What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Blunt Conversations

Urban Investigations

Blunt Conversations

I Got Arrested! Now What?

Making Policy Public

I Got Arrested! Now What?

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Print Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive? - Simplified Chinese

Rent stabilization is a law that makes housing more affordable to thousands of New Yorkers by limiting how often and how much rent can go up. But tenants don’t always know their rights, and are sometimes afraid to demand them. Landlords eager to cash in on increasing property values often pressure tenants to move out, and harass them to make it difficult for them to stay.

In 2013, CUP collaborated with the Chinatown-based organization CAAAV and designers IntraCollaborative to create a Chinese and English fold-out poster that helps all tenants, including rent stabilized tenants, know and claim their rights. CAAAV recognized that, despite important laws on the books, many people couldn’t access their rights because they didn’t know about them, and as a result were being illegally evicted. The project has been developed into a Spanish-language edition and a subway poster campaign. It has been so successful that the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) approached CUP about updating and adapting it to reach a larger audience in 2017.

The poster provides information on how to challenge harassment and other illegal practices, and how to find tenant resources. The HPD version also includes content explaining new and updated policies to combat harassment and discrimination in housing.

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

We Are Public Housing

Making Policy Public

We Are Public Housing