Cultivating a culture of belonging,

because we all belong.

CUALA EIRÉ

CUALA NY

CUALA LA

Our Mission

Our programs celebrate land, community history and stories through a social justice lens, develop new resources and meaningful jobs, and preserve affordable housing for the generations to come.

Program(mes) and Projects

Jacob Riis Campaign to Protect Public Housing

Early in 2024 NYCHA launched a year-long campaign to encourage the residents of Jacob Riis Houses to vote for the controversial RAD PACT conversion process that would privatize their homes. Cuala Foundation produced the first annual Jacob Riis celebration with the creation and installation of a new sculpture by world renowned street artist (and former Riis resident) Al Diaz, produced a film about the day Lady Bird Johnson, Brooke Astor and Mayor Lindsey visited Riis Houses and declared it ‘the greatest public housing development in America’ and ran an educational campaign to inform residents about the risks of PACT as highlighted by Human Right Watch and a NY State Comptroller’s December 2024 Audit.

In what was a landmark vote in April 2025, Jacob Riis residents overwhelmingly rejected the PACT privatization process and the development will remain public.

Shared Struggles

Live on the Lower East Side

Join us Friday 16 March 7PM at 428 East 10th Street for a talk with author and activist John Bissett about his book It’s Not Where You Live, It’s How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate as part of our our ‘Shared Struggles’ series exploring the challenges faced by public housing residents in Ireland and New York City amid escalating levels of privatization, displacement and dispossession of public housing.