Hoodline

"Eduardo Ventura, a member of the advocacy group Safety Net Activists, echoed the sentiment in a Gothamist piece, “They should be using all of these city resources and millions of dollars to give homes to people but instead they use it to push and kick them around in the streets,” Ventura said.”

Gothamist

“They should be using all of these city resources and millions of dollars to give homes to people but instead they use it to push and kick them around in the streets,” said Eduardo Ventura, who has previously been cleared out in the city’s sweeps and is a member of the advocacy group Safety Net Activists [of the Safety Net Project]."

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]."

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.”

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.]

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

Six of Our Clients Are Suing NYC to Stop the Violent Sweeps of Unhoused People - Read Our Press Release

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.’”