CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: New York’s Climate Crisis is a Housing Crisis
Deborah Helaine Morris, Thaddeus Pawlowski and Hugo Sarmiento |
“Hurricane Sandy damaged 10 percent of the city’s housing. In a city with a vacancy rate of 4.5 percent, even a temporary loss of the housing supply isn’t just a problem for those directly displaced: it tightens the market for everyone, making it harder and more expensive to find housing.”