In 2021, Mamdani Tenant Dir.: White, Middle-Class Homeowners Are a Huge Problem for a Renter Justice Movement’

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WEAVER: "I think that United States public policy has done a really, really, really good job of pitting cash-poor homeowners and working class homeowners and middle-class homeowners against renters, and we need to figure out how to navigate that as organizers. It’s really — it’s really quite difficult, right, because, like, yes, Blackstone is a bigger and worse target than, like, you know, Mrs. Smith, who owns 15 buildings, but Mrs. Smith who owns 15 buildings still, like, kind of sucks and has a lot more stability than renters, and there’s more of them than there are the Blackstones. So it's just like this challenging dynamic that white middle-class homeowners are a huge problem for renter justice movement."