City Limits
"Despite the mayor’s repeated statements that he wants to fund more ‘upstream’ services that address the city’s mental health crisis, his agenda, instead, focuses on post-crisis points and increased law enforcement...the mayor must invest in more preventive and evidenced-based supports. - Jennifer J. Parish & Marco Barrios, Mental Health ProjectCity Limits
"Crystal Vails, a member with the Safety Net Project, has been homeless for 13 years, though she now has a lead on an apartment in Queens with the help of a city-issued rental voucher...Nevertheless, she said she’s been swept multiple times this year, and the experience is stressful."City Limits
"Mayor Eric Adams’s current budget contains even more cuts to the commission which do nothing but create unnecessary harm to everyday New Yorkers." Co-written by Amy Leipziger, Director of Free to Be YouthNY Daily News
“Sometimes people just want to scapegoat the vendors and blame them for their problems,” said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Street Vendor Project. “I don’t really think they are making this whole effort concerned about the health of New Yorkers."Vogue India
"In July 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, U.S.-based organisation South Asian SOAR launched South Asians for Abortion."Gothamist
"Karim Walker, an outreach organizer with the homeless rights group Safety Net Project, was approved in August 2020 for a one-bedroom apartment in East New York that he applied for two years earlier. It took about five months before he was finally able to move in. Walker said he has thrived since then."Riverdale Press
"In the 2000s, the facility was known as The Riverdale Manor Home for Adults, and it catered to people with mental illness. That was supposed to change in 2013 when a lawsuit challenging the illegal warehousing of people with mental illness in adult homes was settled, according to the Urban Justice Center."CBS News
"You can try the freshest quesadillas you've ever had in your entire life, hand-pressed right here in the plaza," [said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, Deputy Director, Street Vendor Project].Teen Vogue
"I also fall under some of many other statistics: I’m among the up to 40% of homeless youth in the US who identify as LGBTQ+. I’m one of approximately 8,400 queer youth in New York City who are homeless." - Co-written by Davina Hayes & Free to Be Youth Project Director Amy LeipzigerCity Limits
"Ethel Brown, a member of the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Activists, accused the mayor of a “bait and switch” in a statement late Friday. Her organization is a strong proponent of the City Council’s broader voucher reform package."© 2024 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
