Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

City Studies

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Print Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Across New York State, renters and homeowners struggle to pay their bills. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial hardship for many New Yorkers, who have to make difficult choices between paying for basic needs like rent and health care and paying utility bills. To partially address this New York State created temporary laws to protect access to water during the public health emergency. But many New Yorkers don’t know these laws exist and living without water or living with the threat of having their water shut-off.

To protect access to water for low-income New Yorkers during and after the pandemic, the Public Utility Law Project (PULP), Public Access Design Fellow, Arthur Kim, and CUPcollaborated on Trouble With Your Water Bill? 

The guide explains the different types of water companies, the different rights people have depending on their water company, and the practical steps New Yorkers can take to keep their water on or correct a wrongful shut-off. With this information, New Yorkers. With this information, New Yorkers can claim their rights to water access now and in the future.

PULP will launch Trouble With Your Water Bill? during a webinar at the Rural Housing Coalition of New York’s annual conference. This guide will be distributed through PULP’s technical assistance programs and through legal services organizations, housing rights advocates, and elected officials.

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Technical Assistance

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights