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Tackling New York City’s Housing Crisis is a ‘Shared Responsibility’

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 In some of these low-density neighborhoods, no new affordable housing has been permitted since 2015. ” Speaker Adams also emphasized the importance of improving the city’s community engagement practices to ensure these policies are effective.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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