Even People Who Earn $100K a Year Fear They’ll be Priced Out of New York
(DNAINFO) Jeff Mays | February 25, 2016 — Sixty-five percent of all residents fear they soon won’t be able to afford living in their neighborhood.
A majority of New Yorkers who earn more than $100,000 a year feel they’re likely to be priced out of their neighborhood, according to a new poll.
An NY1/Baruch College poll showed that affordable housing was the most important issue to New Yorkers, with 20 percent of those polled ranking it ahead of crime, jobs and the economy.
Each of those issues earned 16 percent of residents who felt they were the most important issue.
Homelessness, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent months addressing by rolling out billions of dollars in new initiatives, rounds out the top five issues at 12 percent.
The poll comes as de Blasio’s zoning changesdesigned to facilitate his plan to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housingby 2024 are being examined by the City Council.