Gentrification: How it is impacting the Bronx

[@kingsittystudios2400]

Gentrification hy definition means " to transpose unworthy people with better stock,aka ' the gentry', they build a hip hop museum the same way they build a native American museum, to memorialize what they will erase

[@ASoulFulT]

Totally agree.

[@Kimmy_95]

Sad but true.

[@EM-wo6wf]

A very good way to put it

[@sheilaharrison6509]

@@EM-wo6wf Yes

[@deejay5102]

Wow....

[@Ghostdog198]

NYC has lost its soul they should not even play that Frank Sinatra song anymore.

[@PopCultureCarnivore1]

It truly has

[@Jenvlogs404]

@@PopCultureCarnivore1since the towers it has never been the same

[@piffromney1916]

@@Jenvlogs404it’s been a slow nosedive since then now a rapid one after 2020

[@errolthomas9426]

Nailed it 💯

[@DBONPC]

Yea NYC is becoming unaffordable for its own citizens and that's a real problem that our government refuses to fix

[@josephbattaglia3690]

Reagan said it the best. Government isn't the solution, it is the problem . Nyc and San Fran are the cities with the highest rents. These are the same two cities that have the highest rents in the nation and have the most govt regulations on housing.

[@irisfigueroa5882]

FACTS THE RENTS ARE REDICULOUS EVEN IF YOU MAKE 60,000 A YEAR

[@irisfigueroa5882]

And also alot these ppl get these nice apartments but once they in they destroy these buildings hangout letting there kids play in the hallways etc like they can't keep nothing new, new and that's a fact I've seen it with my own eyes and it's sad

[@elveestef]

Same thing happening in the Lehigh Valley. LV housing prices attract NY and NJ folks because it's more affordable. Therefore, rents here have skyrocketed. I am 56 years old and having to live with a relative until I can figure out how to be out on my own again. I sold my home in Easton in 2020 during the pandemic to move away for love. Now getting divorced and back here in the LV where I was born and raised. Biggest mistake of my life was to sell my house.

[@marcpadilla1094]

Startin to get the Sanctuary picture. The NYCHA negligence together with a super surplus of cheap labor secures poverty. No moral superiority just superiority.

[@Mr_B79]

What they've done to the Bronx in terms of forcing current residents out is disastrous. There's a really nice building in the Fordham section of the Bronx, close to Fordham U, the minimum income requirement is 80k and the monthly rent is $2200 or 26k a year. That 80k for a single occupant is more like 60 k after taxes. The income guide lines should be based on NET income , not gross. NO ONE takes home their gross so why are we basing income guidelines on earnings we never see. I make about 70 k a year and after taxes and garnishments, what I am left with would make anyone sick to their stomach. There is no "affordable" housing in this city.

[@NotBen101]

That is steep, but for a single person, id recommend getting a roommate by flexing it out. However a person making 80k can reduce their tax burden by investing in a 401k.

[@mrmrso228]

My family was forced out of Bronx neighborhoods because of crime. No one cared then.

[@TannyYem]

Thank you this is criminal. I hate the comments that gi well these people were here all these years. They didn't invest, how the hell can people invest when they don't even make enough money to afford rent groceries and other exspenses. Most BP average salary isn't even close to 50k a month.

[@mrmrso228]

@@TannyYem no one is stopped from getting a better job.

[@MissAprilCakes]

Housing Connect and Affordable Housing is a joke

[@orangecat5036]

One thing the bronx doesn't need is more people.

[@moses1655]

😂😂😂 im from the South Bronx and thats funny...

[@Youcanthandlethetruth-n5b]

Well, more of a CERTAIN kind of people. If it could go back to the way it was in the 1930's when my father grew up right across from Yankee Stadium......

[@aem870]

@@Youcanthandlethetruth-n5b you're not from the Bronx nor the neighbourhoods being gentrified so this isn't about your racist bish ass.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@Youcanthandlethetruth-n5bwell they’d fund and protect it more then, but they oughta start doing it already so they can let them move back in, safer neighborhoods attract common people.

[@ToOpen6seven]

@@Youcanthandlethetruth-n5b What do you mean by a 'CERTAIN kind of people' ??

[@Mr5083]

I’m paying $1900 a month to live in a hundred year old apartment building in the Bronx near Yankee Stadium , no super no cleaner nothing lucky we get hot water and heat , I pay out of my pocket no section eight or Welfare for me in the winter I gotta run two electric heaters to keep warm so that’s another $250 out of my pocket for ConEdison , these new buildings are free for welfare people and I was told for me the rent would be $3100 month to live in the Bronx with violent criminals and piles of trash and dog chit all over the streets , it crazy and I’ll be moving out of New York it’s become a expensive garbage dump.

[@christssoulwinner188]

I know place in The Bronx where rent is $900-$1,100 rent/month.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

A wide one or tenement?

[@chriszenko3598]

$1900 a month rent in Florida you can get a beautiful apartment

[@ToOpen6seven]

You can get a brand new home for 2400 a month in NC -- Raleigh/Durham area.

[@ToOpen6seven]

It is also very unfortunate that many people on section 8 and welfare who pays for nothing or very low rent don't appreciate much. Not all low income people are this way, but the few that are make it hard for others.

[@CanaryCarats]

The housing connect requirements are proof that nyc is completely unaffordable. Requiring people who make 68k to pay 1900 for a studio is just ridiculous. Something has to change and it has to change soon

[@stevenchow408]

Escape from New York. The real movie

[@Matthew-p2h]

Yes, please leave. We need the space.

[@seds94]

😂😂😂​@@Matthew-p2hy'all need Jesus

[@Mr5083]

Yes if you pay out of pocket lots of better places to live , New York City is a giant trash dump , violent and filthy but if your getting it all free it’s a great place to be a welfare paradise

[@hardren101]

Luxury meets rip off......So basically the developers have run out land in Manhattan & Bklyn,Harlem, so the Bronx is all that's left. I saw an add just last week for a new "Luxury" high rise in the S. Bronx off 149th/G. Concourse...$2k per month for a studio.....Sadly we live in a society of "Build it and they will come, so the folks will pay it....

[@RhodesRhetoric]

Harlem is located in Manhattan

[@krnpowr]

If tenants keep coming, that means that supply hasn't exceeded demand, so why would developers stop building?

[@MissAprilCakes]

@@RhodesRhetoric but wen ppl talk abt Manhattan traditionally they mean lower than 96th St albeit, East or West. But what I normally say is “The City” to clarify 96 St and lower.

[@2DTheBeast]

Not to mention all these luxury building are all near 138th-155th to keep them close to the city and that area is a dead zone. No business, horrible transportation options, and unsafe like crazy at night. How many people get off at 138th on the 4 line? Barely anyone. Those buildings are for people who can afford to work from home and do everything in the city. This ain't affordable at all.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@RhodesRhetoricbut they went outside ethnic neighborhoods too(Lower East Side, Alphabet City).

[@Youcanthandlethetruth-n5b]

I don't care WHERE it is - NO ONE Bedroom apartment should be renting for a number starting HIGHER than a ONE! Period!

[@prdivamom]

Starbucks in the neighborhood means gentrification is here… time to move out RENTS TOO DAMN HIGH

[@mspino5245]

Yup! Once Starbucks shows up, you know things are going to change.

[@seds94]

The ghetto is a trap of low vibration. You're not meant to live or eat like that. Go where the trees are

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Fake holidays coming up.they will give you turkeys and toys to make you feel good.buy Christmas trees bamboozled

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Victoria secret, whole foods, pandora next

[@letrice2892]

It also depends on the area if things are near water fronts oh yes thats money for developers to make high risers and add stores and shops specifically for that neighborhood . Gentrification also brings exclusivity let's not forget that part also

[@crystalcastillo7575]

Forcing native residents out is dirty work, these developers are gonna get their karma

[@mariee.5912]

Meh. Nothing happens

[@arte7sol]

"Working poor community". 😭 thats me. And it is real.

[@jordancarson]

This area of Mott Haven is towards the waterfront. Not further in the neighborhood where it’s much rougher in comparison. About a mile away from this area is where the opioid and fentanyl epidemic is really taking shape.

[@shawnhall9792]

@jordancarson if they could gentrify and turn Long island city from a pimp and Prostitute area to new heights then mott haven and in the surrounding area where the opioid and fentanyl epidemic are taking place can definitely be turned around as well . Hell look at Harlem on 125 and even on the side of central Park in Harlem there's nothing but drugs and crime but the area is still drawing in people same as mott haven lol they'll clean it up .

[@Fellow287]

What streets?

[@CaraMarie13]

That's true but just like Brooklyn and Queens before it, those tentacles begin to slowly reach outwards. When the construction in this area started, it was primarily along 3rd Avenue, right off the 6 train. It stretched towards the waterfront over time.

[@irisfigueroa5882]

@jordancarson Exterior St going towards bjs and on the Concourse they have built alot of buildings there also.

[@Fellow287]

What part exactly is the fentanyl/opioid epidemic taking shape?

[@dannybx78]

Gentrification is a real NYC problem.

[@chriszenko3598]

Take a look at some youtube channels that have videos how the Bronx use to look before the decline in the 1960s.

[@HiImRheya]

It’s a problem for the non productive members of society/ criminals that are living in section 8

[@bestchannelintheworld]

it's a political problem. The rich people want the entire city to be nice, upscale, clean and safe, and the only easy way to achieve that is through rent hikes, which ensures (practically guarantees) that only upper-middle class people will be able to afford to stay. Basically, you can either have a third-world shithole of a city that is cheap, or total gentrification.

[@MochaQueen5]

End times New York City is Babylon.

[@typicalnewyorker5993]

You’re not wrong at all. People want their neighborhoods better and safer and when it does it’s supposedly bad.🤷‍♂️ Granted rent is crazy everywhere in ny and that is not a Bronx problem

[@merccadoosis8847]

I'm a senior who lives in public housing. Without such access, I'd be homeless. At my age and medical condition I am much too old to go back to work and could never accumulate the type of monies landlords are demanding nowadays. With the continued aging of the population, the government should build up subsidized housing to accommodate seniors and others who cannot afford to pay these new rent rates. The government is quick to send billions overseas to build up nations, especially those at war. It can use those same monies here just as readily.

[@MrBarrageman]

You seem able to write the comment out just fine. You sure there’s no work you can do?

[@merccadoosis8847]

@@MrBarrageman Over 70, half crippled with arthritis, irregular heartbeat, and suffer from nocturnal seizures (a form of epilepsy that occurs in my sleep - no cure, no treatment). My mind remains somewhat sharp but I cannot say the same for my body. Anyone who wants to try hiring me is welcome to do so.

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Money for wars

[@Cripsandbloodsaresellouts]

@@lacinabakayoko4634can’t feed the poor Damn 😂

[@Michael20]

What did you boomers do with the money you made when America was prosperous with less inflation and cheaper college

[@edgaro9660]

People in the comments belittling the Bronx and degrading each other’s borough. NYC as a whole is a dump, most of u just like to fight against each other instead of uplifting one another smh

[@E1ucidate]

Agreed. Highkey screw this place. And I'm from here

[@Militantreturns]

There pushing all the poor folks out

[@mike112079]

They’re *

[@NP-zs5ui]

You spelled crime breeders wrong.

[@mrmrso228]

And those poor folks pushed out the White folks.

[@Militantreturns]

@@mike112079 you're. LGBTQ.

[@Militantreturns]

@@mrmrso228 did they? Have you ever been. To Bronxville. Or. Thogs neck? Be quiet

[@donjohn4910]

Pelham Bay is now hood. 20 years ago Mott Haven was a war zone

[@mrmrso228]

Right. WTF happened to Pelham Bay? I'm in Morris Park for over 32 years, I grew up in Inwood. I know hood...and I see it happening VERY quickly where I am. There are some new buildings being shoved into Eastchester Road and I KNOW what that's going to lead to.

[@SamMcKinley]

😂😂😂You are correct! Economics is cyclic. You never had homeless in Pelham Bay. Now there are people laying outside and inside the station

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Where is your community not neighbors

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

By design

[@mrmrso228]

@@lacinabakayoko4634 The City of Yes wants to destroy middle class areas, especially those with 1-2 family homes.

[@SuperStarRendon]

I remember this area very well. Sad to see all these new buildings going up, but not for the people who struggle in the area. It's brings others out of towners with their ideas kicking long time residents out. The Bronx is not the same Bronx I knew growing up. I am glad we had all that space growing up but wished there was better housing back then without high price rents. People are in top of each other. Maybe they should've build affordable houses over buildings. Just a thought.

[@surfntrucks]

All of that ill migrant money could have gone to Bronx residents. Weak leadership cost lives.

[@OBITOMAJIN]

They wanna push em out that’s why smh

[@obrienortega6942]

Which the majority of NYC voted for open borders and become a sanctuary city. Cry me a river...

[@wesleyneilsen7671]

I've thought about that very thing many times the past couple years

[@mistareee]

Nyc has raised rental assistance by double digit percentages in the last couple of years. Check out how much cityfheps vouchers went up. You are not well informed. 🤭

[@wesleyneilsen7671]

@mistareee they still wasted a ton of money

[@MrPokemex]

I lived in Mott Haven and developers were able to easily take advantage of a very vulnerable community. Their is no presence of unity in that neighborhood as everyone is trying to meet ends living paycheck to paycheck. Mott Haven still has the highest level of poverty within the 5 boroughs and most likely in the state of New York. I remember how one specific block was practically bought out to rent for a specific demographic as the new landlords placed housing rules to tenants that they had to show sources of income regardless. This impacted the undocumented and elderly folks who had lived for years and most probably were on top of their payments only to be forced to move out.

[@mrmrso228]

But WHY do these folks live paycheck to paycheck? Perhaps the choices they make - single motherhood, teenage motherhood, absent fathers, an odd focus on getting locked up or knocked up as a teenager. The South Bronx was not always like this. There is a ghetto mentality that needs to stop. Take responsibility for their actions instead of finger pointing. The undocumented don't belong here. They should all be deported. This city is spending way too much money and resources on people breaking the law. They are taking from the elderly and disabled.

[@redsox1935]

This is crazy because Bronx is the cheapest borough to live in. So if rents go up there will be no place for regular people to live. Wages need to increase

[@Robbie-mw5uu]

NO. Wages are FINE. Rent just needs to go down. These apartments are being called luxury for meeting the bare minimum. A one bedroom apartment needs to be low enough for ONE person to afford ($700-900/month)

[@SoSikWitIt]

rents been up since like 2020

[@SoSikWitIt]

@@Robbie-mw5uu they luxury cause how they look u go to a hood anywhere u want see no marble countertops with cameras everywhere lookin like beverly hills

[@chloestewart1902]

All these cheap luxury buildings with no supermarkets in sight 😂😂😂

[@BajatheChickenMan]

Dollar general can move in just like they do in the poor areas of America.

[@chloestewart1902]

@BajatheChickenMan Yes that is why NYC have a bunch of $.99 cent stores in every neighborhood. This is not America, it's NYC, what's your point?

[@BajatheChickenMan]

@@chloestewart1902 Sorry guess you missed it, Those are the scumbag companies that fill the void in food deserts.

[@UntilMakaveliReturns]

Bronx terminal is right up the street from these

[@chloestewart1902]

Bronx terminal is by 149, this area is Mott Haven, not the same and there So many new buildings over there they have yet to building a new market in the area. There's a city md. a flower shop book store, pizza shop restaurant. etc but nothing practical

[@familygonzalez1188]

They interviewed the business owner from BK about gentrification in the Bronx. Make it make sense

[@BajatheChickenMan]

Dude runs a French-Mexican fusion restaurant LOL wutttt? bro you are the gentrification!

[@bkhustler]

because they are signaling for others to come.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Did you pay attention to the part where he said gentrification ran him up?

[@BlimpCityFeeder]

That’s why the SODA program sent NYC folks to Newark & The Oranges, until the dilapidated conditions of the buildings were exposed. The big change will hit when fewer landlords accept those on housing programs and whispers begin about privatizing nearby NYCHA.

[@FancyMissLady]

It has already started in Brooklyn. NYCHA buildings are being purchased privately. I’ve been wondering how long before they give us notice about leaving.

[@seds94]

Im in North jersey. It's getting so bad, I'll take the trailer with no a/c in Oklahoma

[@FCm-tq2ho]

The same local politicians who claim to love you tell you in your face that we we're building affordable housing....😂

[@BilldoeTruth]

Affordable housingermshellteracisim staff are dangerous be careful 😢⚕️😷🤢👎🙏

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Politrick

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Sellout politicians

[@nikkinonames5265]

They're called DEMOCRATS!!

[@nfn4]

If the rent is set for $100-$2500 monthly, it will still be unaffordable to some who have no jobs, no profession, or those who just don't want to work. How can anyone fix that. Do we really believe that there's some kind of job available for everyone in this country? I definitely don't think so.

[@saudigold50]

People are lazy

[@ke5146]

You think that’s the entire bx I make up 100k I seen those rent range it’s not affordable after factor net income with other expense.

[@househead67]

"I'll give it a thumbs up"...Please keep that same energy when you're getting a thumbs down for not being able to pay your rent anymore. 💯

[@usereEyez8890]

Exactly!

[@onemanzerosquad5591]

Bronx is the last affordable borough.

[@bkhustler]

I think Staten Island but it's the most distant borough.

[@adamblack6867]

It was luxurious buildings going up all over the Bronx and white people

[@JayCail]

@@adamblack6867 whites move in the neighborhoods become safer .. but you can't say that or your raycisssss!!! When whites move in it's gentrification and the fake outrage accompanies it. When whites move out and the neighborhood is overrun by crime and rap music then the whites are also blamed for "white flight" ...

[@libatako]

I will say this…if you’re buying property to fix and sell, for a business, or just a house….for the morris park and parkchester areas in the Bronx…BUY NOW, because once that metro north station project starts getting built and finished…prices will skyrocket. Prices are insane now, but wait and see after that train gets built.

[@cliffcliff6358]

💯💯💯💯💯

[@mrmrso228]

Metro North is going to ruin Morris Park. The state/city couldn't just put in the train station. Now it's going to slap up hundreds of apartments, shoving people into a low density area. Yet my basement floods every time there's a downpour.

[@bkhustler]

@@mrmrso228 buy pumps or divert some water from gutter to street.

[@mrmrso228]

@@bkhustlernot the point. Since all of this building has starred, this has become an issue. A street collapsed on Radcliff due to this. The city cannot keep slapping up these buildings without fixing the infrastructure first.

[@chairmanofthebored8684]

@@mrmrso228 #learnedhelplessness

[@JerryG-g7d]

Only a very small section of the Bronx is getting gentrified. The whole Brooklyn n queens is gentrified

[@superhuman67]

I live in Queens and it looks like a 3rd world country. Mental dangerous homeless sleeping all over the streets and in the subway stations, illegals occupying all the new buildings that have opened all around south Jamaica. I don't see any regular tenets living in the new buildings just illegals living for free. I don't see any gentrification in Queens.

[@xavilopez4716]

Then Bronx is too dam crowded with all these new buildings they making parking has become a nightmare. Traffic jams everywhere. 20 years ago is was more easier to get around in the Bronx not anymore

[@alexanderbdavila]

Left the boogie down 11 years ago, purchased a house in Atlanta and then another rental property a number of years later. It is so much affordable here, but things are catching up just like everywhere else. You can never truly escape inflation forever, you just have to beat it or slow it down as much as you can. As much as I miss the Bronx, it is all part of the growth to move up or move out. I choose to move out for better quality of life.

[@SoSikWitIt]

ATL is the most gentrified city in america rn thats why in atl its so high now its becoming just like nyc i know u seen them million dollar bevely hills style houses in the hood

[@amgooder]

😱 not the Boogie down Bronx!!!!!! Rich foreigner investors taking over! !

[@marz1054]

I been living in NYC my whole life I’m not moving anywhere! I’m going to just continue to grind legal or illegal 💯

[@moses1655]

Bruhhhhh🙏🏼💪🏽shoutout to all The holdouts the hardheads the ones who refuse to move to hot as florida or sad ass Pennsylvania....

[@bookjameslive79]

Who came up with the idea on what affordable they need to remove and abolish that if you go to housing connect most of it is out of reach for most people that’s what they deem affordable. How many people is making over $100,000 a year

[@coreymerricksterling1699]

The Bronx has been already suffering for the last past four decades how much more suffering does it need?

[@danieldelacruz7305]

It should be illegal to name your buildings luxury and also price their rents high!!!

[@CaraMarie13]

Boy, Mott Haven has really dramatically changed. No one in the bronx us against development and investment in the area. And these buildings really do have a good mix of income, but the reality is that's just not enough housing available, specifically for the rock bottom incomes the poorest families in these cities are working with. Thankfully, the Bronx also has a large stock of rent stabilized apartments, and people got the memo about not trying to move out in this housing market.

[@irisfigueroa5882]

That's why also a lot of ppl stay in the projects

[@Tedmosby97]

although nyc is a city where job mobility up is up, most people don't take advantage on self-improvement when they are young.

[@truthseekingtroll3575]

Blame rent control, zoning and expensive building code requirements that are destroying the supply of new housing.

[@Robbie-mw5uu]

building code is literally the bare minimum of human dwelling requirements whenever I hear someone complain about building code, all I hear is "if I could make you live in a roach infested den I would"

[@bkhustler]

Bronx is cheaper than all the boroughs except Staten Island. There is a lot of new housing stock already constructed or being developed in the Bronx. I've noticed many of the new buildings have "affordable housing units". I predict these certain landlords are developing and renting "affordable" for now because in due time those tenants will be swapped out for Jim the Gentrifiers coming in droves and the buildings with amenities or near train stations is where they will concentrate. Also note new Metro North stops coming to the Bronx and how that will transform the areas around those stations. Sad times.

[@doublepromo8240]

This has been happening in New Jersey, along the corridor of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne.

[@adamblack6867]

They consider $2500 for a small studio affordable

[@TheOtherKine]

They knew this was coming 20 years ago, it was so obvious, so many derelict and cheap buildings and empty places, why is anybody surprised????

[@BattleRidesNYC]

Keeping rent at 30% for everyone isn’t going to work for everyone. How is a person making 30K a year suppose to afford a one bedroom at 2k a month when they are probably making at least 1.6k per month? I make about 52K per year and I can’t even afford a one bedroom. If rent is capped at 30% the max rent I’m supposed to be able to afford is 1.3k per month. Thats more than what I make every two weeks.

[@agthaog1986]

lets b honest, this been happening 2 other boros for damn near over a decade now. it hit the bronx but still it aint no where near like other boros

[@roderickstockdale1678]

*COUGH*Manhattan*COUGH*Brooklyn.

[@ZoraDelaney]

Why are folks CHOOSING to have children, when they can't even provide a decent living standard for themselves? 🤔

[@tonymanzo3766]

What about a neighborhood that wasn’t considered rough or ghetto, where many working class people live without the crime element, there’s a couple of such neighborhoods, Morris park, van nest, country club throggs neck were considered good and somewhat still the case, how do you gentrify a good neighborhood, riverdale is a place that is too rich for the gentrified crowd to invade.

[@wileecoyote5749]

Pelham Bay is completely destroyed. Very Castle Hillish now

[@kwbaby4297]

Idk how it got to that level.

[@serenahappy5763]

​@@kwbaby4297, gentrification. They are running people out of other parts of the Bronx.

[@Asvpsupreme]

Pelham bay is like castle HILL? Nah 😂 no way

[@theonly1258]

Yes gentrification has caused increased prices in everything, ….rents…restaurants…groceries and there’s a lack of community, neighborhood feeling, very transient….not only BX but BK as well…..

[@Mario87189]

The Bronx is changing but it wasn’t great I lived there from 2013-2023 and I think the higher prices will get rid of the ghetto and ratchetness that were part of the reason for my move to Staten Island . No dramas in SI

[@asapdiesel1395]

Why is everybody blaming the government and not the companies that should be paying these people a livable wage?

[@Fellow287]

Get your money up Carla

[@blackwolverine1]

For real!!

[@bxrokk]

He who owns the land makes the rules. When you're poor, you do what you're told.

[@disaster1100able]

Buy a house/condo/coop and stop paying rent. Own people the only way to live good in NY

[@Pou1gie1]

They should also develop strategies for ppl who live there to be able to BUY too! Work with the banks to develop a strategy for these ppl to get in on the ground level and see their property (condo, town home, etc.) grow in value over the next couple decades.

[@itseveryday8600]

That's what happened in London. Poor working class people became asset rich with gentrification, of previously poor&dangerous neighborhoods (particularly east-London), because they were home owners.

[@chuckiea7011]

The lowest of the lowest income of New York City residents cannot afford to live anywhere in the city. There is an extreme lack of housing where a one bedroom runs under $1,000 a month

[@chriszenko3598]

The Bronx was once the nicest borough in NYC. It declined in the early 1960s On youtube you can see videos how it use to look

[@AgnieskaVa]

It was like that in Brooklyn . I was born in 93 and I rmm how ghetto it was in the neighborhood . I rmm kids would be playing by the fire hydrant and play baseball in the middle of the street . My dad would use his car to wash there by the fire hydrant. Streets was cracked and there was some random chickens . But over time in the 2000s I was seven in that time . They tried to clear it out the chickens (which they did ) in the field that used to have a big wide field with tall grass. Then they had build this new comcast nearby my neighborhood . Over time eveything has changed when I came to visit . Nothing isn’t the same as before . I just know they want to kick out the poor people so they can take the area . But it is what it is sigh.

[@HPD-wv8qu]

Crime might be going down

[@BtterflyLove]

Only by prayers.

[@Militantreturns]

Lol

[@OBITOMAJIN]

@@BtterflyLove😂😂

[@gabepizza]

But but but I thought NYC was a third world hellhole and everyone is leaving

[@mson185]

How dare you expose the agenda?

[@HappyBeeTV-BeeHappy]

I like it. I can move on up like George and Weezy and still stay in the Bronx.

[@th0rn3gaming]

Bro the Bronx was a nightmare in the 90's..... does anyone remember the Bronx in the 70's and 80's? If not look it up.... of course it's being gentrified with new housing.... there were building collapses throughout the decades of outdated construction buildings from the 1800's and early 1900's. It makes sense, this is a typical migration problem for humans.

[@SamMcKinley]

I’d like to try the Mexican French fusion. Interesting. I’m glad for him

[@jb9940]

Of course lala the flight attended disagrees😂 being shes a flight attended im sure shes a single person who can afford the affordable 1 bedroom… we talkin about familys not being able to afford not no single person cmon man😭

[@creativemindplay]

Don't have children if you can't afford it

[@creativemindplay]

Flight attendants make very modest incomes

[@crazyworld2570]

​@@creativemindplay🤡The rising cost of everything except salaries people who could afford can no longer keep up.

[@blongshanks77]

That’s Capitalism for you.

[@grimsonforce7504]

Families get plenty of assistance while singles don't. Stop having kids if you can't afford them.

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

It is happening in the major cities of the United States. Gentrification displaces people that lived all their lives are now being forced to leave because of the high rents and people cannot afford it anymore. It is a shame.

[@JonathanLomax-d4y]

I hate the Bronx with a passion. I’ll be so glad to move to queens or Brooklyn. And when I do move, I’ll never look back at the Bronx ( no shade ) !!!!!!….

[@DBONPC]

@@JonathanLomax-d4y Good luck trying to afford it in Queens or Brooklyn either it's just as bad if not more expensive there

[@shawnhall9792]

😂 as if Brooklyn or queens are any better goodbye we don't need ya

[@shawnhall9792]

​@DBONPC it's definitely more expensive in those two boroughs lol homie acting like it's cheap

[@Militantreturns]

Lol

[@Rockstarmade224]

I love the Bronx

[@donjohn4910]

Crime in the bronx is still high

[@fireproximity4225]

Literally all of NYC, the random stabbings in the last week were in Manhattan

[@awill3992]

Anyone in the Bronx applauding this will be crying when they have to leave.

[@Anonymous-mv3my]

The bronx in the worst neighborhoods, small apartments, making families live in Squeezed in bedrooms, expensive & the government is not doing a thing about it to where one has to make the living room a bedroom to sleep smmfh

[@stevemcdonald6001]

Painful truth: most rentals are near flood zones, freeways, stripper bars and liquor stores... except the ones u can't afford.

[@MikeJones-wc4qj]

This lady Carla knows many people do have to move as this "progress" unfolds. Nebraska or Tennessee etc. Phoenix has this and Po Folk here have to Move to Texas and New Mexico etc.

[@jthomas1177]

These Rich people are really driving the regular working class out...people better start paying attention. Remember just because it may not affect you today doesn't mean you won't be affected tomorrow. keep ya head on a swivel folks, there's more to come!!!

[@Matthew-p2h]

It's very important that we have as many poor people as possible in NYC. We must do all we can to make sure as many poor people stay in NYC as possible.

[@Eazye166]

That area changed but the rent is high and crime is still crazy even though the new police station is in front of St. Mary’s park

[@dupesonlyanddrugstores7421]

😂😂😂 working poor in the Bronx what about the violence that’s been going on for like 30 something or more years they need to clean that up

[@aimightymatt256]

They expect you to work 2 jobs while having an online income like streaming/instagram with the whole family of at least 3 working as well

[@OBITOMAJIN]

I refuse lol not conforming to the rat race there’s always a different route to make the money happen ! Instagram & stuff makes ppl have no morals at all

[@saudigold50]

Yes. It is what one has to do to survive. If one does not want to run themselves ragged by working 2 jobs; then new skills are required so that one can do better financially.

[@rocksofoffence.righteousam2422]

There's a difference between "affordable", and 'inexpensive'! The term "Affordable" has become a huge gimmick

[@AceDriver2012]

Even in Philly we have a crap load of new luxury apartments only a few people are well off to afford it. I’m not sure who in the heck they are building these $2500+ apartments for. Maybe people with 4-5 friends/family to pay for it.

[@JAponte.iii.19]

They're building them for the flood of Californian's we're going to get on the eastcoast after the government goes to war with California over immigration. I suggest everyone from the east hold it down for their city and dont let outsiders in. Once they get here, it's over for the rest of us. We won't be able to afford to live. They can. People in Cali are used to these prices. We already see enough of these clowns in NJ and are whipping their assess right & left. We dont want them in our state, ruining minds and our politics with all that liberal/woke bs.

[@DrLaurelWeaver]

The Bronx needs all the saving it can get. Once all the Italians and Irish left, it went to shit

[@artistmi5361]

You Mean once Robert Moses came in and ruined it by building highways in turn depleting the property values also causing landlords burndown countless apartment buildings. You should do your research before typing baseless comments

[@alexro2482]

Facts!!!

[@DrLaurelWeaver]

@@artistmi5361 Sure tell yourself that. I saw the change first hand as I never left.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@DrLaurelWeaverwhat are you, doctor?

[@thisis.michelletorres444]

A lot of these buildings are in neighborhoods I would not live in for free! Morris Park where the gentlemen bought a local for his business is still quite nice.

[@JosephFontanez]

Landlords in this neighborhood are charging exorbitant rents and there is zero police presence here. A 14 year old was stabbed and killed this past Friday and there has been a string of cars getting their windows smashed and broken into on a daily basis. Not to mention cars having their tires stolen and left on cinder blocks. Buyer beware.

[@errolthomas9426]

These days everything is all about money unfortunately

[@HPeezy1]

Good luck to the Bronx residents. It will get worse for the Bronxites living check to check. All those beautiful "luxury" buildings come at a cost, rising rents!

[@NOTTODAY0009]

Gentrification gets the unsavory people out, but it makes it unaffordable for the decent people who live in the area.

[@fluffydoge2869]

The Bronx needs to be fixed.

[@crowleywilliam1]

Lived in the Bronx great apartments huge

[@MarioOliveira-p5q]

They’re tricky about. In dc the people wouldn’t want to sell in south east. But then they would give them very large homes in more suburban and rural areas around dc. But that was only the first stage. Once they get enough people out they can drive up the prices in the city. And then they’re building lots of apartments in the rural areas where they got people to buy houses before.

[@Babu-kr3cr]

Luxury is where you go on vacation. For a place to live, you just want decent and affordable. Less fancy is better. You just want a place to get the business of sleeping, eating and relaxing. You can go to the gym or dog groomer on your own, you don't need that in your apartment complex. It is so annoying how all of these luxury units are basically exactly the same with no character. It is like a chain of Holiday Inns taking over the world instead of individual buildings with their own features. Even though the luxury aspect seems nice with extra space, new appliances, nice cabinets or whatever makes them so special, I think having a basic place that you can afford comfortably is the biggest draw in terms of desirability. Affordable housing is a housing project where anyone can get in. It is a rooming or boarding house where you don't need a background check and references, you are just let in with an ID. These new places are very selective and only a few lower income people can get in and not all can even qualify.

[@daviddinkins7009]

Affordable for who?

[@Nadsmomo]

Wow we moved from the Bronx in 2009. Now I’m in Yonkers. The houses are so expensive and they have a fancy bakery in high ridge plaza and it’s always crowded Yonkers used to be lower income when I moved there in 1988. Whenever u go there is a Starbucks or coffee shop. What I don’t get how can people afford it and still pay their mortgage or rent.

[@TiffanyTolliver-y2b]

I ❤ living in the Bronx,I always love to live uptown better then living downtown because it is in the heart of everything and not far to get to other things.they have also built a lot of new buildings in the Bronx over the years that are really nice.

[@ICastro-o9u]

It’s a terrifying reality 💔

[@eugenedavis6792]

That's what woke are calling difference between the rich & poor, nothing but labeling! i miss the days when we called it like we see it and no one take it personally; back then people had backbones.

[@rexquintonchief5666]

White people ain't moving to the Bronx it's absolutely wildest in some parts, unless they're from Riverdale or Fordham. 😂

[@roderickstockdale1678]

What about Co-Op?

[@rexquintonchief5666]

@roderickstockdale1678 Yeah but it's not a lot cuzz.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@rexquintonchief5666 you should have just said Pelham parkway instead of Fordham since it’s just that part. They’re not moving to Webster, the concourse or Jerome. Definitely not west Bronx it’s all east of the university.

[@Asvpsupreme]

Fordham is not all good either

[@Asvpsupreme]

@@roderickstockdale1678there’s white ppl in co-op already

[@bookjameslive79]

U guys should have panels from all communities but good reporting keep up the good work

[@RonaldGreene-w2y]

It's been happening all over the city

[@donniemoder1466]

People have been getting priced out of The Bronx for years. Is Ruben Diaz, Jr. just doing what every former high ranking NYC pol does, transfer to the private sector real estate development job. That's what they all seem to do.

[@nathanielsingleton6302]

“SOBRO”, Downtown Brooklyn, L.I.C. = Manhattan Extension. 🤨

[@greendesertgoddess]

That word Affordable . . .

[@greendesertgoddess]

. . . Affordable for whom? The qualifications change constantly and is why homelessness never decreases. Rent should be no more than a third of one's income . . .