Mamdani Announces What One of His First Initiatives As Mayor Will Be - It's a Preview of Things to Come

It is always amazing that, in a place where liberal Democrats have reigned supreme for decades, and say they want a change, their answer always seems to be, "If we just elect some new Democrats..." Since he came on the scene during the summer, the entire nation has been able to see what's coming once Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani gets sworn into office. He is an unapologetic socialist and will implement ridiculous and useless socialist ideas in the Big Apple. When it comes to the city's homeless population, even Democrat Mayor Eric Adams knew there had to be some restrictions. But not for long.

Mamdani is catering to his base. The homeless whose mail in votes were cast for them. And the uber wealthy white women who wanted to virtue signal about how much they cared for homeless people.

Meanwhile the people actually living in the camps are miserable and dying.
— GiveMeLiberty (@ru23052) December 5, 2025

On Thursday, Mamdani announced that once he is sworn in as mayor, one of the first things he will roll back is the clearing of homeless encampments throughout the city. Mamdani said this of outgoing Mayor Adams' policy:

“If you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need, then you cannot deem anything you’re doing to be a success. We are going to take an approach that understands its mission is connecting those New Yorkers to housing. Whether it’s supportive housing, whether it’s rental housing, whatever kind of housing it is, because what we have seen is the treatment of homelessness as if it is a natural part of living in this city, when in fact, it’s more often a reflection of a political choice being made.”

Mamdani may be talking a good game, but as yet, he has not stated what his plan for dealing with the encampments is. From January to November of this year, there have been more than 45,000 complaints of homeless encampments. Upon being sworn in as mayor in 2022, Adams made clearing out the tent cities a priority. At the time, Adams said:

“We cannot tolerate these makeshift, unsafe houses on the side of highways, in trees, in front of schools, in parks. This is just not acceptable, and it’s something I’m just not going to allow to happen."

Let this sink in

Mamdani to STOP ALL Homeless encampment sweeps across NYC.

I can only hope the homeless will encamp in the fanciest of neighborhoods..
— Concetta🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@concetta8631) December 5, 2025

But Adams only solved half the problem. Very few of those who were told to move on in those encampment sweeps made it into some sort of permanent housing. In 2023, an audit showed that, out of roughly 2,000 people who were swept up in Adams' encampment sweeps, just three found permanent housing, and 95 percent of those did not get into a shelter. City Comptroller called Adams' sweeps “indisputably successful," and a City Hall spokesman said that the numbers were being "cherry-picked."

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Eric Adams' approach was certainly not ideal, but what do New Yorkers have to look forward to with Mamdani's approach to homelessness? Most likely, their city looking a lot like San Francisco or Los Angeles, where large homeless encampments cause problems such as trash, open drug use, needles, human waste, and those living in the encampments burglarizing and attacking residents in the area.

Former President Barack Obama famously once said, "...elections do have consequences." The citizens of New York are about to find out just how right he was. But by then, Zohran Mamdani will have taken a wrecking ball to the city economically and socially, and New Yorkers can look forward to dodging whatever is lurking in every homeless encampment, and there will be a lot of them. Note to New Yorkers: You voted for this. A year from now, can we ask how it's working out for you?

Wait until Mamdani makes public transport free-issue. These will be mobile homeless encampments filled w drugs, trash & disease. Making NYC Never Better
— JimDub497 (@JamesDub0497) December 5, 2025

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