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Flawed Findings Part I: How NYC's Approach to Measuring Residential Displacement Risk Fails Communities

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Jen Becker
Elena Conte
Keywords: 
Displacement
Public Policy
Environmental Review
citywide

Communities across the city are grappling with rising housing costs and justified fears that residents will no longer be able to afford to live in their neighborhoods. These concerns are particularly deep when displacement pressure stems from City-initiated projects, such as the rezonings...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Democratizing Planning
Date: 
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Document: 
flawed_findings_full_report_final.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

Affordable and Market Rate Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs

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This documents offers a comprehensive list of energy efficiency programs offered for affordable and market rate housing.

Date: 
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Resource Upload: 
affordable_housing_energy_efficiency_retrofit_programs.pdf
Keywords: 
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
citywide
energy efficiency
Audience: 
Homeowners
Source: 
Pratt Center

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

Global Cities, Inequality, and the Public Realm

Keywords: 
sustainable community planning
citywide
land use

“Global Cities, Inequality and the Public Realm” – a new report by Joan Byron, Pratt Center’s Director of Policy – is the culmination of Ms. Byron’s Fellowship with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In light of the seemingly inexorable growth of...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Document: 
1375109966byron_globalcities_jul13_web_hires.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

Preserving Local Retail: Issues and Strategies

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Vicki Weiner
Keywords: 
citywide
land use
sustainable community planning
local retail
small businesses

Presentation for the APA Metro Chapter Zoning Committee

Research Type: 
Presentation
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Document: 
prattcenter-preserving_local_retail.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

Inclusionary Zoning

Intro Paragraph: 
During his first term in office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced expansive plans to rezone more than twenty New York City communities – including the Far West Side of Manhattan, Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Long Island City, and parts of the South Bronx. As originally proposed, the plans were poised to generate more than 50,000 new units of housing, almost all of them for rent or sale at market rates.
Keywords: 
affordable housing
citywide
zoning
sustainable community planning
Pratt Center co-led a coalition that successfully advocated for new affordable housing through inclusionary zoning.
Body: 

Pratt Center joined with community groups, advocacy and religious organizations to successfully advocate for the rezonings to generate badly needed new affordable housing for low, moderate, and middle-income New Yorkers, with the help of inclusionary zoning. ...

Project Status: 
Archived
Location: 
City-Wide
Status: 
Completed in 2016

Reforming NYC's 421-a Property Tax Exemption Program

Intro Paragraph: 
Pratt Center has played a pivotal role in reforming the 421-a tax abatement, available to developers in certain zones of New York City who sponsor the creation of affordable housing, to expand the program's reach beyond central Manhattan.
Keywords: 
affordable housing
citywide
sustainable community planning
Pratt Center played a pivotal role in reforming the 421-a tax abatement to sponsor the creation of affordable housing beyond central Manhattan.
Body: 

Former director Brad Lander served on a mayoral task force evaluating options for reform of the program, which cost New York City $400 million in 2006 even while many developers receiving the benefit were not obligated to produce affordable housing in exchange.

As a result of a...

Project Status: 
Archived
Location: 
City-Wide

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