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affordable housing

Making Room for Housing and Jobs

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Jen Becker
Keywords: 
Housing
affordable housing
Jobs
Industrial

 

Making Room for Housing and Jobs examines how rezoning industrial areas to provide space for housing may actually undermine housing affordability if high-wage industrial jobs are replaced with low-wage jobs in retailing and neighborhood services. To avoid pitting housing...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Growing a More Equitable Economy
Date: 
Monday, May 4, 2015
Document: 
making_room_for_housing_and_jobs_may_5_2015.pdf

A Luxury Housing Subsidy New Yorkers Can't Afford

Keywords: 
affordable housing
citywide
sustainable community planning

The legislature is poised to renew a tax break to New York's real estate industry that shortchanges affordable housing.

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, June 6, 2011
Document: 
luxury_housing_subsidy_new_yorkers_cant_afford_report.pdf

New York City's Housing Crisis: Private Development and Public Need

Keywords: 
affordable housing
land use
citywide

In commemoration of Pratt Center’s 50th anniversary, we’re proud to present our 1983 report with the Center for Metropolitan Action at Queens College, “New York City’s...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, December 12, 1983
Document: 
housing_crisis_and_housing_trust_fund_1983.pdf

421-a Geographic Exclusion Area (GEA) Existing Boundaries and Proposed Additions Overlaid With NY State Assembly Districts

Keywords: 
affordable housing
citywide
sustainable community planning

New York City’s 421-a property tax exemption program was created in the 1970s, when the city was on hard times, to encourage developers to build new housing.

Research Type: 
Maps
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Map: 
421-a Geographic Exclusion Area (GEA) Existing Boundaries and Proposed Additions Overlaid With NY State Assembly Districts

Downtown Brooklyn’s Detour: The Unanticipated Impacts of Rezoning and Development on Residents and Businesses

Keywords: 
sustainable community planning
affordable housing
zoning
Brooklyn

The stated goal of the 2004 Downtown Brooklyn Plan was to stimulate the redevelopment of the area in order to encourage its continued transformation into New York City’s third central business district.

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Document: 
prattcenter-downtown_brooklyns_detour.pdf

Sunset Park Voices in the Rezoning Process

Keywords: 
Brooklyn
sustainable community planning
zoning
land use
affordable housing

As Sunset Park awaits the results of a zoning study being conducted by the NYC  Department of City Planning, City Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez and Brooklyn Community Board 7 co-sponsored one community education workshop and two community conversations about development issues and...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, December 17, 2007
Document: 
prattcenter-sunset_park_rezoning.pdf

Platform for Responsible Redevelopment of the Gowanus Canal

Keywords: 
Brooklyn
sustainable community planning
affordable housing
land use
zoning
urban manufacturing
local manufacturing

We believe that the rezoning and development of the Gowanus Canal area provides a great opportunity for our community.

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, October 15, 2007
Document: 
prattcenter-gowanus_summit-principles_for_responsible_development_0.pdf

Community Resiliency Planning Hubs

Intro Paragraph: 
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Pratt Center envisions the creation of community resiliency planning hubs to streamline government resources and to foster a participatory rebuilding process. Toward this end, we recently worked with a number of our partners to launch the Sandy Design Help Desk in Rockaway.
Keywords: 
sustainable community planning
affordable housing
citywide
climate resiliency
Community-based, post-Sandy planning hubs can serve as a one-stop-shop for government, communities and businesses to work toward resiliency.
Body: 

For one week in October 2013, the Help Desk provided free expert design and technical consultation to residents and property owners still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. Volunteer architects and designers gave individual guidance on building code, zoning and design questions. We...

Project Partners: 
American Institute of Architects New York Chapter
Margert Community Corporation
Enterprise Community Partners
Project Status: 
Archived
Location: 
Queens

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