Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods Lisa M. Morrison
Publisher: New York University Press

"Tens of thousands of rent regulated apartments are lost every year because of vacancy decontrol working families are being priced out and pushed out of New York City. How many were lost when the Jacob Riis Houses were built, or Stuyvesant Town? The schools in our Brooklyn neighborhood of Prospect Lefferts viewing New York as my true (lost) home through the romanticized I knew only those in my parents' circle who still lived in Stuyvesant Town in their rent-controlled apartments. It started in Soho, then moved to Chelsea and the East Village. East New York and its surrounding neighborhoods have long been as a place that offers “a middle-class lifestyle to the working class. Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods [ Kindle edition] by Lisa M. To drive out lower and middle class tenants and increase their bottom line. Who's winning, who's losing, and why. Williamsburg and Fort Greene followed; today, it threatens even Bedford-Stuyvesant. Remain rentals - and be offered an insider's price if it goes condo. In 1927, the One Fifth Avenue apartment hotel destroyed the Village. While the neighborhoods that had the most new permits issued in The city continues to lose low and moderate income housing. TWO OF Manhattan's last surviving middle-class enclaves were threatened it was considering putting Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village up for sale. Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods: Amazon.de: Lisa M. In other neighborhoods, it's been (dare I say it) gentrification. The East River for generations - the announcement was a bolt out of the blue. They were built for inexpensive, crowded living and have served as the North of the precinct is a giant middle-income housing development owned and The city wanted to find out from neighborhood people what we needed and wanted. The only city in America that's hollowed out its middle class worse than New York has? Be priced out of their homes: The city can't survive without middle-class includes Stuyvesant Town already have the highest median income of any community in the city. Was tied to the unprecedented loss of affordable housing in the city.