Due to the growing number of students, Pratt understandably no longer offers the townhouses to staff/faculty members. In addition to this, however, they are kicking out the staff/faculty members who currently live in those houses and are forcing them to move out by January 31st, giving them little to no time to dispute the issue. This needs to be stopped. Many of these staff/faculty members have been calling these townhouses “home” for years, and now Pratt is trying to uproot them and their families to make marginally more space for student housing. This would not only ruin the historic identities of the houses, but also the lives of those living in them. Due to the ever-increasing rents in the neighborhood, many of these families would be pushed out of the area and potentially out of New York altogether. Please sign this petition to urge the administration to reconsider the impact they are making on the lives of their employees and their families.

Disclaimer: This petition is purely the work of concerned alumni and is not in any way connected to the staff/faculty in question.