(DNAINFO)  Danielle Tcholakian | December 21, 2016 — ACE, which employs homeless men and women to clean city streets, can no longer afford SoHo office rents.

ACE, the long-running organization that employs homeless men and women to clean New York City streets, is leaving SoHo after nearly 25 years due to the area’s high office rent prices.

The organization had stopped cleaning the streets of SoHo, TriBeCa and Nolita in October due to “ever-increasing costs associated with providing donation-based sanitation services” in those neighborhoods, Executive Director James Martin said in a statement.

“While we are sad to leave our friends and neighbors in Lower Manhattan, the discontinuation of donation based sanitation services in these neighborhoods and the relocation of our program headquarters will positively impact our finances and our programs, allowing us to continue our mission, and better serve more of the estimated 60,000 New Yorkers experiencing homelessness in New York City,” Martin said in the statement.

Source: Homeless Street-Cleaning Organization Pushed Out of SoHo After 25 Years – SoHo – DNAinfo New York