Safe Space?

City Studies

Safe Space?

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

Public Access Design

Rent, Rights, and Repairs

The Water Underground

Urban Investigations

The Water Underground

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. 

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?

Envisioning Development

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?

We Are Public Housing

Making Policy Public

We Are Public Housing

What Up With DAT?

Technical Assistance

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

We're Watching

Public Access Design

We're Watching

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up