New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has resumed the practice of clearing out homeless encampments, saying he has retooled the ...
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.
The Mamdani administration restarted sweeps of homeless encampments on Wednesday — a policy the mayor once vowed to end and that homeless advocates have criticized as cruel and ineffective. A City ...
Mamdani said his administration will handle public encampments differently from Mayor Eric Adams, with extra emphasis on engaging street homeless individuals to direct them to services and housing.
In late December, then Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani pledged that his incoming administration would avoid doing homeless encampment sweeps. Just two months later, the mayor has reversed course. Mamdani’s ...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) said sweeps of improvised homeless encampments in the city will restart, according to The Associated Press. Mamdani paused former Mayor Eric Adams’s previous ...