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wth? I just checked the Housing Connect. Development in Green Point Brooklyn.
%50 income will go on rent!
lets look at:
(Studio, for $1,097/month - 1 person -(Income range- $38,949 - $48,350)
lets say person get $40k a year *0.30=$12000 (taxes+some retirement)= $28000
$28000 - $13164(yearly rent) = $14836
$14836
-$1400/year- ($116 monthly unlimited metro card )
-$3120/year Food year(260/per month)
-$660/year ($55/month for Cell/Mobile Phone)
=$9656 a year for savings (more deductions Cable TV, Wifi, Entertainment etc)
and 2 bedroom rent is going for $2,216!!! for 2 people income range- $77,383 - $89,830
NYC $1100 for Studio while you can rent 2br/buy a property somewhere else.
can't wait to get out of this overrated place.
Lmaoo and City has exam for job 'Call Center Rep' Salary $35000 after 6 months. "Bachelors degree to qualify!
Why would a person stay here if their not making like $80k+
Last edited by nycnyc11209; 04-30-2016 at 10:15 PM..
Agreed. And even the studios that one lives alone is usually a shoebox for that price and young professionals are not home much anyway. Been like this for a while and not changing for the better anytime soon. As I said in another thread many get good experience here and then move to a lower COL area to settle down and have a family.
wth? I just checked the Housing Connect. Development in Green Point Brooklyn.
%50 income will go on rent!
lets look at:
(Studio, for $1,097/month - 1 person -(Income range- $38,949 - $48,350)
lets say person get $40k a year *0.30=$12000 (taxes+some retirement)= $28000
$28000 - $13164(yearly rent) = $14836
$14836
-$1400/year- ($116 monthly unlimited metro card )
-$3120/year Food year(260/per month)
-$660/year ($55/month for Cell/Mobile Phone)
=$9656 a year for savings (more deductions Cable TV, Wifi, Entertainment etc)
and 2 bedroom rent is going for $2,216!!! for 2 people income range- $77,383 - $89,830
NYC $1100 for Studio while you can rent 2br/buy a property somewhere else.
can't wait to get out of this overrated place.
Lmaoo and City has exam for job 'Call Center Rep' Salary $35000 after 6 months. "Bachelors degree to qualify!
Why would a person stay here if their not making like $80k+
That $1100 for a studio apartment is actually well below market rent for much of Manhattan, west Brooklyn, Queens, etc.... Only those in rent controlled or stabilized apartments normally have rents that low. Even then we're talking outside of lottery winners or other subsidized housing the various "lifers" who have been in their places for fifteen or more years now.
"Affordable is based on 30% of income. Has been that way for a long time.
So the person making $38,949 should spend $974 in rent. THe upper limit guy at 48,350 should spend $1209 for rent.
The $1097 rent is precisely 30% of income for someone making $43,880, almost the exact midpoint of the range ($43, 650.)
Yes, things are expensive in New York City but then who didn't know that?
Do you have any idea in how many parts of the country people would KILL for a 44K job.
I agree that many of the "affordable" housing units in NYC are not very affordable at all. For someone earning $40,000 a year, an $1100/month apartment is not affordable at all. (In fact, it is so unaffordable that no landlord would rent to that person at that salary/rent going by the 40 X rule.)
I know, because I was earning slightly more than that, in the low 40's, and paying $1000/month in my regular (not an "affordable") apartment in Brooklyn and it wasn't so easy to get by. I was basically paying half my take-home salary in rent.
Does no one think it's absurd that only *some* apartments/housing in NYC are deemed "affordable"?
Would people not think it strange if only some special supermarkets sold "affordable food"?
Maybe the real issue is less the cost of the apartment, but more the absurdity of the 40x idea.
Agreed, it is a bit extreme.
Honestly, with that rule, someone would need to earn $48,000/year to afford even the very cheapest outer borough studio/one bedroom apartment of $1200/month.
I don't quite understand, if landlords go by that rule, where all the working class and middle income families are living in NYC.
Honestly, with that rule, someone would need to earn $48,000/year to afford even the very cheapest outer borough studio/one bedroom apartment of $1200/month.
I don't quite understand, if landlords go by that rule, where all the working class and middle income families are living in NYC.
In the outter boros away from a train station within walking distance.
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