New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city will resume clearing makeshift homeless encampments, promising to take a ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will place the Department of Homeless Services in charge of the sweeps, replacing the Police Department as leader of the interagency efforts.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans this week to reinstate homeless encampment sweeps — reversing a promise he made on the campaign trail to end the practice. The about-face comes after Mamdani ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the city will resume clearing makeshift homeless encampments with a more humane approach led by outreach workers rather than police ...

Just weeks ago, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was against the sweeps. He says now, however, they'll be unlike how ...

"We will meet them looking to connect them with shelter, looking to them with services, looking to connect them with a city ...

Mamdani’s policy change, which was first reported by the New York Post, has received praise from business groups and some elected leaders. Some city councilmembers from Manhattan had voiced their ...

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, ...

Mamdani said his administration will handle "sweeps" of public homeless encampments differently from previous Mayor Eric Adams.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayor Zohran Mamdani must immediately reverse his policy of allowing homeless encampments to proliferate on the streets of NYC.

The mayor previously pledged to end the practice of clearing unhoused encampments, calling prior mayor Adams’ strategy a failure.

The decision came as at least 19 people have died outside over several days of brutal cold in the city, prompting concerns about the city's response.