Yours To Keep

  • Made By CUP With:
  • Community Partners
  • Tags:
  • Housing

This guide helps homeowners in NYC understand their legal rights and options to keep their homes and prevent foreclosure.

While the peak of the foreclosure crisis has passed, thousands of New York City homeowners are still at risk of losing their homes. With the rising cost of living, unemployment rates, consumer debt, and predatory practices in the mortgage lending industry, low- and middle-income homeowners — often concentrated in communities of color — are especially vulnerable.

Foreclosure is a complex process filled with filing deadlines, court dates, and confusing interactions with mortgage servicers. But what is a foreclosure? And what does a homeowner need to know to keep their home?

The Legal Aid Society collaborated with CUP and design studio Work By All to create Yours to Keep, a bilingual, foldout poster in English and Spanish. By introducing players involved and breaking down key steps in the foreclosure process, the poster helps homeowners in NYC understand their legal rights and options to keep their homes.

With this information, New Yorkers most at risk of losing their homes will be able to understand their options and prevent foreclosure. The Legal Aid Society is distributing the guide at its weekly Foreclosure Prevention Clinics in the Bronx and Queens — the boroughs with the highest foreclosure rates in the city.

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Project Collaborators

Community Partner

The Legal Aid Society - Foreclosure Prevention Unit
Oda Friedheim
Asher Kaplan
Jenny Braun-Friedman
Mary Bianco

Designers

Work by All


Special Thanks

Sherry Gill, Yosef Ishak, Malloree Johnson, Barbara Khan, Christine Gaspar, Siyona Ravi, Emilio Vides-Curnen, James Boyd

Product Details

8″ × 11″ color pamphlet; unfolds to 22″ × 32″ poster

Funding Support

Support for this project was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.