Pay Dirt

City Studies

Pay Dirt

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Air it Out

City Studies

Air it Out

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

Public Access Design

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

The Wait

Urban Investigations

The Wait

Print Free For All?

On April 12, 2017, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a free college tuition bill into law. The Excelsior Scholarship makes the City and State Universities of New York tuition-free, but only for qualifying students. Students that are part time, undocumented, or whose families make over $125,000 per year are not eligible. Should college be free for everyone? 

In the winter of 2018, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Gabe Gordon and Yadira Echevarria’s internship class at the international Community High School (ICHS) in the Bronx to find out. To investigate, students got out of the classroom and into the realm of higher education to survey educators and school staff on the value of a degree and the possible hidden costs of education. What are the different types of academic degrees? How much does higher education actually cost? Who decides?

Students created the newspaper Free For All? to teach others what they learned and to help students navigate their higher education options. 

Work Forced

Public Access Design

Work Forced

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Test Ride

City Studies

Test Ride

Step Right Up

City Studies

Step Right Up

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

The Deciders

City Studies

The Deciders

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

What Up With DAT?

Technical Assistance