"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."
"Under the new approach, the city will first post a notice that a homeless encampment will be cleared and then send homeless department outreach workers there daily for a week to guide people into social services. On the seventh day, sanitation workers will dismantle the encampment, with the expectation that individuals have vacated the area. Mamdani said that relentless outreach would help connect with homeless New Yorkers whose "first reaction might be that of skepticism.""
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that New York City will resume clearing homeless encampments with a Department of Homeless Services–led initiative emphasizing sustained outreach. Mamdani paused the prior administration's policy in January after finding it failed to secure housing. The new approach posts a notice, deploys DHS outreach workers daily for a week to guide people into shelter and services, and permits sanitation crews to dismantle encampments on the seventh day if areas are vacated. The effort aims to replace police-led removals, overcome skepticism, and produce better outcomes by prioritizing connection to shelter and social services.
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