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Affordable Housing in New York City

The Affordable Housing Study was prepared by the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute of Baruch College under assignment to the Public Advocate of the City of New York, Betsy Gotbaum and on behalf of the City Council. The Report consists of five documents which together enumerate descriptively the state of New York City’s affordable housing, historic problematics of housing support programs, policy considerations currently in play, and then provides recommendations as to how need can be met through innovative production, financing and incentive mechanisms.

Part One of the report exposes the gap between the demand for and supply of affordable housing in New York City. It presents the trends, dimension and basic reasons for the affordable housing crisis, and an inventory of programs now available to produce affordable housing.

Part Two presents the key elements and trade-offs associated with inclusionary zoning and related zoning options to promote new housing development, and particularly affordable housing development, in New York City.

Part Three provides recommendations not only on the inclusionary and related zoning options, but also of an ambitious concept to vastly expand affordable housing production.

Part Four is a new atlas of the City of New York, showing by census tract the availability of land for redevelopment. This is a joint effort of the Newman Institute and the Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information at Hunter College.

Part Five of the Report is a compendium of presenting the affordable housing programs of jurisdictions from across the nation.