{"id":62434,"date":"2025-12-06T02:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62434\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T02:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:05:14","slug":"mamdanis-lunatic-plan-to-end-homeless-camp-sweeps-will-destroy-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62434\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s lunatic plan to end homeless camp sweeps will destroy the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make no mistake: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s vow to not shut down homeless encampments<\/a> threatens to turn the city into an unsafe dump.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an amateur\u2019s promise, driven by abstract ideas completely at odds with the grim realities of the streets.<\/p>\n

Mamdani on Thursday offhandedly rejected the city\u2019s longstanding policy<\/a> of clearing makeshift settlements out of public areas, preening, \u201cIf you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need, then you cannot deem anything you\u2019re doing to be a success.\u201d<\/p>\n

If he doesn\u2019t wake up, homeless camps will grow and fester all across the city, not just in underpasses but in parks and other open spaces in every neighborhood. <\/p>\n

The left imagines that if the city offered housing to every person on the street, homelessness would disappear.<\/p>\n

The reality is that most street homeless spurn the shelters: They\u2019re drug-addicted, mentally ill or both \u2014 and actively reject reintegration into society.<\/p>\n

Progressives slam Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 encampment-clearing approach, which City Hall says has connected 500 people with \u201csafe, stable housing,\u201d because the vast majority of the cleared-out homeless <\/a>remain on the streets.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s because many homeless refuse to enter the shelter system, and the city can\u2019t force them in. <\/p>\n

Clearing the encampments keeps them from growing into the permanent shanty towns <\/a>that plague cities like Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

It also gives the homeless an incentive to take the city up on offers for shelter and services.<\/p>\n

The alternative is to leave them to rot in shoddily built structures made from tents, tarps and garbage: Surely Mamdani doesn\u2019t see that as a more compassionate course?<\/p>\n

It also inflicts intolerable costs on surrounding areas: Open drug use and human misery flourish in and around the camps; crime of all kinds inevitably springs up around them as decent people steer clear.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no better way to blight a neighborhood.<\/p>\n

New Yorkers have been loud and clear that they don\u2019t want dangerous homeless villages near their homes, schools and churches; this year alone has seen 45,000 camp-related 311 complaints \u2014 and that\u2019s with the city trying to clear encampments as fast as they form.<\/p>\n

If the mayor-elect doesn\u2019t backtrack on this lunatic pledge, he\u2019s guaranteeing soaring public disorder and filth: Skid Rows in neighborhoods and parks across all five boroughs. <\/p>\n

Whatever the past failures of enforcement, no mayor has ever declared such camps to be kosher. <\/p>\n

Put ordinary New Yorkers first, sir: Don\u2019t let street homeless take over whole swathes of the city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Make no mistake: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s vow to not shut down homeless encampments threatens to turn the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[304,81,9468,2000,9,24,63,299,134,136,135,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-62434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-editorial","9":"tag-eric-adams","10":"tag-homeless-shelters","11":"tag-homelessness","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-staten-island","17":"tag-staten-island-headlines","18":"tag-staten-island-news","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}