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Pratt Center for Community Development Building a sustainable NYC from the ground up

For 60 years, Pratt Center has leveraged professional skills including participatory planning, community organizing, and public policy advocacy to support community-based organizations in their efforts to challenge systemic inequities and advance sustainable development.

Say hello to our 3 new Graduate Fellows! They will be working with us for the 2026-2027 school year.Alyse Dees, our Data...
10/06/2026

Say hello to our 3 new Graduate Fellows! They will be working with us for the 2026-2027 school year.

Alyse Dees, our Data and Policy Fellow, is currently in the Urban and Community Planning program. She will be working on essential research projects including Flipping Out and EnergyFit.

Jessica Ng, our Storytelling Fellow, is currently in the Urban Placemaking and Management program. Her work will be focusing on highlighting and uplifting the projects at Pratt Center through writing.

Sarena Yadav, our Graphic Design Fellow, is currently in the Communications Design program. You’ll be seeing her fun and dynamic graphics in both Made in NYC and Pratt Center’s work.

Welcome Fellows! We’re looking forward to seeing your unique skills and perspectives contribute to our work. 🐝

Pratt GCPE
Pratt Urban Placemaking & Management (UPM)
Pratt School of Design
Pratt Institute Graduate Communications Design
Pratt Urban and Community Planning

08/25/2026

If you listened to WNYC’s latest live conversation on housing affordability, you might’ve caught Pratt Center’s very own Sylvia Morse on the panel!

Listen to the full podcast at WNYC’s website or by streaming “NYC NOW” wherever you get your podcasts. Link in our bio!

Weren’t able to make it to one of our information sessions for the Community Planning & Research Accelerator? Check out ...
08/04/2026

Weren’t able to make it to one of our information sessions for the Community Planning & Research Accelerator?

Check out the recording of our office hour session online along with the slide deck presentation, and a FAQ based on the conversations we’ve had so far.

See all these resources and submit your application at prattcenter.net/cpra, by August 31 at 5:00 PM. 🗓️

Still have questions? Email [email protected].

🚨Our latest policy brief released today: “NYC’s Short-Term Rental Law Benefits Homeowners Over Investors.” In 2023, New ...
07/23/2026

🚨Our latest policy brief released today: “NYC’s Short-Term Rental Law Benefits Homeowners Over Investors.” 

In 2023, New York City implemented the Short-Term Rental Registration Law after years of grappling with widespread illegal use of housing for short-term vacation rentals facilitated by booking platforms like Airbnb.

As industry groups push to weaken the law in the name of homeowners, our latest policy brief finds that short-term rental regulations are actually benefiting homeowners over investors. (Swipe through and download the policy brief to see how!) 

This report was made in partnership with Neighbors Not Profits, a coalition of housing, labor, and community organizations that advocate for maintaining existing short-term rental laws and for housing affordability. 

And thank you to our collaborators from the coalition, including:
Hotel and Gaming Trades Council
Tenants PAC
Met Council On Housing
CUFFH
Housing Conservation Coordinators - HCC
Communities Resist

Full report at the link in our bio.

🚨Our latest policy brief released today: “NYC’s Short-Term Rental Law Benefits Homeowners Over Investors.” In 2023, New ...
07/23/2026

🚨Our latest policy brief released today: “NYC’s Short-Term Rental Law Benefits Homeowners Over Investors.” 

In 2023, New York City implemented the Short-Term Rental Registration Law after years of grappling with widespread illegal use of housing for short-term vacation rentals facilitated by booking platforms like Airbnb.

As industry groups push to weaken the law in the name of homeowners, our latest policy brief finds that short-term rental regulations are actually benefiting homeowners over investors. (Swipe through and download the policy brief to see how!) 

This report was made in partnership with Neighbors Not Profits, a coalition of housing, labor, and community organizations that advocate for maintaining existing short-term rental laws and for housing affordability. 

And thank you to our collaborators from the coalition, including:

Hotel and Gaming Trades Council
Tenants PAC
Met Council On Housing
CUFFH
Housing Conservation Coordinators - HCC
Communities Resist

Full report at the link in our bio.

Do you have questions about the Community Planning & Research Accelerator? Join one of our information sessions, downloa...
07/10/2026

Do you have questions about the Community Planning & Research Accelerator? Join one of our information sessions, download our program brief, and read more (and apply!) at prattcenter.net/cpra or head to the link in bio.

Applications now open! Pratt Center’s Community Planning & Research Accelerator (CPRA) will support up to four community...
07/01/2026

Applications now open!

Pratt Center’s Community Planning & Research Accelerator (CPRA) will support up to four community-based organizations working to advance social justice and community-led change. Selected organizations will receive:

— 15,000 in project funding
— 200 hours of community planning or research support from Pratt Center

Priority will be given to smaller organizations, groups with limited access to funding, organizations serving historically disinvested communities, and/or groups underrepresented in Pratt Center’s current partnerships, particularly in the Bronx and Staten Island. 

📅 Information Sessions:

July 16, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
July 22, 10:000 - 11:00 AM

Applications are due on August 31.

Learn more, register for an information session, and apply at the link in our bio.

Join us at Pratt Manhattan for an evening of conversation on archiving, protecting, and advocating for nightlife spaces!...
05/29/2026

Join us at Pratt Manhattan for an evening of conversation on archiving, protecting, and advocating for nightlife spaces!

Nightlife has long been more than entertainment. For Black, q***r, immigrant, and other marginalized New Yorkers, nightlife is infrastructure—a form of inclusive public space in the face of racialized zoning, policing, and gentrification.

This Used to Be a Club () is a data-driven reconstruction of club geographies that visualizes cultural displacement. It also celebrates how nightlife communities have persistently engaged in placemaking, culture, and joy.

This Used to Be a Club’s founder and Pratt Center’s Senior Planner, Tara Duvivier () will introduce new data on former nightlife spaces in Manhattan and lead a conversation with David Banks () and Greg Miller (), Executive Director at on how we can learn from the past to save the nightlife spaces of today. Food will be provided.

RSVP at the link in bio!

This event is supported by and .

The data is clear: home flipping is a predatory practice targeting vulnerable homeowners and tenants, while driving out ...
05/11/2026

The data is clear: home flipping is a predatory practice targeting vulnerable homeowners and tenants, while driving out majority BIPOC residents from some of the last affordable neighborhoods in NYC.

In late April, we released a policy brief with new data on home flipping. Since then, the research has helped inform and expand reporting that shines a spotlight on the issue—from latest investigation into LLCs and flipping’s impact on homeowners, to a segment on NY1.

Swipe to see the latest coverage, and read the full policy brief at the link in our bio.

Thank you again to our incredible research partners and supporters:








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