The New York Housing Conference released the 2025 Housing Tracker report and updated the data on the NYC Housing Tracker website today.
This is the fourth Housing Tracker report, and the data in the report shows the same trend as in the previous three reports: housing is built unevenly across New York City’s 51 council districts, and predominantly Black and Hispanic and lower-income neighborhoods are leading the way.
We celebrate the districts building the most affordable housing. We have a new leader building the most affordable housing over the past 11 years. Council District 15 in Central Bronx and represented by Councilmember Oswald Feliz, is now leading the pack. District 15 produced 7,706 units of affordable housing over the past 11 years. Feliz’s district took over the top spot from District 17, represented by Councilmember Salamanca, which had the top spot for the previous three years.
Over the past 11 years, ten districts have produced more than 4,000 units of new affordable housing, with three districts producing more than 7,000 units in total. These districts are located in the Bronx, central and eastern Brooklyn, waterfront Brooklyn and Queens, and Manhattan.
Meanwhile, ten districts have produced fewer than 300 units of new affordable housing over the past 11 years, with five districts producing fewer than 100 units over that time.
Just looking at 2024, Council District 42 – in east Brooklyn represented by Councilman Chris Banks – produced 1,439 affordable housing units, the most of any district.
The uneven distribution of affordable housing may start to change in upcoming years. Current production patterns are likely to be positively impacted by significant zoning and tax reforms adopted in 2024.
Read the full report here. Visit the NYC Housing Tracker here.