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.”

City Limits

"They actually make it much harder for people to maintain relationships with outreach workers, because they’re constantly being moved from place to place,” said Natalie Druce, a staff attorney at the Safety Net Project."

Gothamist

"Natalie Druce, a staff attorney for the Safety Net Project, a homeless advocacy group, said the data is even more urgent now that the Adams administration can legally evict adult migrants from city shelters once they reach their 30- or 60-day limits and don’t meet a list of allowable exceptions."

BK Daily Eagle

But Natalie Druce, a staff attorney at the housing advocacy group Safety Net Project, said she thought HOPE count figures showed certain Adams administration policies–like persistent encampment sweeps or hospitalizing homeless people against their will–weren’t working.

Spectrum Noticias

"Porque lo hacen en invierno y lo qué pasa es que muchas veces toda la gente sin hogar que está en la calle por la noche están escondiéndose dentro de lugares donde está difícil encontrarlos", dijo Marika Dias, de Safety Net Project Urban Justice.