New York City Houses Migrants In School Gyms
May 16th, 2023Via: New York Post:
At least six more Big Apple schools are set to start temporarily housing migrants in their gyms, prompting all hell to break loose Monday among parents frantic over safety and potential learning disruptions.
“To bus people to our school and expect the community to absorb them is just insane,” fumed Virginia Vu, a PTA member and parent at Brooklyn’s MS 577 in Williamsburg — adding some parents have already threatened to at least temporarily pull their kids out of the sixth-through-eighth grade school.
“The practice by landlords of refusing to rent apartments is known as warehousing, and the City reports that the number of warehoused rent-stabilized apartments jumped from about thirty thousand in 2020 to over eighty thousand in 2021 — at the exact time that news about New York City’s housing market gets evermore dire.”
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/new-york-city-landlords-affordable-housing-single-room-occupancy-crisis
“nearly half of the Manhattan luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold”
“what New York needs isn’t glistening three-bedroom units, but more simple one- and two-bedroom apartments for New York’s many singles, roommates, and small families.”
“the New York City area is losing about 300 residents every day.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/american-housing-has-gone-insane/605005/ (paywall)