NYC's Homelessness Shift: Ending Encampment Sweeps
Update: 2025-12-06
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New York Citys approach to homelessness is shifting as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to end the policy of clearing homeless encampments, a move criticized by outgoing Mayor Eric Adams. The current policy, which has visited over eighteen thousand six hundred locations, is seen as ineffective by critics like City Comptroller Brad Lander, who argue that it merely moves people from one place to another. Mamdani intends to focus on connecting individuals with housing solutions instead. The low acceptance rate of shelter, with only one hundred fifteen instances recorded out of thousands of encampment visits, highlights the challenge of making the existing shelter system appealing to homeless individuals.
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