Housing the homeless in NYC: Rally at The Lucerne to discuss housing plan
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Watch an interview with Helen Strom, Benefits Unit Supervisor of the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center.
‘Game Over’: Food Carts Adjust to a Changed City
New York Times
“Most of the vendors are working and they’ve seen a small amount of pickup in the last few months, but others are just waiting because even just to set up the coffee or falafel cart in Midtown costs too much,” said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center. Vendors must not only pay for the food and beverages they stock each day, but also pay an S.U.V. or a van $50 to $80 a day to transport the cart back and forth from depots in Queens and elsewhere.Tablets for Inmates: New NYC Jails Chief Presents Reform Plan Ahead of Next Mayor
The City
“I feel positive that they are working really hard to change around a system that’s just a disaster,” said Jennifer Parish, director of criminal justice advocacy at the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project.Shelter Residents Challenge de Blasio’s Homeless Hotel Clearance Policy in Court
City Limits
A handful of shelter residents and three advocacy organizations, including the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project and the Coalition for the Homeless, filed a motion in Manhattan federal court Thursday as part of an ongoing class action lawsuit compelling the city to meet the needs of disabled shelter residents.Disabled homeless sue Mayor de Blasio for moving them back into NYC shelters
NY Daily News
“These hotel evictions are cruel, dangerous, illegal and racist,” said Helen Strom, a legal advocate at the Urban Justice Center, who is representing several homeless people included in the lawsuit.Thousands Being Sent Back to Homeless Shelters in Return to Pre-Pandemic Status Quo
City Limits
After Ernest contacted advocates from the groups Neighbors Together and the Safety Net Project, a branch of the Urban Justice Center, organizers arrived to halt the move because residents did not receive the 48-hour written notice required by law. Safety Net advocates have made similar visits to shelters elsewhere in the city ahead of abrupt transfers to unknown locations and have distributed Know Your Rights materials to shelter residents.City Starts Kicking Thousands of Homeless People From Hotels Back to Shelters
The City
“The pattern of moves is very clear,” said Helen Strom, a legal advocate with the Safety Net Project, an advocacy group for homeless and low-income New Yorkers. ”The city’s starting with almost exclusively Manhattan hotels, primarily in Midtown, in white and wealthy areas.”City Council Set To Approve Dramatic Increase For NY City FHEPS Housing Voucher
Harlem World Magazine
The passage of this legislation caps a years-long fight by Win, Neighbors Together, VOCAL-NY, the Urban Justice Center, Picture the Homeless, the United Federation of Teachers, and others in the effort to increase the value of CityFHEPS vouchers and help more homeless families move out of shelters since 2018.Nonprofit Raises Over $167K to Help NY’s Struggling Street Food Vendors Feed the Hungry
Yahoo News
The Urban Justice Center, a nonprofit organization that supports New York’s marginalized groups through advocacy and legal representation, has been actively helping street food vendors get back on their feet while also feeding the hungry through its Street Vendor Project.Out-Of-Work Asian Street Vendors Feed Food-Insecure Communities In NYC
HuffPost
In this time of need, one group stepped in with a solution, at least for food vendors: Over the last year, the Urban Justice Center’s Street Vendor Project ― through major funding from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s $100 million COVID-19 relief effort ― paid more than 90 vendors to get back in their trucks and cook free meals for food-insecure New Yorkers.