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Mayor Mamdani: Tear down this sprawl!

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New York City spends a small fortune on the homeless.

Mayor Mamdani’s latest budget includes, for instance, a $1.9 billion “emergency” hotel shelter contract.

The Department of Homeless Services estimates it will spend an astounding $97,000 per street homeless person in the next fiscal year.

If taxpayers are going to shell out that much money, we need — nay, deserve — something in return.

And that something is streets free of homeless encampments.

If the city is going to have a “right to shelter,” then there should be a covenant that the mentally ill and substance addicts must take that shelter.

Mamdani is pandering to entitled voters who splash out $8 for........

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