Forbidding people to sleep before 2:30 am, or only providing chairs to sleep in, only exacerbates the degrading terms of the xenophobic deal City Hall brokered last month. Mayor Adams, protect the right to shelter for all in NYC!
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In the fight for housing justice, rolling back protections against unjust rent increases is a step in the wrong direction. I stand w/ tenants in calling for the passage of strong, statewide Good Cause Eviction & for resisting changes to IAIs that would displace hardworking NYers.

NYC Mayor Adams has decided to systematically deny immigrant workers and asylum seekers equal access to the city's shelter system, in an agreement recently reached with Legal Aid Society and others.

Read more from Marika Dias Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center @urbanjustice: nydailynews.com/2024/03/20/ada…

Cost of living has skyrocketed, but Cash Assistance hasn’t increased for years, keeping thousands of NYers stuck in poverty. That’s why NY Assembly Majority included an increase in Cash Assistance in their budget proposal. Let’s get it passed in the Final budget #IncreaseCashAssistance

$6 a day for those not in shelter and $1.50 a day for people living in shelter is a travesty. We need to #IncreaseCashAssistance now! New York State Senate Sen. Stewart-Cousins Carl E. Heastie Roxanne J. Persaud Cordell Cleare NYS Senator Brian Kavanagh 卡范納 Governor Kathy Hochul pls pass cash increases in the final budget

The cost of buying basic household items like clothing, diapers, toilet paper, hygiene items, over the counter medication, sanitary pads, etc. has gone up and this increase would allow New Yorkers the ability to meet their basic needs!

We’re encouraged that NY Assembly Majority included an increase in Cash Assistance in their budget proposal. Now, we urge the full legislature & Governor Kathy Hochul to #IncreaseCashAssistance for all, incl. ppl in shelter, in the final budget Sen. Stewart-Cousins Roxanne J. Persaud
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NYC’s right to shelter is for all, no matter where you’re born. But right now it’s under attack. We see Adams scapegoating new immigrants, as if immigrants aren't striving to succeed, despite all the obstacles, incl. shelter denials-ICYMI: Read SNP op ed on Mayor's discrimination

The current cash amounts are simply not enough to provide for someone’s basic needs says Safety Net Activists and cash assistance recipients – Dinick Martinez & Ethel Brown. Increasing cash assistance is homeless prevention #IncreaseCashAssistanceNow

The Mayor yesterday: “The system was never built for people to come [from] anywhere on the globe, stay here for as long as they want, on taxpayers’ dollars” What about all the real estate investors profiting from tax subsidies while hoarding vacant apartments? #DoubleStandard

No matter where you were born, the right to shelter is for all New Yorkers. It's imperative that we see that the right to shelter is under attack not from those below, but by those above in power.

OPINION | Adams' unfair homelessness and migrants policy

The mayor has encouraged us to believe that those who have the least in our city (not even a roof over their heads) are the source of our woes, Marika Dias of Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center writes.
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'Our shelter challenges did not begin with an influx of immigrants and they certainly should not be solved by discriminating against them.'
An op-ed by Marika Dias, managing director, Safety Net Project of Urban Justice Center
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Cash assistance helps people climb out of poverty, but some rates have not changed since the days we listened to Whitney Houston on our Walkmen.

Proud that NY Assembly Majority included my proposal boosting decades-old grants in our budget plan. Now let’s secure in the final!

“To legally enshrine an unequal system is obviously deeply concerning to us,” said Marika Dias, managing director of the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center.

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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.

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