City Limits

“‘The clear solution is for the city to get serious about housing for homeless New Yorkers no matter where they come from,’ said Karim Walker, an organizer with the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center who has experienced homelessness.”

New York Focus

‘Corporate-funded outreach teams will most likely be focused on getting homeless people out of sight and off corporate property, far more than getting them housed,’ said Kathleen Cash, homeless and benefits advocate for the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project.”

City Journal

"Rikers inmates are around 56 percent black and 33 percent Hispanic. Longtime BOC member Robert Cohen—who had previously scolded Mayor de Blasio for reforming too slowly—insisted that DOC commissioner Molina, himself Hispanic, exhibited ‘structural racism.’ Cohen recommended that ‘the Department should discharge’ inmates from jail. Indeed, it’s a common sight at BOC meetings for representatives of such organizations as the Legal Aid Society, the Bronx Defenders, and the Urban Justice Center to lambast the DOC for its racist inhumanity."

NY Times

“‘Mayor Adams, your constituents are dying,’ Dr. Victoria A. Phillips, who works with the [Mental Health Project of the] Urban Justice Center, said at the rally. ‘You said you represent the Black and brown community, well, step up. Step up and save us."

Broadway World

"Titled “We Tell The Story”, the culminating event of the Arts in Action Festival is a one-night-only celebration of arts advocacy featuring music, dance & spoken word [featuring UJC among others].