NYC affordable housing built disproportionately in communities of color, report finds
A new report shows wide disparities in the amount of affordable housing built in different New York City Council districts — with more going up in predominantly lower-income Black and Latino neighborhoods.from the advocacy organization New York Housing Conference found that the city produced 14,227 units of affordable housing last year, which was the highest yearly number in recent decades.
“We thought it was important to start tracking who's saying yes to housing and who's saying no,” said Fee. “It's very clear that some neighborhoods are doing a lot and others have really been left off the hook for years of producing any affordable housing. And it's no surprise that the disparities in affordable housing production also track with pretty big differences in income and race by district.
Additionally, the least-productive districts built less than 10 affordable units each last year, according to the New York Housing Conference. Some of those districts were in high-density areas with little available land, such as Manhattan’s core, while others were in low-density areas, including in Staten Island, Northern and Central Queens and Southern Brooklyn.in the Bronx, had the top-producing district citywide.
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