Yours to Keep

Making Policy Public

Yours to Keep

Is Justice For All?

City Studies

Is Justice For All?

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Public Access Design

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Vendor Power!

Making Policy Public

Vendor Power!

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

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.

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

Public Access Design

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

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

The Deciders

City Studies

The Deciders

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court

Bottled Up

City Studies

Bottled Up

Work Forced

Public Access Design

Work Forced

Puff Puff Passed

Urban Investigations

Puff Puff Passed

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!