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.”

News 12

“These sweeps are just ultimately a counterproductive and harmful practice,” said Natalie Druce, staff attorney with the [Safety Net Project of the] Urban Justice Center.

Press Releast

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Law 360

“The residents and the Urban Justice Center–Safety Net Project claimed the city has wrongfully seized and destroyed their belongings without due process of law.”

PIX 11

“Helen Strom, the homeless advocacy director for the Safety Net Project says ‘Right now, over four-thousand sweeps are happening every year in our city.’”

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.”

AM NY

“Sweeps are cruel, counterproductive, and cause immense harm to homeless New Yorkers,” said Natalie Druce, staff attorney with the Urban Justice Center Safety Net Project.

Pix 11

"The protest groups, including...the Safety Net Project—Urban Justice Center...fear the mayor will become more aggressive in sweeping homeless encampments from the streets and rousing those sleeping on the subways now that the Supreme Court has made it legal."

Latin Times

"That will trigger a new waiting period for benefits to be restored, said Adriana Mendoza, benefits supervisor at the Urban Justice Center's Safety Net Project."

Gothamist

“For folks having housing issues, that’s more money not going to the landlord,” said Adriana Mendoza, benefits supervisor at the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project. “It’s putting more burden on a situation people are already having.”