NY Tenant Organizer, Cea Weaver, COPE General Meeting, July 7, 2019
Channel: COPE Vancouver
Date: 2019-07-11

Cea Weaver is the campaign coordinator of the Upstate Downstate Housing Alliance. In 2019, the Alliance was successful in overturning a generations' worth of landlord-friendly loopholes in New York's tenant protection laws and expanding rent stabilization to cover the entire state of New York. Cea played a critical role in the success of this campaign, bringing together tenants' groups and homeless New Yorkers from across the State in a unified effort to pass tenant friendly legislation in the State Capitol. Cea has 10 years of experience in tenant organizing, housing policy, and campaign strategy and research. She has a masters degree in Urban Planning from NYU.

In this video, Cea speaks to the crowd at COPE General Meeting, on July 7, 2019 at the Russian Hall, talking about three important lessons from their victory.