The New York Housing Conference today released our third annual NYC Housing Tracker Report, which compiles data on housing production in each City Council district. The findings highlight how a small number of communities are bearing the responsibility of the vast majority of housing production citywide, amplifying NYC’s housing crisis.
The report outlines solutions to support increased housing production, including boosting capital funding for housing in the NYC Budget as well as passing the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity.
Council District 17 in the Bronx produced more new units of affordable housing than any other district both in the past year (1,266) and over the last 10 years (7,182). In 2023, District 17 created as many new units of housing as the bottom 28 council districts combined. Last year the top 10 districts each produced over 600 units of new affordable housing or more; meanwhile, the lowest-producing districts produced less than 10 units of affordable housing, with two districts producing no new affordable housing.
District 17 Councilmember Rafael Salamanca, and Councilmembers Shahana Hanif (CD 39) and Crystal Hudson (CD 35) joined the New York Housing Conference, along with several of our partners, at City Hall today to announce the launch of the report and to call on Mayor Adams to increase NYC’s housing production.
“New York City’s housing crisis is dire and it’s worsening every year. We simply are not building enough housing, and this report shows that a major factor is the inequitable distribution of housing production citywide,” said Rachel Fee, Executive Director of the New York Housing Conference. “We’re putting the burden on lower-income communities, while whiter and wealthier neighborhoods are not doing their part to help make New York a place where individuals and families can stay and thrive. The City Budget must allocate $1 billion in capital funds so we can just maintain our housing production and unclog our housing pipeline, and we must overhaul our outdated zoning regulations that restrict production by passing the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity.”
See the housing tracker here.
See the 2024 report here.
