Wait For It - Study Finds *Half* Of NYC Households Rent Burdened (apartment, tenants)

[BugsyPal]

Paying more than half their monthly income in rent.


https://ny.curbed.com/2018/10/12/179...rdable-housing


To be fair study does point out these people are likely to be over sixty or young adults with children.


While we all will get old one day, there is still something to be said for not having babies you can't afford.

[SeventhFloor]

It wasnt like this 20 years ago

Back in the day ppl looked at the projects like last resort

Now for a lot its first resort

That goes to show you

[SeventhFloor]

Why you think so many lottery threads

You yourself complain about lottery threads

Now look what u posting

Troll or what

[pierrepont7731]

LMAO You can't make this stuff up.

[OyCrumbler]

P h i l a d e l p h i a !

[randomperson2]

Let's everyone keep in mind that this city could not function without a ton of low-income workers. Unless you plan on bathing Great-Grandma yourself every day, you've got to make it possible for such people to live in reasonable proximity to work.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by randomperson2

Let's everyone keep in mind that this city could not function without a ton of low-income workers. Unless you plan on bathing Great-Grandma yourself every day, you've got to make it possible for such people to live in reasonable proximity to work.

Not to mention how are you going to eat? Rich people don't work in food service or in supermarkets. Or in laundromats. Rich people don't clean your house, make deliveries or do other work that makes the city superconvenient.

[mathjak107]

Originally Posted by BugsyPal

Paying more than half their monthly income in rent.


https://ny.curbed.com/2018/10/12/179...rdable-housing


To be fair study does point out these people are likely to be over sixty or young adults with children.


While we all will get old one day, there is still something to be said for not having babies you can't afford.

the good thing is if seniors are in stabilized housing ,which 1/2 the housing in nyc is , then they can be part of scrie if their income qualifies them and they never see another rent increase .

[bxlover]

Originally Posted by randomperson2

Let's everyone keep in mind that this city could not function without a ton of low-income workers. Unless you plan on bathing Great-Grandma yourself every day, you've got to make it possible for such people to live in reasonable proximity to work.

Grandma better be collecting bottles or just leaving one day to wander into tbe forest to no longer be a burden.

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by mathjak107

the good thing is if seniors are in stabilized housing ,which 1/2 the housing in nyc is , then they can be part of scrie if their income qualifies them and they never see another rent increase .

SCRIE only freezes rent, not lowers it in any way. So if a senior does qualify but it still spending half or more of their monthly income in rent, tough cheese.


One supposes as the last of truly dirt cheap below market rate RS units vanish (as the current tenants die or otherwise vacate), the remaining "boomers" are going to be caught between rock and hard place.


Know more than a handful of "elderly" persons on UES whose rent is well below $1000/month. But they've been living in those RS units since God made dirt and spit (1950's through 1970's).


OTOH also know middle aged persons (53 and over but under 65) whose rent now is $1300-$1400 per. That number will only increase until they reach qualifying SCRIE age. Many of these people are having trouble paying their rent now; God only knows what they will do. A friend of mine said her game plan is to keep working until she dies. That or unless she can find an apartment with lower rent someplace else.


In many ways all these persons are trapped by RS. They cannot move because even if found something cheaper, it likely wouldn't be RS so they would be subject to market rate rent at any time in future.


Waiting lines for NYCHA and or subsidized senior housing are long enough now. So long that people actually die before being called. BdeB's "affordable" or whatever housing scheme hasn't produced much new subsidized senior housing either.