affordability
Housing Update: Homelessness Record, Rent Regs Debate Intensifies
Harry DiPrinzio |
It was a busy week for news related to New York City housing. Here’s a roundup of what you might have missed.
It was a busy week for news related to New York City housing. Here’s a roundup of what you might have missed.
Today, New York City doesn’t have enough affordable senior housing to meet current demand. By the year 2030, the city’s over-65 population will be 1.35 million, 14.8 percent of its total.By the year 2030, the city’s over-65 population will be 1.35 million, 14.8 percent of its total.
Bushwick residents, elected officials and other stakeholders say they expect the city’s neighborhood rezoning plan—due out Tuesday—to differ from a community-generated vision released last year on the issues of density, the preservation of industrial space and affordability levels for housing.
A new tenant protection czar, a push for comprehensive planning, news from the Bay Street and Bushwick rezoning discussions, ideas for closing the housing-wealth gap and more.
‘The de Blasio administration has had the tools at its disposal to produce more deeply affordable housing for New York City’s poorer residents, who are disproportionately black and Latino.’
Are rent regulated apartments occupied primarily by the wealthy? Do rent regulated tenants hoard their homes?
Stringer’s plan would shift the remaining 85,000 units of new construction under the mayor’s plan to serve very low-income and extremely low-income families.
A video conversation with a top tenant organizer and a leading affordable-housing advocate about what 2019 has in store for New York renters and neighborhoods.
Even taking Section 8 and other assistance programs into account, it’s still the poorest New Yorkers that struggle the most with housing costs.
‘Good design and cost-cutting seem to be contradictory goals in part because the conversation about the nation’s housing scarcity problem leaves little room for nuance.’