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Eviction cases “overwhelming” legal services 6 weeks after moratorium’s end
The Real Deal
“Marika Dias, an attorney at the Urban Justice Center, said the city should cut the requirement that tenants must prove their ability to pay rent later down the line and increase available funding."New York Moves Homeless People From Hotels to Shelters as Virus Cases Rise
New York Times
“Cruelty and chaos,” Helen Strom, supervisor of benefits and homeless advocacy at the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center, said on Monday afternoon. “People are being sent to places where they have active domestic violence cases and orders of protection.New NYC Eviction Cases Start To Move As State Teases Action
Law 360
But Marika Dias, managing director of the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, called it "entirely unjust and shameful" that the courts have begun issuing default judgments in these cases. Tenants have run into trouble when they try to answer their petitions by phone, as the courts have instructed them to do, she said.NYC courts could face wave of post-pandemic eviction cases
Daily News
Marika Dias, director of the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, said it was critical that tenants know that while evictions are slowly starting to be filed, the process for considering the case and obtaining an order to leave an apartment remains on pause.‘We need to fix it quickly.’ Asymptomatic coronavirus cases at Boston homeless shelter raise red flag
Erie News Now
Kiana Davis, a policy analyst at the Urban Justice Center's Safety Net Project, says that while the New York is making an effort to do temperature checks, it is not happening consistently at every shelter.Safety Net Project – Housing Director
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.
Safety Net Project – Supervising Attorney
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.
Letter to Mayor Adams Regarding the Right to Shelter
Please share this open letter with your communities September 8, 2023 Dear Mayor Adams: We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to call on the City to uphold the right to shelter in New York City, to swiftly house [...]
Housing Staff Attorney
SNP seeks applicants for a Housing Staff Attorney. SNP’s Staff Attorneys provide direct legal representation to tenants in landlord-tenant cases, including civil proceedings in NYC Housing Court, affirmative litigation, and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) administrative hearings and appeals.
The Battle Continues | Food Insecurity
Broadway Stages
“'In some cases, the parents are not eating in order to ensure that whatever money there is for food is going to the children,' Adriana Mendoza, a benefits supervisor for the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center."
WANT TO JOIN THE FIGHTING FORCE?
The Social Justice Accelerator awards chosen applicants an opportunity and resources to develop their social justice initiatives.
