Stringer complains about loss of affordable apartments in Brooklyn
Fashionable, well-publicized Brooklyn lost more inexpensive apartments than any other borough during the past decade, according to a report released by city Comptroller Scott Stringer on Tuesday. In 2005, Brooklyn had 513,077 rental apartments that cost $900 or less. Now, only 145,701 remain, according to the New York Post.
Citywide, only 20 percent of all apartments cost $900 or less compared to 74 percent in 2005, Stringer’s study found. “Housing should be a way into the middle class, not a barrier to it. We need to take action,” Stringer said on Tuesday. He was joined by affordable-housing advocates who seek to pass stronger tenant-protection laws, the Post reported.
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.