In a report released this March, the Office of the New York State Comptroller found that the city’s unsheltered population rose from 3,588 in FY2019 to 4,504 in FY2025. Over the same stretch, spending ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.

New York has failed to solve its homeless crisis for a half century. Well intentioned promises were made for community mental health programs and affordable housing, but they were never adequately ...

The Mamdani administration is still looking for New Yorkers to help count the number of people sleeping on the street as the annual census of unsheltered homeless people approaches. The yearly tally, ...

Sanitation workers this week found themselves sprucing up a shantytown below a Queens overpass after community leaders and residents flooded the city with complaints that hobos living there took ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani conceded Wednesday that the Big Apple does need homeless encampment sweeps — but vowed that his administration will have “better outcomes” than his predecessor. Hizzoner, facing ...

The Mamdani administration restarted sweeps of homeless encampments on Wednesday — a policy the mayor once vowed to end and that homeless advocates have criticized as cruel and ineffective. A City ...

Just weeks ago, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was against the sweeps. He says now, however, they'll be unlike how ...

The homeless have a new perk thanks to Mayor Zohran Mamdani: turndown service. City sanitation workers did everything this week but put mints on the greasy pillows atop makeshift beds in a booming ...