Gothamist — By Catalina Gonella

A new report shows wide disparities in the amount of affordable housing built in different New York City Council districts — with more going up in predominantly lower-income Black and Latino neighborhoods.

The third annual NYC Housing Tracker from the advocacy organization New York Housing Conference found that the city produced 14,227 units of affordable housing last year, which was the highest yearly number in recent decades. But it also revealed similar patterns as the first two reports did, including a small number of communities bearing the brunt of producing enough units to relieve the city’s housing crisis.

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The top 10 districts that built the most affordable housing each produced 600 or more new units in 2023, according to the report. Those include Brooklyn Councilmember Shanaha Hanif’s District 39, which came in 10th with 622 units, and Queens Councilmember Francisco Moya’s District 21, which came in second with 1,031 units [Read More].