The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development’s latest Housing Risk Chart paints a grim picture of affordability and affordable housing for Bronxites, particularly those in the borough’s southern and northwest corridors.
Eight of the Bronx’s 12 community districts (CD) have been flagged as the highest for threats to affordable housing, a metric developed by ANHD that combines indicators such as demographics along with housing and social risk factors for the 59 districts citywide.
Bronx community districts 1-7 and 12, ranked in the top 10 overall, are plagued by high evictions filings, rent burdened households, tenant-initiated housing court cases, hazardous building conditions and public housing service outages.
The districts, according to ANHD’s datasets, are among the lowest income neighborhoods in the city, with a share of its residents people of color, non-native speakers and highly uninsured.
Community districts 5, 6 and 7 — which span Fordham, Belmont and Kingsbridge have threats to affordable housing scores higher than 20 — the highest non-Bronx score is 15 for Brooklyn’s CD 17 (East Flatbush).
While affordable housing boons are happening in the Bronx’s CD 7 (Kingsbridge/Bedford) and CD1 (Mott Haven/Melrose) with 720 and 686 new units, respectively. Despite both districts constructing new units at the highest rate citywide, those new units are considerably outside the median income of residents.
One of the major takeaways from the 2023 risk chart, according to ANHD, is a trend of low-income New Yorkers of color disproportionately on the end of negative renting outcomes such as evictions while also being priced out of neighborhoods, thanks to new development.
CD1 and CD6 (Belmont/East Tremont), where more than 80% of its residents are people of color, are spotlighted by ANHD as districts that are seeing a large addition of non-affordable units and soon-to-expire Low-Income Housing Tax Credit units, which are often targeted for…
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