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
Transcript: Mayor Mamdani Holds Press Conference To Make Infrastructure Announcement
NYC.gov
"It was a broad coalition that reflected just how universal this need is. Vocal New York, AARP, the Coalition for the Homeless, the Street Vendor Project, the Safety Net Project, the Workers Justice Project, Legal Aid, JFREJ, the Carroll Gardens Association, Menstrual Equity Advocates. My chief, Ryan Hickey, who's here, who brought this legislation to our office. And I want to mention that Council Member Rita Joseph and Comptroller Mark Levine also did a lot of work in the Council around bathrooms."Mamdani Faces Questions Over Sprawling Homeless Camp Report on Manhattan’s West Side
NBC New York
“There was no 12-block long encampment. That’s a complete lie," said Helen Strom, of the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, which works with street homeless in the area."
Advocates Say ‘Chaos’ Is Mounting as Counties Implement New Snap Rules
NY Focus
“Diana Ramos, an activist with Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project and a SNAP recipient from the Bronx, called the ongoing rollout of the new rules in New York City a “chaos bin.”Contact
Safety
Net
Project
We welcome your questions and comments
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.
