The Housing Director’s role is to lead SNP’s landlord-tenant legal services and ensure that SNP’s housing staff receive high quality support and supervision, while maintaining the resources SNP needs to sustain a quality high-volume litigation practice.
SNP Joins Faith-Based Organizations, Medical Professionals, Legal Experts, Academic Leaders, Advocates, & Members of Congress to Urge an End to the Criminalization of Homelessness.
NY Daily News
"Since taking office in January 2022, hallmarks of Mayor Adams’ administration have involved creating a panic around crime, scapegoating NYC’s most vulnerable populations, and slashing social services despite a projected budget surplus." -Marika Dias, Director, SNPCity Limits
"[Marika] Dias, of the Safety Net Project, added that while shelter screening is nothing new, she sees a “categorical difference” in the establishment of a system that sorts people based on their national origin and time of arrival in New York."Gothamist
"In a phone interview, Marika Dias, an attorney who is the managing director of the Safety Net Project, said the settlement agreement effectively creates a “separate but unequal system” that is unavoidably tied to race."The City
“This is not a safeguard of the right to shelter,” the Safety Net Project tweeted on X. “This is a xenophobic rollback.”The Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project (SNP) is seeking applicants for the Supervising Attorney position. SNP’s Supervising Attorneys provide supervision and support to SNP’s Staff Attorneys and Paralegals in its high-volume landlord/tenant practice, while also maintaining a reduced caseload.
NY Daily News
"The vast majority of homeless people's interactions with outreach teams don’t result in transport to shelter, according to NYPD data obtained via a Freedom of Information request by the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project."City Limits
“Across the board we’ve been continuing to see people having significant issues with the process in general, in terms of being able to complete interviews, [and] being able to get their recertifications processed,” said Helen Strom, benefits and homeless advocacy director at the Safety Net Project."City Limits
“They’ve been closing—or as they say, relocating centers to other centers—and so they are leaving people with no other options and forcing them to do things remotely or online or by phone,” said [Adriana] Mendoza of the Safety Net Project.© 2023 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
