Several Arrests Made as NYPD Clears East Village Homeless Encampment
CBS News
“The city should use all this energy and all of this money to get people into apartments," said Helen Strom, of the Safety Net Project.”
New York City Street Vendors Fight to Operate Legally
Axios
"Advocates, including Street Vendor Project deputy director Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, say street vending creates a path toward entrepreneurship, especially for immigrants and people who can’t access capital to start their own businesses.”
Op-Ed: Why the Vernon C. Bain Center Should Close
Norwood News
"The Vernon C. Bain Center, also known as “The Boat,” is perhaps the only floating jail in the country. Advocates have equated it to a slave ship. It’s an extension of Rikers Island. I know both The Boat and Rikers Island well, since I’ve been detained at both places..."Mayor Adams Removes Homeless Encampments, Expands Shelters
Our Time Press
“In January, according to the Urban Justice Center, the city conducted 133 cleanups, over half of them in Manhattan.”New York City Workers Keep Throwing Out Homeless People’s Belongings
NYN Media
“'We routinely see them throwing out people’s belongings,' said Helen Strom, benefits and homeless advocacy director at the Safety Net Project, a direct services provider where employees have observed many sweeps firsthand."‘This is Where We Make Our Stand’: Homeless New Yorkers Refuse to Leave at East Village Camp Sweep
Gothamist
“Helen Strom, with the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center, observed much of the confrontation over the course of the day. 'I just watched probably $100,000 be spent to violently arrest a homeless person who needs an apartment and is just trying to survive in a tent,' Strom said."Corona Plaza Vendors Unite
Queens Daily Eagle
“There is a great need for investment to make the plaza as best as it can be - but with vendors who both live and work in the former epicenter working together, the possibilities are endless,” the Street Vendor Project said on social media. “City planning is at its best when communities are leading the way!”Housing Advocates Rally Outside City Hall Against City Effort to Clear Encampments
NY City Lens
“Sleeping in a room with 18 people or so, you have to worry about someone standing over you,” Sarah Wilson, an advocate with the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center and VOCAL New York, said during the rally. “Stabilization beds, those are what we need…independent rooms.”The Cruel Theater of Encampment Sweeps
Curbed
“The Adams administration claims that it was storing property for the residents of these demolished camps, but Urban Justice Center witnesses at clearances say that outreach workers were telling residents they didn’t have any way to store their belongings."Some NYC Vendors Are Using Excluded Workers Fund Aid to Cover City Fines
https://citylimits.org/2022/03/31/some-nyc-vendors-are-using-excluded-workers-fund-aid-to-cover-city-fines/
“'Vendors have been left doubly excluded, at precisely the moment when New York’s smallest businesses could either stabilize from the pandemic with support to formalize their businesses and relief for excluded workers—or sink further into debt, criminalized and fined for selling food and merchandise,' said Street Vendor Project’s Deputy Director, Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez.”