City Repeatedly Sweeps West Village Homeless Woman But Can’t Confirm She’s Homeless For Housing Voucher
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"Staff with Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project are working on getting Vails a CityFHEPS housing voucher — a rent assistance program that anyone sleeping on the street should be eligible for....[but] DHS is refusing to grant her a housing voucher until the agency can verify she is street homeless."What Would It Take To Fully Fund Right To Counsel For NYC Tenants?
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“Obviously the providers want to meet the full representation goals, but that’s not necessarily possible under the current conditions,” - Marika Dias, managing director of the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, a Right to Counsel provider.Complaints over NYC rental voucher renewals and payments rise as city struggles with homeless
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“We are seeing massive delays across the board with practically every single CityFHEPS voucher holder we’ve ever worked with,” said Helen Strom, advocacy director with the Justice Center’s Safety Net Project.Women’s History Month Spotlight: Afua Atta-Mensah on the Black Immigrant Experience
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"Our court systems don’t work for our people. When I was fighting for tenants’ rights as the Urban Justice Center’s Director of Litigation and Policy for the Safety Net Project...it would take years to get a decision."Game of Roams: Homeless New Yorkers Say They’re Subject to Sleepless Game Amid City Sweeps
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"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."New Yorkers to City Council: Mayor Adams’ Directive on Involuntary Removal Is Inhumane and Dangerous
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“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.New bills would expand NYC housing vouchers
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"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.'"The Battle Continues | Food Insecurity
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“'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."Mayor Adams Identifies the 78 Shelter to House Migrants
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"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...'"