PEU 101
SPT: Outreach Edition
What's the Benefit?
NYC & Everything Else
Who Ya Gonna Call?
100

These two units were a part of PEU until recently. 

What is HSU and GetCovered?

100

Name the tool that PEU SPT uses to collect and track data.

What is SmartVan?

100

This food assistance program is commonly known by its four-letter acronym.

What is SNAP?

100

This NYC landmark was originally a gift from France to the United States.

What is the Statue of Liberty?

100

This three-digit number connects New Yorkers to non-emergency City services.

What is 311?

200

This PEU unit provides free information about tenant rights and connects renters to housing resources.

What is the Tenant Support Unit?

200

This is what you mark when you are at a door with a broken doorbell or cannot access the front door.

What is Inaccessible?

200

This NYC program offers a 50% discount on eligible public transit fares to qualifying New Yorkers.

What is Fair Fares NYC?

200

This NYC street is famous for its theaters and is often called the heart of American musical theater.

What is Broadway?

200

This NYC agency administers SNAP and Cash Assistance.

What is the Human Resources Administration (HRA)?

300

PEU's Tenant Helpline was launched in this month and year.

What is April 2020?

300

Name the person who was the last to join SPT.

Who is Kathy?

300

This rental assistance program helps eligible households who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability pay rent.

What is CityFHEPS?

300

Born Christopher Wallace, this legendary rapper was raised in Brooklyn.

Who is The Notorious B.I.G.?

300

This agency is the primary owner and manager of New York City's traditional public housing developments.

What is NYCHA?

400

During the pandemic, PEU helped older adults transition from this temporary meal delivery program to other resources.

What are Recovery Meals?

400

This group organizes PEU-wide projects and events. 

Who is SPT Ops?

400

This NYC program provides eligible homeowners age 65 or older with a property tax exemption.

What is SCHE (Senior Citizen Homeowners' Exemption)?

400

Before it was called New York, the city was known by this Dutch name.

What is New Amsterdam?

400

This City agency handles public trash collection and street cleaning.

What is the Department of Sanitation (DSNY)?

500

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?

500

This is the Special Project Outreach Team's first official Day of Action.

What is the Rat Academy? 

500

This New York law requires covered internet providers to offer qualifying low-income households discounted home internet service.

What is the Affordable Broadband Act?

500

NYC's first underground subway opened to passengers in this year.

What is 1904?

500

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)?