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.
Safe, secure housing and fundamental resources for underserved and marginalized communities
Direct Legal Services
Provide free legal services to low and no-income individuals at clinics located at food pantries and community centers throughout NYC
Research and Policy Advocacy
Our reports, coalition work, and legislative advocacy have brought lasting change to thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers.
Community Organizing
Our work is shaped and guided by the Safety Net Activists, volunteer community leaders committed to fighting poverty and injustice in NYC
Media Advocacy
We have created a new media advocacy platform to elevate the voices of those who have historically been excluded from traditional media
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“Everyone has their own safety net, be it friends or family, but if that runs out […] you just have to keep making lemonade.”
– Althea
Join our fight for social & economic justice
Obtaining essential public benefits
should not be this hard
Bureaucracy
of
Benefits
Recent Press
NYC welfare recipients endure long waits, bad treatment from staff: study
For New Yorkers who rely on public assistance, the average wait-time at facilities that offer these benefits is three hours. The following article by the Daily News, features quotes and statistics from the Safety Net Project’s report: Bureaucracy of Benefits.
Shuffled Among Homeless Shelters, and Not Told Why
Read this New York Times article about the Safety Net Activists' recent report on harmful “transfer” practices imposed on people living in NYC’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelters.
Advocates Call On City To Keep Harlem Food Stamp Office Open
Kiana Davis, our benefits advocate at SNP, speaks with Patch.com about the closure of Central Harlem's food stamp office and its negative effect on the most vulnerable benefits recipients.
Contact
Safety
Net
Project
We welcome your questions and comments
Main Office
40 Rector StreetNew York, NY 10006
Telephone: 646.602.5600
Email: snp@urbanjustice.org
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.
