Zohran Mamdani: “We made 1400 placements of homeless New Yorkers into safe…”

“We wanted intensive outreach to characterize any which way in which we engage with homeless New Yorkers. What we found is that in the previous time, oftentimes it was a citation on the first day, … We made 1400 placements of homeless New Yorkers into safe havens and shelters. … the response to the arctic conditions we had in New York City was actually unrelated to encampments. Encampments, however, is a question of infrastructure.” (04:07–04:15)

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