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Originally Posted by C.
I agree with this. It's a little difficult to pinpoint how much housing was built during the DeBlasio era because the city will often time consolidates the numbers on housing created or retained. I hate when they do this because the retained component doesn't add to the housing supply. It just extends the benefit for those that won the housing lottery and for their heirs.
I'll give you an example from
https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofne...6/2021-HSR.pdf
So only 7,380 were newly constructed by the city's programs... in a city of 8.8 million.
Supply has been increasing, but it's woefully inadequate given NYC's population. This is why Hudson County. NJ has have been going gangbusters, picking up the slack. And most of of the municipalities in Hudson County have densities that exceed NYC. Yet, they are still able to incrementally grow and increase the quality of life.
Wikipedia has the numbers from 2010. Side note is that Hoboken is now at 48,335 people per sq mile, up from 39,066 from 2010, and is still building 10 times more per capita than NYC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...lation_density |
Hoboken is only 1 square mile, so it's pretty easy to spike the density numbers there. Percentage wise, Hudson County is probably the fastest growing large county in NY metro, but it would be in fourth place in raw growth as a borough (up 90k since 2010). Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan added more population than Hudson (232k, 175k, and 109k respectively). Even the Bronx added nearly as much as Hudson (87k).