Housing shortage in New York By: Sae Xilong (23), John Chiang (12), Melson Chang (19), Gabriel Ng (5), Ian Tay (10),
The Situation
In … Rent 11% Income 2%
Government has 6 Billion Backlog in Capital Repairs
People Paying 50% or More of Income 6.7 Million In 10 years
Why is this caused?
Cosmopolitan City Migration is high Building regulations mean new homes are slower to materialize DemandSupply Overall costs will increase
Problems?
There are 200,000 people 50,000 vacancies That’s a 4:1 ratio!
100,000 families Housing Choice vouchers
More unhappiness $$$ More money spent on homes, less on other sectors (e.g. education, military) Social unrest
So what has been done?
My Micro NY decides to make The de Blasio* program aims to have… 120,000 80,000 *De Blasio is the surname of the mayor. Current and new houses to be subsidized Smaller!
Sources shelter shelter The one and only textbook
Thank you!!!