Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani vows to stop clearing homeless encampments

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00:00If you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need,

00:06then you cannot deem anything you're doing to be a success.

00:09We are going to take an approach that understands its mission is connecting those New Yorkers to

00:15housing, whether it's supportive housing, whether it's rental housing, whatever kind of housing it

00:19is. Because what we have seen is the treatment of homelessness as if it is a natural part of

00:24living in this city, when in fact it's more often a reflection of a political choice being made

00:28time and time again.