Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

Envisioning Development

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Print Swept Up

In April 2016, the NYPD raided two Eastchester housing complexes in the Bronx and arrested 120 people. Despite descriptions as the “largest gang takedown in New York City history,” over half the arrestees were never even charged as gang members. How did this all happen? Criminal Conspiracy Laws—originally used to bring down organized crime like the mafia—are being used by NYPD to police youth and charge them with “gang involvement”, simply because of who they know. For many low-income teens of color, basic activities like having friends in one’s neighborhood, are used to justify arrest at alarming rates.

What are criminal conspiracy laws? What’s the NYPD gang database? How do these laws and police practices impact local communities?

In the summer of 2019, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Ro Garrido and students from the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn to dig deep into criminal conspiracy laws and their impact on local community members, interview stakeholders working on the issue, and create art to show what they learned. The group teamed up with Designer Marcela Szwarc and created the booklet, Swept Up, to educate others and help them get involved in the issue.

Learn more about the project here!

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

The Internet is Serious Business

Urban Investigations

The Internet is Serious Business

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights