A core tenet of defund ideology holds that nothing that law enforcement does ever “works,” whereas everything that’s done in the social services is wildly successful.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has applied this thinking to Mayor Adams’ effort to clean up homeless encampments.
In a new report, Lander recommends that, because relatively few of the encampment-dwellers targeted by the Adams program accepted services, the “counterproductive sweeps” should be abandoned. Instead, the city should scale up efforts to provide no-strings-attached permanent housing, in accord with the philosophy known as “Housing First.”
New Yorkers envious of the sprawling tent cities now common in other big metro areas and who wonder “why we can’t have more of that here?” will hail the Lander report as a welcome contribution.
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Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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