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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.

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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.


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“When Dealing With The Shelter And Public Assistance, You Have To Have A Crisis To Actually Be Listened To. It’s Terrible . . . .”
– Maria

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Recent Press

Hear Our Voices Podcast: ‘If We Don’t Stick Together, We Won’t Make It’

September 11th, 2025|

City Limits

“White has worked as an advocate with Urban Pathways, the New York City Continuum of Consumer Care and the Safety Net Activists, an organizing group that’s part of the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project. “The number one thing is we have to stick together as a people, right?"

Adams Administration Must Expand City-Funded Rental Subsidies, Appeals Court Says

July 10th, 2025|

Gothamist

"Michael, a member of the Safety Net Activists [of the Street Vendor Project], said he knows how much people need help. “Being disabled, I was able to leave the shelter, come into an apartment. It was a huge improvement in my quality of life.”

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Main Office

40 Rector Street
New 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.

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