Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Print Is There A Pattern?

New York City must, by court order, provide temporary shelter to every person who asks. Currently, NYC spends about $1.8 billion a year on shelters, apartments, hotel rooms, and programs.

What is homelessness? How does the shelter system work? How does homelessness impact the City? What is the City’s responsibility?

In the spring of 2019, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Gabriella Coll and public high school students at Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy (KAPPA) International High School in the Bronx to dig deep into the issue of homelessness. To investigate, students wove textiles to depict the cycle of homelessness, surveyed community members, visited a shelter, and interviewed key stakeholders working on the issue. This booklet is a guide to what students learned about homelessness in NYC and their ideas for shaping a different future.

Is Suspension The Solution?

City Studies

Is Suspension The Solution?

Let's Hang Out

Urban Investigations

Let's Hang Out

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

Technical Assistance

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

Soak It Up!

City Studies

Soak It Up!

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

Envisioning Development

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?