Ill see how this goes. My question for this poll is: Should New York City mayor Bill de Blasio make New York City the next $15 Hr. minimum wage city?:
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*i wasn't sure how the poll question article should be laid out. (im more focused here on the income vs cost of living, as opposed to just the income part of it all, personally):
Poor and working New Yorkers earning less than $40,000 a year are hit the hardest by the rent increases, Comptroller Stringer said in a statement. While low-income renters used to spend a third of their wages on rent, they now spent 41 percent.
“Despite multi-billion dollar initiatives to expand the affordable housing stock in New York City, apartments have become more expensive across every income level with the working poor disproportionately affected,” he said.
According to the report, entitled, “The Growing Gap: New York City’s Housing Affordability Challenge,” rents increased across the rest of the country during the same time period by 44 percent vs. New York City’s 75 percent. While the median home value has doubled, nearly 360,000 apartments renting for $400 to $1,000 per month (in 2012 dollars) disappeared during the 2000 to 2012 period, Stringer said.
More than 52,000 New Yorkers live in shelters, including 22,000 children. This is up from a low of roughly 31,000 in 2002.