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Research & Policy
Report Examines Home-Buying Potential in NYC for Households at Various Income Levels
A new NYU Furman Center and Citi report finds that becoming a homeowner in New York City’s real estate market is a considerable challenge for the vast majority of New York City households due to the city’s severely constrained supply of affordable home-buying opportunities. Homeownership prospects do not necessarily improve by moving to the surrounding New York suburbs.
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Research & Policy
The Dream Revisited: Making Vouchers More Mobile
The twentieth discussion on The Dream Revisited, Making Vouchers More Mobile, examines the benefits of defining fair market rent by zip code, to make it easier for families to move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods, and weighs potential unintended costs.
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Research & Policy
Policy Minute: Exploring Gentrification
Gentrification is an evolving topic, affecting many urban areas and highlighting some of the challenges that arise as neighborhoods evolve. This Policy Minute presents some of the latest research on gentrification, displacement, and neighborhood change.
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Research & Policy
The Dream Revisited: Public Housing and Deconcentrating Poverty
The nineteenth discussion debates what we should do about high-poverty, distressed public housing developments in light of recent research from the Moving to Opportunity Program about the costs of concentrated poverty.
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Research & Policy
Report Analyzes New York City’s Gentrifying Neighborhoods and Finds Dramatic Demographic Shifts
A special report on Gentrification in the NYU Furman Center’s annual State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods report identifies 15 gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City and finds that they have seen greater growth in the shares of the population that are young adults, college-educated, white, and living alone or with roommates.
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Research & Policy
Report: Renting in America’s Largest Metros
NYU Furman Center and Capital One release the 2016 NYU Furman Center/Capital One National Affordable Rental Housing Landscape, which analyzes rental housing affordability trends in the 11 largest metropolitan areas in the US.
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Research & Policy
Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in New York City
The NYU Furman Center’s latest report shows the extent of preservation in New York City and compares the land use, housing stock, demographic characteristics, and commercial property in historic districts with those in areas that are not regulated by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Research & Policy
The Dream Revisited: Segregation & the Financial Crisis
The latest discussion in the NYU Furman Center’s series debates the extent to which segregation exacerbated the unequal effects of the mortgage-driven financial collapse of 2007 and ways to address racial disparities in mortgage lending.
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Research & Policy
Policy Minute: New York State Property Tax System
In January, the New York State Assembly Committee on Real Property Taxation held a public hearing to evaluate New York City’s real property taxation system. Over the years, there have been numerous calls for reform from public officials, advocates, and academics alike, to address inequities within the current four property class system.
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Research & Policy
Policy Minute: Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning
The NYU Furman Center’s Policy Minute highlights research and discussion relevant to current policy debates. On December 16th, NYU Furman Center Executive Director Mark Willis delivered testimony before the New York City Planning Commission at its public hearing on the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability text amendment proposals. His remarks provided an overview of NYU Furman Center research relevant to mandatory inclusionary zoning and the parking provisions.