NYCs Zohran Mamdani and LAs Nithya Raman reveal their coldness toward the homeless

The unclaimed bodies of nine homeless New Yorkers who froze to death during the coldest weeks of our brutal 2025-26 winter were laid to rest this week at St.Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue.Conspicuous by his absence was Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose homeless policies played a key role in those deaths.Last winter served as one of the first real tests of the mayor’s political soul.

Would he live up to his pledge to protect the marginalized? To make the city better for all New Yorkers?As horrified citizens watched their homeless neighbors freeze and die on the streets, it became clear the mayor would not.The cold took the lives of New Yorker after New Yorker, as the mayor stood by his policy of refusing to break up encampments and forcing the homeless indoors only as a “last resort.”So much for the “warmth of collectivism” Mamdani touted in his inauguration speech. After his election, the mayor deployed what is now standard progressive policy around the homeless: Let their encampments stay in place, no matter how high the human cost.That cost is usually counted in increased substance abuse and crime, including sexual assault, the victims of which are frequently other homeless people.But in the winter, that cost rose as the cold came and stayed for weeks: In all, 18 homeless people froze to death.Thanks to the efforts of Rhonda Roland Shearer, a sculptor also known for her relief work, the unclaimed dead have now received some measure of the dignity denied them.But it’s hard to imagine a clearer picture of progressive “compassion” than the mayor’s refusal to show his face.Perhaps Mamdani was afraid of criticism.He’s allegedly become thin-skinned and hypersensitive since he arrived in office and, for the first time, experienced the adult world of accountability for one’s professional actions.And he was given a well-deserved cold shoulder at another funeral — for a US soldier killed by the regime in Tehran.Or perhaps he simply couldn’t be bothered...