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Bed-Stuy Residents Not Happy With State Of Their City
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 10, 2014
Modified Feb 10, 2014
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 10, 2014
Modified Feb 10, 2014
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In his state of the city speech today, Bill de Blasio said, "To countless New Yorkers, affordable housing is an oxymoron…Good jobs that pay decent wages are all too scarce." Nowhere are these sentiments more apparent than in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where 75% of residents say that the housing situation is intolerable, nearly 60% say jobs that pay a living wage are scarce, and 53% say the job market is only getting worse.
The numbers come from the Talking Transition project (a.k.a. That Giant, Expensive Looking Tent On Canal Street In November), which surveyed 52,000 New Yorkers, most of them through canvassing every neighborhood in the city.
Bed-Stuy was one of six neighborhoods, including Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, that had a sample size of 1% or more of their populations represented in the report. While the mayor's neighborhood shared Bed-Stuy's concern about affordable housing, nearly 50% of Park Slope residents felt that their ability to lead their lives the way they want to is "good," compared with 45% of Bed-Stuy residents stating that it's "bad."
A majority of Bed-Stuy residents also declared that public safety in their neighborhood was "bad," with 47% saying it was "getting worse."
Unsurprisingly, the lack of affordable housing was the issue that every single neighborhood agreed was getting worse.
You can read the results of the entire report here [PDF].
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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