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“Vending has always been big along Roosevelt, especially in Jackson Heights and Corona, but even more so now, because so many people have lost their income, are facing eviction, and have no safety net,” says Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of The Street Vendor Project."City Limits
“Craig Hughes, a social worker with the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project, said moving people from one shelter to another can have “acutely traumatizing and destabilizing” effects and recommended that the city allow people to stay in the hotel until they get an apartment.”NY Daily News
In 2017, organizing by NYC tenants won a groundbreaking right to counsel in eviction proceedings that has had stunning success: With tenants now entitled to representation, 84% of tenants with lawyers are able to stay in their homes. Now, in the name of returning to business as usual, this essential right is being trampled by the courts...[and] the result will be displacement and a rapid growth in homelessness.Jacobin
“We routinely see them throwing out people’s belongings,” Helen Strom, benefits and homeless advocacy director at the Safety Net Project, a direct services provider, told City & State New York.NY Daily News
Helen Strom, director of benefits and homeless advocacy at the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project…blamed the reason for that disparity on a rigid system that tends to stymie the needy and poor instead of helping them.AM NY
"Many people are and will be involved in the criminal legal system even as we make progress to reduce incarceration. Building borough jails is a necessary step to protect human rights – along with accountability to make sure these jails are run differently – and we urge the mayor to move quickly on both,” Anna Pastoressa said, a member of Freedom Agenda.”City Limits
“Safety Net Project, outspoken critics of the sweeps policy, said outreach teams making cleanup recommendations only sabotage their own efforts and undermine the trust they must earn from homeless New Yorkers as they encourage them to move to shelter.”El Diario
“Darren Mack, codirector de la organización Freedom Agenda, se refirió a los cambios en las leyes de fianzas, y aseguró que justo cuando se necesitaba que la Gobernadora y los legisladores defendieran las reformas judiciales y se restaurara la financiación de los servicios sociales, hicieron todo lo contrario.”New York Times
The show “Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded,” which opened in October 2021, paid tribute to immigrant cultures and labor in New York. “We got a lot of exposure thanks to the exhibit,” said Mohamed Attia, the director of the Street Vendor Project, which worked on the show and is part of the Urban Justice Center.CBS NY
"'It was awful, it was stupid, and it was violent,' said Helen Strom, director of homeless advocacy for Safety Net Project...'What the mayor should be doing is he should be sending out housing specialists to get people into apartments, instead of spending hundreds of thousands of tax payer money on police.'"© 2024 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
