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84M

The amount of square feet of land owned by faith-based organizations in New York City, the equivalent to 13% of Manhattan’s land mass.

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30,000 new homes

The potential opportunity of utilizing 25 million square feet of currently unused zoning across health-and hospital owned properties.

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500 feet

For every 10 percent increase to the housing stock that new high rises added within a 500-ft ring, residential rents for high- and medium-rent buildings within that ring decreased by 1 percent.

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“The affordability crisis is especially salient today, but the crisis results from limits on new construction in place for many decades. The problem will not be solved overnight. But the speed with which appropriate reforms are implemented to allow additional supply, along with protections against any harm new construction may cause, really matters, both to those struggling to afford housing today, and to future generations.”

NYU Furman Center’s Co-Faculty Director Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Katherine O’Regan, “Supply Skepticism Revisited"

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