Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

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.

Swipe Out

Urban Investigations

Swipe Out

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

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Public Access Design

¡No me han pagado!

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Urban Investigations

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Policy Public

Welcome to Health Care!

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?