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Go to the east Bronx and look and see how many Dominicans you see. Dominicans in the Bronx mainly live in south and west portions of the borough that straddles and that opposites Washington Heights.
He didn't say where Domincans lived. He said that Dominicans and "nuyoricans" don't live in the same neighborhoods which isn't true.
Dominicans have been here longer and many have married into Nuyorican families, so that makes sense
(hasn't NY state stopped giving out new Section 8 vouchers a long time ago?)
They stopped giving out new Section 8 vouchers in 2009. There are some other governmental rent vouchers though. There's HASA, the Aids voucher, and the city has a couple of other vouchers. Not many landlords take them though, so basically you will not get a new apartment on any voucher ANYWHERE in Manhattan, INCLUDING Upper Manhattan. You won't get an voucher apartment in Brooklyn outside of East New York or Brownsvillege, and you won't get a voucher apartment in Queens outside Jamaica (Far Rockaway is gentrifying). Even the South Bronx these days rejects vouchers. One has to move out to some bad suburb like Mt. Vernon or Newark (in Jersey) though you might still be able to get voucher apartments in bad parts of the North Bronx.
I doubt many Mexicans and Dominicans in New Yoek even have section 8 vouchers.
Anyway, I hope some of them buy property, if not, they will be priced out to upstate NY, deep Jersey, Philly, etc.
Westchester and Nassau are NOT affordable, not even the bad parts.
Some of them will clearly have to buy property AND get good education AND start businesses, or else they will be priced out to those far away locations you mention. The same could be said of other minority groups.
I do think it's good that you do have wealthy Asian investors places like Flushing (in part because wealthy businesses from China invest in these places).
Some of them will clearly have to buy property AND get good education AND start businesses, or else they will be priced out to those far away locations you mention. The same could be said of other minority groups.
I do think it's good that you do have wealthy Asian investors places like Flushing (in part because wealthy businesses from China invest in these places).
I agree with this. However one can still get priced out if he or she is educated, but not highly educated like having a master's or 4 year ivy league or top private school degrees. One can have a business, but what if they can't afford rent, utilities, afford to pay employees, taxes. Same could be said for property, one can own, but can't afford rising cost of property taxes and utilities.
But You did say "look how many Dominicans you see." Honestly you can tell many apart by just looking at them alone.
There's a huge overlap in their appearance, and they tend to dress and talk similar (New York born ones at least)
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