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Hochul and Adams Rebuke Mamdani’s Plan to Curb NYPD Encampment Sweeps

Mamdani says sweeps will stop unless they lead to housing placements, reflecting calls from providers and activists to pivot to housing-first solutions.

New York City Parks Department Officers and workers, along with NYPD Officers and New York City Homeless Outreach dismantled a long existing homeless encampment situated among the trees and shrubbery in an area bounded by Cadman Plaza West, Middagh Street, Prospect Street and the Brooklyn Bridge Exit Ramp in Brooklyn on Monday October 10, 2022. 1119. (Theodore Parisienne)
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to the press after attending a hot chocolate distribution event in New York on December 4, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Governor Kathy Hochul’s office said enforcement, including sweeps when needed, should be paired with connections to supportive housing and mental health and substance use services.
  • Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams criticized halting clearances, calling street encampments inhumane and warning of negative consequences in a televised interview.
  • Mamdani maintains that operations lacking real housing placements should not proceed, framing outcomes around stable housing rather than removals alone.
  • Reporting cited city data showing more than $6.4 million spent on thousands of sweeps from January 2024 to June 2025 with no documented housing placements, and a prior audit found most people returned to the streets.
  • Advocates urge deploying vacant supportive housing units, improving shelter quality and outreach coordination, speeding permanent placements, and addressing provider funding, as a federal lawsuit seeks stronger protections during clearances and final policy decisions await the January transition.