""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.And that is something that I believe will yield far better results, because it hasn't even been the driving directive of these policies before," Mamdani said during an unrelated news conference."
""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," he said."
Zohran Mamdani paused the prior encampment-clearance policy in January and will resume clearing homeless encampments under a revised approach. The Department of Homeless Services will lead operations instead of the police, emphasizing sustained outreach. The city will post a notice, then send outreach workers to visit encampments daily for a week to offer shelter and social services. On the seventh day, sanitation crews will dismantle the encampment with the expectation that individuals have vacated. The strategy aims to overcome initial skepticism and improve connections to shelter and services, after the previous policy was judged a failure.
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