Manhattan needs more housing, and the City needs your help to plan it
For most of NYC’s history, Manhattan has been a place where people of all backgrounds could find an apartment and start their journeys in New York City.
Manhattanites enjoy unparalleled access to jobs, to public transit, and other amenities.
But finding a home in Manhattan has become out of reach for more and more people over the last several decades, as housing production lags and housing costs rise.
Housing production hasn’t kept up
More people want to live in Manhattan than there are available homes
From 2021-2024, Manhattan produced less housing than every borough other than Staten Island
In 2024, Manhattan produced only 14% of the newly built homes in NYC
Source: NYC Department of City Planning
Housing production varies by neighborhood
Some neighborhoods have produced meaningful amounts of housing over the last decade, while others have produced little to none. There are even some that have fewer homes than they did ten years ago, due to the merging of multiple apartments into single units.
Manhattan is becoming increasingly unaffordable
47% of Manhattanites are rent-burdened. This means that they spend 30% or more of their income on housing costs.
Median asking rent has increased by 50% since 2010. There is an urgent need for more income-restricted affordable homes.
Source: NYC Department of City Planning, StreetEasy
We need your ideas to develop the Manhattan Plan
The Manhattan Plan will provide a toolkit of strategies to add 100,000 new homes across the borough over the next decade. This will allow more people of all income levels to experience everything the borough has to offer.
To do this, the NYC Department of City Planning wants to hear your ideas, whether you live, work, or spend time in Manhattan.
Get involved to share your thoughts about what’s important to you, where housing should go, and to offer ideas for how we can get to 100,000 new homes.
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