Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Policy Public

Welcome to Health Care!

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.

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Draw the line!

Technical Assistance

Draw the line!

New School on the Block

City Studies

New School on the Block

Bodega Down Bronx

Urban Investigations

Bodega Down Bronx

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

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

Urban Investigations

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

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights