Adi Talwar
A street vendor on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx on a cold February Monday afternoon.
City agencies, including the NYPD, issued 570 tickets to street vendors during the first three months of 2022, exceeding the number of fines during the same period in 2019: 366. Zip codes with a large immigrant population continue to be one of the most inspected areas both in 2021 and during 2022’s first trimester.
ANHD’s 2022 Housing Risk Chart highlights the compounding pressures, and risks, to affordable housing in dozens of neighborhoods. Indicators of speculation, gentrification, and displacement pressure are distributed throughout the city and show the necessity of tenant and homeowner counseling and support programs that defend affordability in every neighborhood.
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