What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Policy Public

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

The Fresh Producers

Urban Investigations

The Fresh Producers

Print Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive? - Simplified Chinese

Rent stabilization is a law that makes housing more affordable to thousands of New Yorkers by limiting how often and how much rent can go up. But tenants don’t always know their rights, and are sometimes afraid to demand them. Landlords eager to cash in on increasing property values often pressure tenants to move out, and harass them to make it difficult for them to stay.

In 2013, CUP collaborated with the Chinatown-based organization CAAAV and designers IntraCollaborative to create a Chinese and English fold-out poster that helps all tenants, including rent stabilized tenants, know and claim their rights. CAAAV recognized that, despite important laws on the books, many people couldn’t access their rights because they didn’t know about them, and as a result were being illegally evicted. The project has been developed into a Spanish-language edition and a subway poster campaign. It has been so successful that the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) approached CUP about updating and adapting it to reach a larger audience in 2017.

The poster provides information on how to challenge harassment and other illegal practices, and how to find tenant resources. The HPD version also includes content explaining new and updated policies to combat harassment and discrimination in housing.

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

New School on the Block

City Studies

New School on the Block

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Public Access Design

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Happy Meals?

City Studies

Happy Meals?