Last month ProPublica reported on the loss of rent stabilized apartments inwards New York City together with the growing publish of tenants beingness evicted past times landlords. The lawsuit has been a dramatic decrease inwards affordable housing together with increasing gentrification inwards many of the city's neighborhoods.
Last yr the NYU Furman Center released a written report into Gentrification inwards New York City (PDF). The written report examines how increasing rents together with stagnating incomes convey contributed to the gentrification of nearly two-thirds of the city's previously low-income neighborhoods.
The lawsuit of this gentrification of New York is that many residents are paying to a greater extent than inwards housing than they tin privy easily afford. The Association for Neighborhoods together with Housing Development is worried past times the increasing loss of affordable housing together with has decided to assistance heighten awareness of "where residential tenants may hold upwards 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 hold upwards facing pregnant displacement pressures. Individual residential buildings are color coded on the map to present the displacement run a peril grade for residents living there.
The DAP map provides a publish of displacement run a peril grade scores for New York residential buildings. These run a peril scores are based on the loss of rent regulated units, the book of Department of Buildings run permits together with the grade of belongings sales tax. The map equally good provides a combined score for each edifice based on these multiple combined risks of displacement.
ProPublica's interactive map Tracking Evictions together with Rent Stabilization inwards NYC shows the publish of eviction cases that were made inwards New York City storey blocks betwixt Jan 2013 together with June 2015. There may non hold upwards a straight correlation betwixt the publish of eviction orders inwards New York together with the wish of landlords to displace out rent stabilized tenants, yet the ProPublica map sure shows an incredible publish of eviction orders have been made against New York tenants inwards recent years.
Clicking on the storey buildings colored on the ProPublica map reveals the publish of eviction orders placed on tenants (and the probable rent stabilization condition of the building's apartments). It is genuinely remarkable how many storey buildings inwards New York convey had over 100 eviction orders served on tenants inwards such a curt infinite of time.
