Manhattan Express News

"These sweeps are designed not to help people, but to break spirits. Mayor Adams and Commissioner Jenkins must stop these sweeps and offer people permanent homes,” Karim Walker said, an outreach worker and organizer with the Safety Net Project."

CUPR

“While Mayor Adams has billed this as a mental health directive, it is clear who the intended targets are: the city’s street homeless...these forced hospitalizations are another part of his plans to police our homeless neighbors out of sight without properly addressing their material needs...” testified Karim Walker with the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center.

Manhattan Times News

"Karim Walker of the [Safety Net Project of the] Urban Justice Center testified that landlords and brokers refuse to rent to prospective tenants with the vouchers, 'even though the money is basically guaranteed.'"

Broadway Stages

“'In some cases, the parents are not eating in order to ensure that whatever money there is for food is going to the children,' Adriana Mendoza, a benefits supervisor for the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center."

NewsBreak

"Craig Hughes a social worker with the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center said: 'Sheltering people in a tent with hundreds of cots crammed together during a pandemic, just as winter approaches, is a particularly frightening path for the city to take...'"

AM NY

"Karim Walker, an organizer with the [Safety Net Project of the] Urban Justice Center who is a recipient of a CityFHEPS voucher, called the program “nothing short of a godsend.” Walker said the program’s biggest issues are the 90-day wait period, the process of moving someone to safe housing, and income discrimination."

Gothamist

"Adriana Mendoza is a benefits supervisor for the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, which works with about 2,000 low-income households. She said when the city does not process the food stamp applications on time, the families must scramble to borrow money or sell valuables to feed themselves. "

City Limits

City Limits Most Read 2022 Housing Story: "NYC’s New Housing Voucher Rules Will Drastically Expand Income Eligibility for Renewals" - “It’s a really, really, really big win,” Sarah Wilson, an organizer with the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project, said of the October rule change."

City Limits

“'It seems like the state is more concerned about the error rate than about hundreds of thousands of people not eating because of the delays,' said Adriana Mendoza, benefits supervisor at the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center."