"Where I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we saw this cycle where landlords and bankers and policymakers had driven up the value of real estate using speculative financial capital, the housing market crashed, and then the solution to that was just a different private equity firm coming in and owning the buildings," Weaver, 37, said in a Dissent magazine interview published last winter. "This cycle fueled waves of gentrification in Crown Heights."
"Weaver, a Rochester transplant, made zero acknowledgment of her own potential contributions to gentrifying the area where she rents. The housing advocate attended Bryn Mawr College - a private college in Pennsylvania where tuition costs as much as $88,000 per year. It wasn't immediately clear if Weaver - who also went to NYU - attended the private school on a scholarship or paid her own way."
Cea Weaver criticized gentrification in Crown Heights, describing a cycle where landlords, bankers, and policymakers drove up real estate values with speculative financial capital, the housing market crashed, and private equity firms then purchased and owned buildings. The cycle fueled waves of gentrification in Crown Heights. Weaver was appointed director of the city Office to Protect Tenants. Weaver attended Bryn Mawr College and NYU, with Bryn Mawr tuition reaching about $88,000 per year. Weaver's mother owns a Nashville home valued at $1.6 million and is a Vanderbilt University professor. Old social media posts show Weaver once called homeownership a "weapon of white supremacy."
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