NY Focus

“Diana Ramos, an activist with Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project and a SNAP recipient from the Bronx, called the ongoing rollout of the new rules in New York City a “chaos bin.”

AM NY

“Calvin Michael, an activist with the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project, a collective of people who are currently and formerly unhoused, told amNewYork that if it weren’t for the CityFHEPS program that he would still be living in crowded, often unsafe city shelters.”

Gothamist

“A spokesperson for the advocacy group, the Safety Net Project, said the city had issued more than 70 notices in the last week.”

NY Amsterdam News

“It starts at home,” said Ramos, a Safety Net Activist [with SNP]. She framed the “No More Crumbs” rally as part of an effort to rebuild the kind of mass, cross-neighborhood mobilization that shaped earlier welfare rights fights.

Gothamist

“I need help with the rent because I don't want to go back to the way I was,” Figueroa said. “I feel like a little mouse trapped in a corner with no way out.” Attorneys from the Safety Net Project, part of the organization Urban Justice Center, are representing Figueroa in housing court.

NY Daily News

“This is a big reversal and a big betrayal,” Helen Strom of the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project told the Daily News. “Some things from recent months were working and we were seeing them succeed in terms of opening up more low-barrier beds and single rooms, and being more flexible on meeting people where they were at."

NY Focus

“My brain just couldn’t wrap itself around what the heck was going on,” said Diana Ramos, an activist with Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project and a SNAP recipient from the Bronx.”

The City

"When I tried to call HRA to address the issue in 2023, I waited on hold for four to five hours but only to be hung up on,” said Diana Ramos, an activist with the Safety Net Project and a SNAP recipient."

City Limits

 “We have New Yorkers struggling right now,” said Diana Ramos, a member of the Safety Net Activists of the Safety Net Project and a CityFHEPS voucher holder (though she wasn’t impacted by the rule change).  “Housing people is cheaper than leaving someone to rot in the shelter.”

NY Daily News

"Last week Mayor Adams and conservative media told New Yorkers to start panicking about Zohran Mamdani’s plan to end homeless sweeps. Really, we should be relieved. After decades of failed homeless policy, finally we have a leader who is promising to try something different, and more importantly, to implement policies that are humane and effective. -Marika Dias, Director, Safety Net Project"