The Gentrification Of Novel York City
Last month ProPublica reported on the loss of rent stabilized apartments inward New York City together with the growing publish of tenants beingness evicted yesteryear landlords. The trial has been a dramatic decrease inward affordable housing together with increasing gentrification inward many of the city's neighborhoods.
Last twelvemonth the NYU Furman Center released a written report into Gentrification inward New York City (PDF). The written report examines how increasing rents together with stagnating incomes convey contributed to the gentrification of nearly two-thirds of the city's previously low-income neighborhoods.
The trial of this gentrification of New York is that many residents are paying to a greater extent than inward housing than they tin easily afford. The Association for Neighborhoods together with Housing Development is worried yesteryear the increasing loss of affordable housing together with has decided to aid heighten awareness of "where residential tenants may live on facing pregnant displacement pressures together with where affordable apartments are nigh threatened across New York City".
The association's Displacement Project Alert Map provides a edifice yesteryear edifice assessment of where residential tenants may live on facing pregnant displacement pressures. Individual residential buildings are color coded on the map to present the displacement adventure grade for residents living there.
The DAP map provides a publish of displacement adventure grade scores for New York residential buildings. These adventure scores are based on the loss of rent regulated units, the book of Department of Buildings operate permits together with the grade of holding sales tax. The map too provides a combined score for each edifice based on these multiple combined risks of displacement.
ProPublica's interactive map Tracking Evictions together with Rent Stabilization inward NYC shows the publish of eviction cases that were made inward New York City storey blocks betwixt Jan 2013 together with June 2015. There may non live on a straight correlation betwixt the publish of eviction orders inward New York together with the wishing of landlords to stimulate out rent stabilized tenants, nevertheless the ProPublica map for sure shows an incredible publish of eviction orders have been made against New York tenants inward recent years.
Clicking on the storey buildings colored on the ProPublica map reveals the publish of eviction orders placed on tenants (and the probable rent stabilization condition of the building's apartments). It is genuinely remarkable how many storey buildings inward New York convey had over 100 eviction orders served on tenants inward such a brusk infinite of time.