{"id":3388,"date":"2008-04-30T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2008-04-30T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:29:08","slug":"yes_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/yes_and.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes.  And?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But what is perverse is that people who can afford not to spend half their income on rent <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/Who_needs_money_to_eat\/12370.html\">are probably doing so, too<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Arnold Somrah was spending almost half of his income on the Park Slope apartment he shared with a friend. The 24-year-old finally moved back into his parents&#8217; Ozone Park home. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t go out. Your Friday and Saturday nights are done,&#8221; said Somrah, who was paying $750 a month for his basement room. Samrah is now saving to eventually buy in Florida. &#8220;It&#8217;s too expensive here.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Nearly 530,000 renters in the city are spending 50 percent or more of their income on housing, a 14.9 percent jump from 1999, according to data released yesterday by Rep. Anthony Weiner. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Financial advisors say, &#8216;You should spend no more than a third of your income on rent'&#8221; said Weiner. &#8220;That&#8217;s sounding more and more like a pipe dream.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Bronx is feeling the burden the most, with 32.85 percent of its renters paying half their income on rent in 2006. Manhattan (22.32 percent) had the lowest.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what is perverse is that people who can afford not to spend half their income on rent are probably doing so, too: Arnold Somrah was spending almost half of his income on the Park Slope apartment he shared with a friend. The 24-year-old finally moved back into his parents&#8217; Ozone Park home. &#8220;You can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23,35,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citywide","category-consumer_issues","category-grrr","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","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=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}