Letting homeless camps fester is toxic to city neighborhoods and unsafe for the “campers,” so let’s all cheer Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to back off his ban on “encampment sweeps.”
And more power to him if he can indeed have hissweeps result in “better outcomes” than the last mayor’s.
We’re skeptical of that: Mamdani certainly hasn’t rethought the larger assumptions of New York City’s homeless-industrial complex; he tapped a core architect of that system, Steven Banks, to run the city’s Law Department…