Earlier this yr the NYU Furman Center released a study into Gentrification inward New York City (PDF). The study examines how increasing rents together with stagnating incomes bring contributed to the gentrification of nearly two-thirds of the city's previously low-income neighborhoods.
The effect of this gentrification of New York is that many residents are paying to a greater extent than inward housing than they tin easily afford. The Association for Neighborhoods together with Housing Development has decided to assistance heighten awareness of "where residential tenants may travel facing pregnant displacement pressures together with where affordable apartments are nigh threatened across New York City".
The association's Displacement Project Alert Map provides a edifice past times edifice assessment of where residential tenants may travel facing pregnant displacement pressures. Individual residential buildings are color coded on the map to demo the displacement endangerment score for residents living there.
The DAP map provides a set out of displacement endangerment score scores for New York residential buildings. These endangerment scores are based on the loss of rent regulated units, the book of Department of Buildings operate permits together with the score of holding sales tax. The map likewise provides a combined score for each edifice based on these multiple combined risks of displacement.
