Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Swept Up

Urban Investigations

Swept Up

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

Public Access Design

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Print Is There A Pattern?

New York City must, by court order, provide temporary shelter to every person who asks. Currently, NYC spends about $1.8 billion a year on shelters, apartments, hotel rooms, and programs.

What is homelessness? How does the shelter system work? How does homelessness impact the City? What is the City’s responsibility?

In the spring of 2019, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Gabriella Coll and public high school students at Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy (KAPPA) International High School in the Bronx to dig deep into the issue of homelessness. To investigate, students wove textiles to depict the cycle of homelessness, surveyed community members, visited a shelter, and interviewed key stakeholders working on the issue. This booklet is a guide to what students learned about homelessness in NYC and their ideas for shaping a different future.

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Can You See My Screen?

Urban Investigations

Can You See My Screen?