Jennifer Rodriguez is about to move to another state… she says the rent has gone up so much that she can no longer pay it.
“And wages are always low and rents go up and it is difficult to maintain an income here … I am about to go to another state, to Florida because (with) the conditions here you cannot live,” said Rodríguez.
And is that according to a report by Streeteasy, one of the best known online real estate sites, housing prices in Brooklyn have risen drastically due to the great demand that there is from tenants.
For example, in Bushwick, a neighborhood with half the number of Latino residents, there are buildings with so-called affordable rent apartments that require a family income of more than $ 75,000 per year.
“A one-bedroom or one-room apartment at 2,300, 2,600, is what they are charging, supposedly it is affordable … The concept of affordable housing for this area of Bushwick and Williamsburg does not exist,” said Jennifer Gutierrez, Democratic candidate to the municipal council.
But in other parts of the county, prices are also rising, while jobs have yet to pick up.
Such is the case with Rosa Marín, who says that her sales have fallen and she has found it difficult to complete for her rental in Sunset Park.
“The owners of the houses charge us more and sales are low, there is nowhere to get money … You have to ask the neighbors to pay, otherwise they throw us out on the street,” said Marín.
And it is that in neighborhoods like Bedstuy, Greenpoint or Downtown Brooklyn the average rent in July was even higher than what was paid before the pandemic.
Median rent in Brooklyn is $ 2,600, while the number of available homes in July fell by a third compared to last summer.
Only 8% of the rented apartments received some type of discount or concession, as opposed to 15% in the summer of 2019.
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