{"id":1722,"date":"2006-11-01T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/only_in_new_york_does_145000_qualify_as_middle-income.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:48:19","slug":"only_in_new_yor_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/only_in_new_yor_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Only In New York Does $145,000 Qualify As “Middle-Income”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some decry the plan to bring poor people into the neighborhood<\/a>, a study notes that most Queens residents would not be able to afford it in the first place<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Praised as a major advance for affordable housing in Queens, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to build 5,000 middle-income rental units on the Long Island City waterfront would actually exclude more than 60 percent of Queens residents, notes a report that will be released today by the Pratt Center for Community Development.<\/p>\n

The median income in Queens was $45,000 last year, but the income required to qualify for the new apartments would fall between $60,000 and $145,000 a year for a family of four. Rents would run from $1,200 to $2,500 a month.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg announced his proposal for a mixed-income housing complex on 24 acres in Queens West just two days after the private sale of the 110 apartment buildings that make up the middle-class haven of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. The new Queens development was hailed as the city’s largest middle-income housing development since 1974, when the 5,888-unit Starrett City was built in Brooklyn. Bloomberg promised the new project would “provide needed housing for the real backbone of our city — our teachers, nurses, police officers.”<\/p>\n

“But the majority of teachers, police officers, firefighters and nurses in Queens earn less than the $60,000 cutoff for Queens West,” pointed out Marnie McGregor, a senior policy analyst at the Pratt Center and the author of the report.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As some decry the plan to bring poor people into the neighborhood, a study notes that most Queens residents would not be able to afford it in the first place: Praised as a major advance for affordable housing in Queens, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to build 5,000 middle-income rental units on the Long Island City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war","category-queens","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}