About Us

Pratt Institute

Our unique position as a department of Pratt Institute affords us the opportunity to work with professionals in urban and sustainability planning, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, art and design, and information and library science.

In turn, Pratt Center provides a valuable bridge for students between theory and practice, a link that fortifies our capacity to achieve our goals.

We train emerging planning professionals and strengthen our work through a close relationship with Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. Our student worker, fellowship, internship, and studio opportunities engage students from a variety of degree programs at Pratt while deepening our capacity to achieve our goals.

BASE Coalition

The BASE (Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone) campaign is a coalition of community organizations, advocates, tenants, homeowners, and community members who are organizing working-class neighborhoods and communities of color to increase the number of legally-recognized, affordable, and safe basement apartments in New York City.

Housing Justice for All

Housing Justice for All is a statewide movement of tenants and homeless New Yorkers united in fighting for housing as a human right. HJ4A believes that in the richest state in the richest country in the world we can eliminate evictions and end homelessness; and fights for tenant-and-homeless centered policy changes at the local, state, and federal level that advance that vision.

Coalition for Affordable Homes

A coalition advocating for expanded opportunities and funding for affordable homeownership and strategic investment in community land trusts to keep neighborhoods affordable for the long term and curb speculation that displaces middle- and working-class families.

Climate Works for All

A coalition of environmental justice advocates, community groups, and Labor unions joining together to fight climate change & income inequality in NYC.

Racial Impact Study Coalition

The Racial Impact Study Coalition is a coalition of neighborhood, community-based, and planning groups working to ensure that the City of New York meaningfully considers racial impacts in making major land use decisions. Collectively, we represent all five boroughs, most of the communities that have been impacted by City-initiated rezonings in recent years, and a wide spectrum of New York residents. We share a commitment to protecting our communities from racialized displacement and expanding permanently affordable housing to all neighborhoods.

Industrial Jobs Coalition

The Industrial Jobs Coalition is a citywide alliance of community groups, policy advocates, and service providers fighting to protect, preserve and expand manufacturing as a sector in NYC.

NYC Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI)

The NYC Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI) is an alliance of social justice and affordable housing organizations working to advance Community Land Trusts (CLTs) to address root causes of homelessness and displacement. NYCCLI members include emerging and established CLTs and other grassroots and citywide groups organizing for deeply- and permanently-affordable housing, commercial and community spaces, and other neighborhood-led development.

NYCCLI members conduct community education, organizing, capacity-building training, applied research, policy advocacy, and more to expand CLTs and non-speculative housing in New York City.