{"id":1798,"date":"2024-04-30T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2024-04-30T23:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:36:46","slug":"nycs-data-shows-city-of-yes-fails-in-helping-homeless-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/nycs-data-shows-city-of-yes-fails-in-helping-homeless-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Data Shows: City of Yes Fails in Helping Homeless Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">City&#8217;s Data Shows and the City agrees<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0&#8220;City of Yes&#8221; Will Not Help Housing Crisis?<\/h3>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.mlcdn.com%2Faccount_image%2F503251%2FoICVjzG1Da1l13WgvO9QmMayLOiDfOJd0rdcD72M.jpg&amp;t=1714532571&amp;ymreqid=c023c937-f905-b698-1cf8-52066f013f00&amp;sig=9Og54frifQyNNBelgFEeCg--~D\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" border=\"0\" class=\"yiv2479131143img aligncenter\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<table width=\"640\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" align=\"center\" class=\"yiv2479131143container yiv2479131143ml-18 yiv2479131143ml-card-border\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"yiv2479131143row\">Mayor Adams made a big announcement about <span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/hpd\/downloads\/pdfs\/about\/2023-nychvs-selected-initial-findings.pdf\">HPD\u2019s Vacancy Survey,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0justified his City of Yes &#8220;COY&#8221; Housing Text Amendments. \u00a0According to him (along with the Real Estate Industry)\u00a0NYC\u2019s vacancy rate is less than 1 %\u00a0\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>housing crisis is simply a matter of &#8220;supply and demand&#8221;, <\/strong>with the need for &#8220;a little bit&#8221;\u00a0more housing everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams specifically focused on allowing <strong>increase building heights in every community if the developer focused on the creation of \u201caffordable\u201d housing,<\/strong> that would be embedded in the law, just like the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, that was created in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In response, MTOPP has decided to <strong>demystify the HPD\u2019s results to show that COY will not address the Housing Crisis &#8211; a position that the Department of City Planning has agreed with!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Watch and Listen to\u00a0This Discussion on Video<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vAzKl_dLUT4\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><strong><span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vAzKl_dLUT4\">Just click on this link<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.mlcdn.com%2Faccount_image%2F503251%2FYfHCQCKkyF15fxlSu2gkfooXZK0fcfbC4svNrUGT.jpg&amp;t=1714532571&amp;ymreqid=c023c937-f905-b698-1cf8-52066f013f00&amp;sig=1RDgs8JjoTeiz0SX0_iZ.g--~D\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" border=\"0\" class=\"yiv2479131143img aligncenter\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>*<span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/hpd\/downloads\/pdfs\/about\/2023-nychvs-selected-initial-findings.pdf\">HPD&#8217;s Vacancy Survey<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><strong><u>Vacancy Rate<\/u><\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Rents below $1,000 a month had a .39% vacancy rate<\/li>\n<li>Rents between $1,100 to $1,649 had a 0.91% vacancy rate<\/li>\n<li>Rents of $2,400 or more had a 3.39% vacancy rate<\/li>\n<li>Only 6% of the Renters that earn less than $25,000 have apartments that are available to them.<\/li>\n<li>Apartments that are $1,500 or less monthly are within reach of the middle-income household. (pg. 25)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Summary <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>These findings show the need to <span>create housing for people who make <strong>less than $25,000<\/strong> a year, and apartments that go for less than <strong>$1,500 a month.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>*New York City Housing Preservation Department<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>Vacant Apartments<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Almost 200,000 apartments are vacant in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>70,000 vacant apartments available for rent.<\/p>\n<p>123,000 vacant but not available, (breakdown below):<\/p>\n<p>52,000 vacant but no available due to construction&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for Refrigerator 22%,<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for New Stove 26%,<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for new Countertops, 21%, and<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for New Kitchen 22%<\/p>\n<p>60,000 used for occasional use.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span>Almost <\/span><strong><span>200,000 apartments vacant,<\/span> with <\/strong>over 52,000 waiting for some minor equipment. Are stoves and refrigerators scarce in NYC or is this just warehousing, to create a crisis?<\/p>\n<p>Why would a property owner let over <strong>70,000 units sit vacant, when it is clear that this is a landlords\u2019 market? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Could this be a planned strategy on the part of the real estate industry in our city, especially in light of the fact that the <strong>that a large amount of apartments that are non-rent burden are \u201crent stabilized\u201d, with\u00a090% of them being owned by big Corporations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>There is a need for legislation that would force landlords to rent those apartments instead of letting them just sit vacant.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Housing Turnover Rate Graph<\/strong><\/h5>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/hpd\/downloads\/pdfs\/about\/2023-nychvs-selected-initial-findings.pdf\">Obtained from HPD&#8217;s Vacancy Survey<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"30\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.mlcdn.com%2Faccount_image%2F503251%2F6k0EgNOEHygbEUhQNhB3Dyyi7ClsuoFIBbOkE1sr.png&amp;t=1714532571&amp;ymreqid=c023c937-f905-b698-1cf8-52066f013f00&amp;sig=nBfG9BHWTv6UvHxIIfMGIQ--~D\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" border=\"0\" class=\"yiv2479131143img\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"30\">\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><u>Housing Turnover Rates<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Brooklyn and Manhattan\u00a0Turnover Rates \u201cTR\u201d are the highest in NYC\u00a0at 32\/33%.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island\u2019s TR is the lowest at 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Rents that are less than $1,100 have the lowest TR at 11%.<\/p>\n<p>Rents that are $2,400 have the highest TR at 42%<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It is a known fact that <strong>communities of color that have been gentrified have seen the highest TR with new people coming and going<\/strong>. Each time a tenant leaves the landlord gets a chance to increase the rents, thus incentivizing landlords to choose tenants that are more transient.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stability of residents means a lot to a community;<\/strong>\u00a0creating social relationships, empowering residents to work for a better community, gaining more political power, ensuring services are maintained etc\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span>Thus, the <strong>target population of housing should go to renters paying less than $1,100 for an apartment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.mlcdn.com%2Faccount_image%2F503251%2F7OoVSGZoFkYMZF7FeWyvBrn6SUpenc7Hws8c6crD.jpg&amp;t=1714532571&amp;ymreqid=c023c937-f905-b698-1cf8-52066f013f00&amp;sig=8O_bFRVJInemqmiGezMBBQ--~D\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" border=\"0\" class=\"yiv2479131143img aligncenter\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<table width=\"640\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" align=\"center\" class=\"yiv2479131143container yiv2479131143ml-38 yiv2479131143ml-card-border\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\" class=\"yiv2479131143ml-card-border yiv2479131143container\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"yiv2479131143row\">\n<h4><strong><u>Rent Burden<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Renters who earn less than $70,000 pay over 50% of their income to rent and are considered <strong>severe rent burden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renters who earn less than $25,000 (85% were <strong>severe rent burden<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Renters between $50,000 up to $99,999 (10% were rent burden)<\/p>\n<p>Renters above $100,000 (8% rent burden) ( pg. 58-61)<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There is\u00a0a need to create housing for <span><strong>people who make less than $70,000 a year, with a special emphasis on households that make less than $25,000 a year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Point of Information:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/la.myneighborhooddata.org\/2021\/06\/rent-burden\/#:~:text=Rent%20Burden%3A%20The%20percentage%20of,income%20on%20rent%20and%20utilities\">Rent Burden<\/a><\/span> is defined as paying more than 30% but less than 50% of the monthly\u00a0income.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/la.myneighborhooddata.org\/2021\/06\/rent-burden\/#:~:text=Rent%20Burden%3A%20The%20percentage%20of,income%20on%20rent%20and%20utilities\">Severe Rent Burden<\/a><\/span> is defined as paying more than 50% of the monthly\u00a0income. (The most at risk for homelessness)<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>City of Yes Will\u00a0Not\u00a0Cure\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>Our Housing Crisis!<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><strong>COY Affordable Targets<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Now that we have the <strong>statistical data given by the City<\/strong>, let&#8217;s look at COY&#8217;s current <strong>proposed target population<\/strong> to justify the <strong>increase in heights in every neighborhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, with <em><u>nothing in writing<\/u><\/em>, the Department of City Planning \u201cDCP\u201d has been speaking about the<strong> \u201c<em>possibility<\/em>\u201d of 80% of AMI or less as the target for &#8220;affordable&#8221; housing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They keep saying <em>or less<\/em>, but don\u2019t be fooled by that comment because developers never choose the \u201cor less\u201d, unless they are forced into it via a community benefits agreement (which are not enforceable and mostly ignored) or some special program that demands it. In some other\u00a0cases the &#8220;or less&#8221; produces so few apartments that\u00a0property owners leave them\u00a0empty due to the lack of\u00a0occupancy enforcement.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>What is the Federal 80% AMI<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The AMI is the Average Median Income of a particular geographical area, which increases every year. The geographical area (chosen by the Federal government), for <strong>NYC is all of the five boroughs along with Long Island and Upper Westchester.<\/strong> The inclusion of Long Island and Westchester has increased the AMI substantially.<\/p>\n<h5><strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/hpd\/services-and-information\/area-median-income.page\"><span>HPD\u2019s AMI Chart<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>(Click the\u00a0above title to access the\u00a0full AMI\u00a0chart)<\/p>\n<h5>80% of AMI for Each Housing Type<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>1 person $79,120 rent: $2,537<\/li>\n<li>2 people $90,000 rent: $3,000<\/li>\n<li>3 people $101,680 rent: $3,390<\/li>\n<li>4 people $112,960 rent: $3,766<\/li>\n<li>5 people $122,000 rent: $4,066<\/li>\n<li>6 people $131,040 rent: $4,368<\/li>\n<li>7 people $140,080 rent: $4,670<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rental amount is determined by 30% of the income, which would be a non-rent burden figure.<\/p>\n<table width=\"640\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" align=\"center\" class=\"yiv2479131143container yiv2479131143ml-42 yiv2479131143ml-card-border\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"yiv2479131143row\">\n<h4><strong>The City Agrees: COY Will Not Help With Housing Crisis!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>According to the AMI chart and HPD&#8217;s Survey Data,\u00a0<strong><span>not one apartment being planned under the \u201caffordable\u201d category of the COY Housing Text Amendments, would target housing development that\u00a0would actually help to diminish the housing crisis that we are in or increase the vacancy rate.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead the &#8220;Affordable&#8221; category\u00a0would target the least burden, the most transient, whose target apartments are close to 4% vacancy rate and not below 1% and who have access to most of the current available apartments on the market!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This explains why there are countless \u201caffordable\u201d units being created by rezonings (increase in building heights) but not a dent has been made in solving our housing crisis<\/strong>. (When the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing proposal was created in 2017, low income rental apartments were above 1%, now it is at .39%)<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAffordable\u201d apartments do not target the average New Yorker and definitely didn&#8217;t and still does not\u00a0provide for the <strong>most severe rent\u00a0burden population that is one step away from being homeless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><u>The City Agrees With Us!<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6><strong><\/strong>\u201cWe recognize that 80 percent AMI doesn\u2019t meet the needs of New Yorkers who need affordable housing, especially as AMIs have risen dramatically in recent years,\u201d Winnie Shen, a housing planner with DCP, said at the session.&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/2024\/02\/02\/mayors-proposed-affordable-housing-bonus-would-target-range-of-incomes-officials-say\/\">https:\/\/citylimits.org\/2024\/02\/02\/mayors-proposed-affordable&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yiv2479131143ml-rte-link-wrapper\"><\/span>\u00a0The only thing the \u201caffordable\u201d categories would do is <strong>give political cover for Mayor Eric Adams and other politicians,\u00a0to push for a massive upzoning, <\/strong>(increase in heights all over NYC) for the\u00a0real estate industry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"20\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City&#8217;s Data Shows and the City agrees \u00a0&#8220;City of Yes&#8221; Will Not Help Housing Crisis? Mayor Adams made a big announcement about HPD\u2019s Vacancy Survey,\u00a0to\u00a0justified his City of Yes &#8220;COY&#8221; Housing Text Amendments. \u00a0According to him (along with the Real Estate Industry)\u00a0NYC\u2019s vacancy rate is less than 1 %\u00a0\u00a0and the\u00a0housing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-yes-text-amendments","category-updates","category-knowledge-is-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}