Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

Free For All?

City Studies

Free For All?

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Sign Up!

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Print Language Rights are Civil Rights!

If you don’t speak English in NYC and you’re trying to access government services, NYC and NY State’s innovative language access laws guarantee you the right to the assistance of an interpreter. But many immigrant communities aren’t aware of this right and routinely lose access to critical services because they don’t speak English. In 2012, CUP worked with designer Melissa Gorman and the Language Access Project at Legal Services-NYC to create Language Rights Are Civil Rights!, a wallet-size foldout on language access that you can also use to ask for an interpreter.

This issue of Public Access Design is fully translated into Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Russian, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Urdu, Korean, Polish, and French – the 10 most commonly spoken languages of the city’s limited English proficient population. 

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Step Right Up

City Studies

Step Right Up

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court