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When a basement is $1200 it's no good. Even walk ups go for $1200 and up.
I'm currently paying $1400 for a basement studio. Would've been $1450 if I renewed the lease. No running heat, the super had to bring me a space heater because I was freezing last winter.
Needless to say I'm waiting to hear back from HPD on a 2br, for $1336. While electrical is currently included in my rent (probably the main plus) I much rather have the extra bill at the new place.
You know where there's plenty of affordable housing?
Basically 95% of the country. Stop trying to find something that just isn't there. Even the so-called "affordable" housing that gets you a single bedroom on the fourth floor of an non-elevator building. For $1200? You could have a whole house for half that amount. And no, not in some dying small town with a run-down main street.
You know where there's plenty of affordable housing?
Basically 95% of the country. Stop trying to find something that just isn't there. Even the so-called "affordable" housing that gets you a single bedroom on the fourth floor of an non-elevator building. For $1200? You could have a whole house for half that amount. And no, not in some dying small town with a run-down main street.
I say it often, NYC just isn't it unless you have MAD money. Between the rent, weather, and MTA, I find myself ready to leave more and more.
Ugh. Threads like these are seriously depressing for homesick folks such as myself, living in (involuntary, couldn't afford to move as widow with young, now grown up, son) exile and now ready to retire but can't afford to come home, so I'm compromising by moving to Philly where my SS and very small pension won't be taxed and I can get a decent, tiny studio in an okay neighborhood for about $950 and be 90 mins by train to NYC. I don't know if any of that will work, but it's the carrot that keeps me going.
Buy, don't rent. There's coops in the Bronx where you can get over 1k sq ft 2bds for less than $200k in good areas with monthly maintenance less than $800/mo, often less than $600/mo. That should in theory be within middle class budgets. Renting really is a fools game, but we do it to live where we want. Even I struggle with the emotional attachment I have to my Manhattan rent stabilized apartment and neighborhood.
Yup! Being in that nebulous income band between 41K and 69K gets you tossed to the curb. Unless you have a child with no baby daddy in the picture then you're golden. Sad we aren't all born with casino uterii.
As a divorced mom, with a child, in that band, I assure you, you're not golden. In fact, you are not eligible pretty much for anything.
I'm a breeder with no subsidies. I also don't live in Park F'n Slope. I do live in Ridgewood, but when I moved there, it wasn't gentrifying. I'm leaving the area; the place that my daughter has lived her entire life, and built real community and roots. So you're words are a little harder to take. What are you giving up by moving to a more affordable area? It's not like YOU are a child? It's not like you have to leave everything you have ever known. What's stopping you from moving to a different area, one more affordable? And FWIW, this is also my home town which is why I remained in NYC.
Buy, don't rent. There's coops in the Bronx where you can get over 1k sq ft 2bds for less than $200k in good areas with monthly maintenance less than $800/mo, often less than $600/mo. That should in theory be within middle class budgets. Renting really is a fools game, but we do it to live where we want. Even I struggle with the emotional attachment I have to my Manhattan rent stabilized apartment and neighborhood.
for me anything that's over 1300 doesn't include any amenties is a ripoff. i saw many of these apartment on streeteasy and these brokers are robbing people off.
I really hope i get selected for these affortable housing. I kept my credit well which is pushing 750 soon
so that i don't get denied when i eventually get selected for one.
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