The Issue: The deaths of 17 New Yorkers following Mayor Mamdani’s pro-encampment homeless policy.

Is Mayor Mamdani’s strategy for solving the city’s housing crisis to encourage the homeless to freeze to death on the streets (“Mamdani’s City Is Not Functioning,” Editorial, Feb. 3)?

If what we are seeing from the mayor is the warmth of collectivism, I suggest that we return to rugged individualism.

The colder, the better.

Joseph Koenig

Manhattan

If Mamdani is for the people, as he claims, then he should listen to the homeless.

They have sent their message loud and clear: They’d rather freeze to death than go to a homeless shelter.

So it’s a no-brainer: Fix the homeless shelters.

Celia Oliva

Hopewell Junction

Mamdani promised the “warm embrace of collectivism,” but for New York City’s most vulnerable, the consequences are clear: 17 people have died during the most recent cold snap, 13 of........

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