Mapping Gentrification Inward Novel York

Earlier this twelvemonth the NYU Furman Center released a study into Gentrification inwards New York City (PDF). The study examines how increasing rents as well as stagnating incomes convey contributed to the gentrification of nearly two-thirds of the city's previously low-income neighborhoods.

The effect of this gentrification of New York is that many residents are paying to a greater extent than inwards housing than they tin easily afford. The Association for Neighborhoods as well as Housing Development has decided to assistance heighten awareness of "where residential tenants may survive facing pregnant displacement pressures as well as where affordable apartments are close threatened across New York City".

The association's Displacement Project Alert Map provides a edifice yesteryear edifice assessment of where residential tenants may survive facing pregnant displacement pressures. Individual residential buildings are color coded on the map to demo the displacement run a peril score for residents living there.

The DAP map provides a disclose of displacement run a peril score scores for New York residential buildings. These run a peril scores are based on the loss of rent regulated units, the book of Department of Buildings travel permits as well as the score of belongings sales tax. The map besides provides a combined score for each edifice based on these multiple combined risks of displacement.