The Citizens Budget Commission has created the interactive map below to plot the location of each housing development created or preserved under New York City’s Housing New York plan to date.

In July Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City has produced or preserved 77,651 affordable housing units under the housing plan since he took office in January 2014.¹ The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development tracks the number and location of affordable housing units financed.²

Some neighborhoods, particularly in Central Brooklyn, Harlem, and the South Bronx, have seen significant amounts of new construction and preservation activity. In contrast, there has been little to no activity in other neighborhoods, including some with significant shares of rent-burdened households (those that pay more than 30 percent of income on rent). These neighborhoods include:

• Sunset Park, Borough Park, and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn;
• Elmhurst, Corona, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Woodhaven, and Ozone Park in Queens;
• Washington Heights and Inwood in Manhattan;
• Soundview, Williamsbridge, Wakefield, and Baychester in the Bronx; and
• the Mid-Island and South Shore neighborhoods of Staten Island.

The map shades each neighborhood according to the share of rent-burdened households in that area.³ The size of each dot denotes the number of affordable units preserved or constructed in each housing development financed under the housing plan, and the dots are colored to indicate whether the development is new construction (green) or a preservation project (orange). Clicking on a dot allows you to see additional information on the number of units financed by affordability level.