{"id":67345,"date":"2026-02-25T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/mamdani-names-social-services-chief-amid-scrutiny-over-deaths-of-homeless-new-yorkers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:02:13","slug":"mamdani-names-social-services-chief-amid-scrutiny-over-deaths-of-homeless-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/mamdani-names-social-services-chief-amid-scrutiny-over-deaths-of-homeless-new-yorkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani names social services chief amid scrutiny over deaths of homeless New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department commissioner will be Erin Dalton, who conducted outreach in Pennsylvania among unhoused communities<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York\u2019s<\/a> mayor, has hired Erin Dalton as a new commissioner of the city\u2019s department of social services.<\/p>\n<p>The hire comes as the new mayor has faced scrutiny over the city\u2019s handling of its unhoused population following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/07\/homelessness-new-york-cold-winter\">deaths of at least 20 people<\/a> who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/31\/new-york-homeless-danger-cold-deaths\">found outdoors<\/a> during an especially cold winter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/25\/mamdani-nyc-erin-dalton\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department commissioner will be Erin Dalton, who conducted outreach in Pennsylvania among unhoused communities Zohran Mamdani, New York\u2019s mayor, has hired Erin Dalton as a new commissioner of the city\u2019s department of social services. The hire comes as the new mayor has faced scrutiny over the city\u2019s handling of its unhoused population following the deaths &#8230; <a title=\"Mamdani names social services chief amid scrutiny over deaths of homeless New Yorkers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/mamdani-names-social-services-chief-amid-scrutiny-over-deaths-of-homeless-new-yorkers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mamdani names social services chief amid scrutiny over deaths of homeless New Yorkers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}