What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Know Your Lines

Making Policy Public

Know Your Lines

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

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Public Access Design

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Weathering the Storm

Technical Assistance

Weathering the Storm

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. 

Safe Space?

City Studies

Safe Space?

Free For All?

City Studies

Free For All?

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Public Access Design

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court