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The Mamdani administration will have the Department of Homeless Services lead the sweep efforts, instead of the police department, the mayor announced Wednesday.
Mamdani said his administration will handle "sweeps" of public homeless encampments differently from previous Mayor Eric Adams.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced that the city will recommence clearing makeshift homeless encampments, promising a more compassionate approach to a practice he previously criticized. Mamdani put a halt to the previous mayor's policy of ...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is bringing back homeless encampment sweeps — reversing course on another campaign promise following backlash for not getting people off the streets during the deadly cold snap, The Post has learned.
The mayor previously pledged to end the practice of clearing unhoused encampments, calling prior mayor Adams’ strategy a failure.