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Council Member Sanchez outlines the severity of New York City's housing crisis
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Council Member Sanchez presents a stark picture of the housing crisis in New York City, emphasizing its widespread impact on residents. She highlights the urgent need for more housing, particularly low-cost options.
- Over half of New Yorkers are rent-burdened
- Nearly 100,000 people are sleeping in shelters nightly
- Only a few neighborhoods have shouldered the burden of building new housing
Pierina Sanchez
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Our housing crisis is well documented.
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More than half of New Yorkers are rent burdened.
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200,000 black residents have left the city over the past decade.
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Low and middle income New Yorkers of all ages and races are priced out of their communities.
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Nearly 100,000 of our neighbors are sleeping in shelters every night.
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The need for more housing and low cost housing above all is critical.
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Yet despite that need, just a handful of neighborhoods have carried the burden of building housing in our city.
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Over the last decade, 10 council districts have built 50,000 units of affordable housing, more than the other 41 districts combined.
