Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Voice Recognition

Urban Investigations

Voice Recognition

Air it Out

City Studies

Air it Out

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Students Spring into New Investigations!

Students Spring into New Investigations!

In the past several weeks, CUP launched two Urban Investigations with students to explore social justice issues impacting New Yorkers.

CUP and Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas are collaborating with students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to investigate parole and its impact on New Yorkers. What’s the difference between parole and probation? How many people are impacted by these systems and how could things be different? 

Over the next several weeks students will interview directly involved individuals, elected officials, public defenders, people working in the system, and members of their communities. Through collaborative filmmaking techniques, students will explore the issue and record what they learn to produce a video documentary. Stay tuned for more updates!

CUP and Teaching Artist Chaparro are collaborating with students from the High School for Climate Justice to explore the issue of flooding streets and subways. Why do NYC streets and subways stations flood?  How do these floods impact New Yorkers? How can we work towards a greener future? 

To explore this issue, students will interview stakeholders and members of their community, engage in collaborative artmaking, and create a final printed project that explains what they learned. Check out some images of students in action as they learned how to marble paper, make styrofoam prints, and map their neighborhood!

Fast-Tracked

Urban Investigations

Fast-Tracked

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Weathering the Storm

Technical Assistance

Weathering the Storm

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families