US EditionMamdani reboots homeless encampment sweeps in New York City
Mayor Mamdani shifts homeless encampment sweeps from NYPD to Department of Homeless Services with daily outreach for seven days before clearing, aiming for better shelter placements.
- On Feb. 18, Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed New York City to restart homeless encampment sweeps, reversing a pause from Jan. 5 and framing the change as outreach-led.
- After a prolonged cold snap that led to at least 19 deaths, City officials declared a multiweek Code Blue and faced criticism at a City Council hearing over closed 311 calls.
- Starting with posted notices, outreach workers will notify encampments daily for seven days before sanitation dismantles sites on Day 7, with NYPD present as observers.
- Facing a mixed response, the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless condemned the move as a 'broken promise,' while business groups and some leaders praised it and the mayor expects more shelter placements.
- A 2025 analysis found more than 4,100 sweeps failed to move people into housing, while roughly 3,200 vacant supportive apartments raise questions about improved outcomes.
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Zohran Mamdani announced that New York City will resume searches and evictions from the makeshift homeless camps. However, he said his management would give a more “human” approach to a practice that criticized and even stopped in a recent past. Read more
Mamdani says New York City homeless encampment sweeps will resume
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 policy on encampment sweeps shortly after his inauguration, according to the AP, saying it had not helped with sufficiently housing people. On Wednesday, Mamdani said…
Mamdani to resume clearing NYC homeless encampments
"We will meet them looking to connect them with shelter, looking to them with services, looking to connect them with a city that wants them to be sheltered and indoors and warm and safe," New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said
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