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.

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.”

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.'"

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.”

Our Time Press

“In January, according to the Urban Justice Center, the city conducted 133 cleanups, over half of them in Manhattan.”

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."

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."

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.”

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."

Gothamist

“'This is not ‘compassionate,’ it is a tragedy,' said Helen Strom, with the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center. “'It’s time to stop this cruelty and redirect his focus to offering people housing.'”