Safety
Net
Project
We preserve and strengthen families and communities by fighting to prevent evictions, illegal rent increases, uninhabitable living conditions, and other attacks on our social safety net.
The Safety Net Project stands in unconditional solidarity in the fight against all forms of white supremacy and anti-blackness. With sorrow and rage, we recognize that the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and Ahmaud Arbery represent only some of the many Black lives lost to racist state violence in all its forms. We speak their names and the names of others like. Eleanor Bumper, Amadou Diallo, Kimani Grey, Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, David Felix, Delrawn Small, Deborah Danner, Saheen Vassell,and so many more killed by the NYPD. We mourn their deaths and we unequivocally condemn the racist policing apparatus that has taken so many Black lives. Read the rest of our statement of solidarity in the struggle for black lives.
Recent Press
IDs, Coats, A Microwave: The Few Items Stored During NYC Homeless Encampment Sweeps
Gothamist
"In October, six homeless New Yorkers and the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project sued the Adams administration in federal court, alleging the sweeps violated people’s due process and protections against unreasonable searches and seizures."New York City’s Homeless Encampment Sweeps Under Scrutiny Despite Mayor Adams’ $650 Million Mental Health Initiative
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.”NYC Says it Moved 3,500 People Out of Homeless Encampments, But Just 114 Into Shelter
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]."Contact
Safety
Net
Project
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Main Office
40 Rector StreetNew York, NY 10006
Telephone: 646.602.5600
Email: [email protected]
Hours
M-F: 9:00AM-6:00PM
The Safety Net Project does not conduct client intake at our Rector Street Office. For information about our services and walk-in clinics, check out our legal clinic flyer.
