Condos, Condos Everywhere
October 27th, 2009
The Right to the City-NYC, a coalition of New York City community organizations, released a new examination of the number of vacant condominium buildings in 10 community districts across the city — a number not exhaustive, but they say has surpassed 600.
Their count is the latest halted or stalled development inventory, which follows counts by New York Magazine and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. Their numbers are below. Out of the districts they looked at (which did not include the severely stalled Williamsburg) Downtown Brooklyn is leading.
The group canvassed formerly development prone neighborhoods looking for stalled developments to encourage the city to do more to create affordable housing. Despite Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s proposal to convert some of these empty luxury units into affordable housing, the coalition says that is not enough. As part of their agenda, they want to see the city purchase stalled developments and possibly warehouse spaces and convert them into affordable housing.
Downtown Brooklyn (CD 202): 126 Buildings
Lower East Side (CD 303): 116 Buildings
Bushwick (CD 204): 108 Buildings
Harlem (CDs 309, 310, 311): 99 Buildings
South Bronx (CDs 101, 103): 93 Buildings
W. Village/Chelsea (CDs 302, 304): 59 Buildings
For more on affordable housing during the Bloomberg years, see our Affordable Housing Not Included.
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December 7th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
the homelessness crisis in nyc has been on going for years. I am a poor person who has had to be charitable to a variety of citizens over the past 10 years to assist them as well as temporailly supply them with housing. I have no idea where this is all going but with the amount of monies in circulation, there is truly no need for anyone to be homeless living in the USA!