Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Bail's Set... What's Next?

Public Access Design

Bail's Set... What's Next?

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

Print What is asylum?

Tens of thousands of migrants arrive to the United States each year seeking protection from persecution in their native country. The US government is obliged to offer asylum to those who can prove they need protecting, allowing refugees to start a new life in the US. However, not everyone who is eligible for asylum ends up receiving it. The asylum process is often dangerously misunderstood, and false information is commonly provided to asylum seekers, jeopardizing their chance to receive relief. How does the asylum process work? Who can asylum seekers turn to for help?

CUP teamed up with The Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and design studio Bardo Industries to create What is Asylum?, a trilingual fold-out poster in English, Spanish, and French. The illustrated poster guides asylum seekers— many of whom have limited English and literacy skills— step-by-step through the difficult process of receiving asylum, and provides information about other resources they can turn to for assistance. 

The Fresh Producers

Urban Investigations

The Fresh Producers

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

Technical Assistance

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?

Envisioning Development

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?