Sure, we both know the answer to that but you bring up something of an odd coincidence.
Sometime before the start of the "Gulf War II" protests, I started seeing stickers and Xeroxed sheets being affixed to phone booths and traffic light switch boxes calling for adding a constitutional amendment to make housing a right. You can even see some of them still up along Broadway in the low 50's. Now, the last time I saw this kind of rubbish was when there was a raft of Alphabet City squatter evictions during Rudy's tenure.
What people OUTSIDE of New York shopuld keep in mind is this: any homeless person(s) requesting shelter from the city MUST be housed on the taxpayer's dime. This arose from an activist court's ruling about a decade ago. Also, a good portion of those "on the street" actually choose to be there. Of course, it's the fault of the Republicans...couldn't be the DemoRats.
Each season in NYC seems to bring some kind of overriding protest "theme". I'm a native and I've seen the cycle of insanity go from pet cause to pet cause...it seems that they have a two-month half-life before either something new is brought up or an evergreen chestnut is trotted out again.
This city is a MAGNET for head cases and lunatic libs...STILL the greatest city in the world despite all of that.