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Mamdani Directs Agency to Restart Homeless Encampments SweepsMayor Zohran Mamdani reversed course on Wednesday and said that New York City will restart the process of sweeping homeless encampments. Mr. Mamdani said that his administration will connect the homeless will shelter and services.
In December, I was asked about my thoughts on the prior administration’s policy, and I said that I thought that policy was a failure. On Jan. 5, soon after coming into office, I made a decision with my team to put a pause on that prior administration’s policy as we started to develop our own policy that would generate far better outcomes for the city. And so the policy that we have developed has a number of important distinctions. Unlike in the past administration, where much of the interaction with a homeless New Yorker was defined by the first day when you’d provide a notice and the seventh day when you’d initiate a sweep. In our administration, every single day of that time period will be characterized by outreach. Our administration will meet those homeless New Yorkers every single day, and we will meet them looking to connect them with shelter, looking to connect them with services, looking to connect them with a city that wants them to be sheltered and indoors and warm and safe.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani reversed course on Wednesday and said that New York City will restart the process of sweeping homeless encampments. Mr. Mamdani said that his administration will connect the homeless will shelter and services.
By Cynthia Silva
February 18, 2026