Urban Justice

Most Recent Press

"The State of Public Housing," The Brian Lehrer Show, June 18, 2010
Alexa Kasdan, director of research and policy at the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project, and Agnes Rivera, board member at Community Voices Heard and a resident of the Wagner Houses in East Harlem, discuss their report "We Call These Projects Home: Solving the Housing Crisis from the Ground Up".

Agency-Wide Press

VIDEO "Jonathan Cole Interview," The Charlie Rose Show, March 2, 2010

VIDEO "The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence Its Indispensable National Role Why It Must be Protected," Book TV, February 27, 2010

PDF "Guess what? All judges make policy," NY Daily News, July 16, 2009

PDF "Tyranny of the majority," Albany Times Union, June 21, 2009

PDF "Newark Mayor: Deferred Start Dates for Law Grads Provide Opportunities," The American Lawyer, April 9, 2009

MP3 "The Price of Poverty," The Brian Lehrer Show, WYNC, January 7, 2009
Listen to UJC Executive Director, Doug Lasdon

PDF "Gov. David Paterson has a promise to keep: Increase the basic welfare grant," NY Daily News, December 18, 2008

PDF "Lawsuit Aims to Increase NY's Basic Welfare Grant," NY Times, December 9, 2008

PDF "Suit Aims to Hike Welfare Payments," WNYC, December 9, 2008

PDF "Welfare recipients file lawsuit against NY," Associated Press, December 9, 2008

Articles about our innovative, ground-breaking, and often controversial work have appeared in a number of publications, including The New York Times, the New York Post, New York's Daily News, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice.

In addition, because we often use the media as a forum for advocating for the poor, many of our staff's opinion articles and letters to the editors of these and other publications have been printed.

"The Paterson Scandal and Domestic Violence--Letter to the Editor," New York Times, March 4, 2010
"Letter in Response to 'Hype and Horror in Human Trafficking'," Washington Post, September 26, 2007
"Letter RE: Food Stamps in New York," The New York Times, April 25, 2006
"Letter to the Editor RE: Las Vegas, the Microcosm," The New York Times, June 6, 2004
"Letter to the Editor RE: Putting the Sex Trade on Notice," The New York Times, January 16, 2004