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It's more than simple supply and demand. It's artificially low supply and increased demand. Sweetheart deals for luxury housing and rent controlled housing mea
by LordKano 11y ago
It's more than simple supply and demand. It's artificially low supply and increased demand.
Sweetheart deals for luxury housing and rent controlled housing mean that developers are going to put more time, energy and money into bringing upper income housing into NYC while the middle and lower income people are left with fewer options.
Because of the geography and municipal structure of the area, middle and upper-middle income housing is doing quite well here.
- sukilot 11y agoNYC has the highest pop density of just about any city in the world. It has extremely high demand, due to its celebrity status making it a magnet for the whole world.
- LordKano 11y agoThat high demand coupled with artificially low supply has led to exorbitant pricing in the NYC housing market. Just because we can explain why it happens doesn't make those prices any less exorbitant. Pricing is exorbitant in other facets of life in NYC as well but that is a separate discussion.