NewsBreak

"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...'"

AM NY

"Karim Walker, an organizer with the [Safety Net Project of the] Urban Justice Center who is a recipient of a CityFHEPS voucher, called the program “nothing short of a godsend.” Walker said the program’s biggest issues are the 90-day wait period, the process of moving someone to safe housing, and income discrimination."

Gothamist

"Adriana Mendoza is a benefits supervisor for the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, which works with about 2,000 low-income households. She said when the city does not process the food stamp applications on time, the families must scramble to borrow money or sell valuables to feed themselves. "

City Limits

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City Limits

“'It seems like the state is more concerned about the error rate than about hundreds of thousands of people not eating because of the delays,' said Adriana Mendoza, benefits supervisor at the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center."

City Limits

"'It seems like the state is more concerned about the error rate than about hundreds of thousands of people not eating because of the delays,' said Adriana Mendoza, benefits supervisor at the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center."

New York Times

“We’re at the highest number of homeless people in New York City since the dawn of modern homelessness in the late 1970s,” said Craig Hughes, a senior social worker at the [Safety Net Project of the] Urban Justice Center, a nonprofit law firm for the indigent.

Head Topics

“The thousands of sweeps that the city has conducted are horrific and are part and parcel of the city’s war on poor and homeless New Yorkers,” said Karim Walker, an organizer and outreach worker at the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center."

Gothamist

“Sweeps are traumatizing and downright violent. The thousands of sweeps that the city has conducted are horrific and are part and parcel of the city’s war on poor and homeless New Yorkers,” said Karim Walker, an organizer and outreach worker at the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center.

Yahoo News

"Craig Hughes, a senior social worker at the nonprofit Safety Net Project [of the UJC], said Adams should focus on getting homeless New Yorkers into supportive housing — where they can access social services in addition to shelter — instead of hospitalizing “people for being poor in public.”