Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

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

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Lunchroom Digest

City Studies

Lunchroom Digest

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.

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

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

Urban Investigations

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

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

Social Security Risk Machine

Making Policy Public

Social Security Risk Machine

In the Streets!

Urban Investigations

In the Streets!

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

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