PEU 101
These two units were a part of PEU until recently.
What is HSU and GetCovered?
Name the tool that PEU SPT uses to collect and track data.
What is SmartVan?
This food assistance program is commonly known by its four-letter acronym.
What is SNAP?
This NYC landmark was originally a gift from France to the United States.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This three-digit number connects New Yorkers to non-emergency City services.
What is 311?
This PEU unit provides free information about tenant rights and connects renters to housing resources.
What is the Tenant Support Unit?
This is what you mark when you are at a door with a broken doorbell or cannot access the front door.
What is Inaccessible?
This NYC program offers a 50% discount on eligible public transit fares to qualifying New Yorkers.
What is Fair Fares NYC?
This NYC street is famous for its theaters and is often called the heart of American musical theater.
What is Broadway?
This NYC agency administers SNAP and Cash Assistance.
What is the Human Resources Administration (HRA)?
PEU's Tenant Helpline was launched in this month and year.
What is April 2020?
Name the person who was the last to join SPT.
Who is Kathy?
This rental assistance program helps eligible households who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability pay rent.
What is CityFHEPS?
Born Christopher Wallace, this legendary rapper was raised in Brooklyn.
Who is The Notorious B.I.G.?
This agency is the primary owner and manager of New York City's traditional public housing developments.
What is NYCHA?
During the pandemic, PEU helped older adults transition from this temporary meal delivery program to other resources.
What are Recovery Meals?
This group organizes PEU-wide projects and events.
Who is SPT Ops?
This NYC program provides eligible homeowners age 65 or older with a property tax exemption.
What is SCHE (Senior Citizen Homeowners' Exemption)?
Before it was called New York, the city was known by this Dutch name.
What is New Amsterdam?
This City agency handles public trash collection and street cleaning.
What is the Department of Sanitation (DSNY)?
Rather than expecting New Yorkers to navigate City bureaucracy, PEU uses these four grassroots tactics to meet residents in these places.
What are their doors, phones, social media feeds, and communities?
This is the Special Project Outreach Team's first official Day of Action.
What is the Rat Academy?
This New York law requires covered internet providers to offer qualifying low-income households discounted home internet service.
What is the Affordable Broadband Act?
NYC's first underground subway opened to passengers in this year.
What is 1904?
This NYC agency enforces the City's Human Rights Law, including protections against discrimination in housing and employment.
What is the NYC Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)?