Gaining Ground Panel Discussion

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Sylvia Morse shares Pratt Center’s Gaining Ground report at a panel event in September 2023 co-hosted by New Economy Project. Organizers from 3 local community land trusts also presented about their work.

Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have emerged across New York City as a powerful tool to address the city’s affordability crisis and racialized displacement. But to reach scale and sustainability, CLTs require dedicated public land, funding, and planning.

Thanks to all who attended our panel discussion! We learned so much from our panelists from the importance of CLTs in building community wealth and power to their value as a model for participatory planning. We also celebrated:

  • Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards who have won the city’s RFP for a vacant Bronx detox center, allowing their community driven H.E.ARTS Center proposal to move forward!
  • After years of hard work and organizing, ReAL Edgemere CLT now controls 119 lots in Edgemere, Queens.

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Pictured left to right, Deyanira Del Río, New Economy Project, Debra Ack, East New York Community Land Trust, Alexis Foote, the ReAL Edgemere Community Land Trust, Mychal Johnson, South Bronx Unite & Mott-Haven Port Morris Community Land Stewards, Sylvia Morse, Pratt Center

Take Action to Support the Growing CLT Movement!
  • Tell your City Council Member to pass the Community Land Act
  • Have your organization endorse the campaign! Learn more at nyccli.org/CLA
  • Donate to East New York CLT to help bring a 21-unit building into community hands
  • Buy a ticket to East New York CLT's Autumn Soiree
  • Contact South Bronx Unite to support Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards as they transform a vacant city-owned building into a Health, Education and Arts Center

Date

12 Sep, 2023