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Housing Advocates Rally Against Mayor Adams’ Block of CityFHEPS Housing Voucher Reforms as Legal Battle Intensifies

2025-02-10T12:53:52-05:00February 5th, 2025|

AM NY

“Participants also expressed discontent with Mayor Eric Adams’ handling of the crisis. “The verdict is in: guilty on all counts,” said Calvin Michael, a member of the Safety Net Activists [of the Safety Net Project at UJC]."

New City Rules Make It Harder to Access ‘Low-Barrier’ Homeless Shelters: Lawsuit

2025-02-03T12:47:31-05:00January 31st, 2025|

City Limits

“Most homeless outreach interactions are not documented in City databases at all, and many homeless people...would not have their health conditions documented in City homeless databases,” the Safety Net Project said in a press release announcing the lawsuit.”

In the Most Expensive City in the Country, Evictions Remain Lower than Before COVID-19

2025-02-03T12:45:54-05:00January 14th, 2025|

Eviction Lab

“As right to counsel was rolled out and phased in, and more and more people had lawyers, we did start to see a drop in the number of case filings, because no longer could landlords assume that these frivolous cases were going to yield the same results,” said [Marika Dias, Director of SNP.]

Homeless People Sue New York City for Throwing Away Their Property

2024-11-04T12:22:13-05:00November 4th, 2024|

NY Times

"The Safety Net Project's... lawsuit accuses the city of routinely violating its own policy on cleanups, which says the city must offer to store certain types of confiscated property for up to 90 days and give the owner a voucher to claim it.”

NYC’s Homeless Camp Sweeps Violate Constitution, Lawsuit Claims

2024-11-04T12:24:23-05:00October 30th, 2024|

The City

“City data shared from the Urban Justice Center Safety Net Project...showed more than 1,000 homeless New Yorkers were caught up in encampment sweeps between January and June of this year, with hundreds of encampment sweeps each month in the time Adams has been in office.”