiet about her own mother – a white professor who owns a gorgeous $1.4 million home in America’s fastest gentrifying city, where longtime black residents are quickly being priced out.
The hardline leftist’s mother Celia Applegate, a professor German Studies at prestigious Vanderbilt University, resides at a pretty, roomy 1930s Craftsman home in one of Nashville’s leafiest neighborhoods.
Mayor Zohran Kuame Mamdani @MayorNYC, we regret to inform you that, as per Cea Weaver, your newly appointed Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants @NYCMOPT, your multi-millionaire mother, @MiraPagliNair, must relinquish ownership of your family’s luxury gated compound.… pic.twitter.com/ZeAeGvvb29
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) January 5, 2026
