Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Break it Down!

Making Policy Public

Break it Down!

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

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

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!