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Readers shared their reflections on how to combat the affordability crisis. Here are ideas.
By James Barron
Hello. It is Monday. Today, we are going to look at the concepts of some readers to make New York city more affordable and habitable.
Is New York City running out of ideas to solve its affordability crisis? That was the question behind a recent Times story that focused on a related question: What could be done to break the logjam and lower the city’s sky-high cost of living?
My colleague Eliza Shapiro asked dozens of New Yorkers. Among them, economists, educators, food delivery personnel and experts in social.
Along the way, it has transparent that the response to the first consultation was no, New York has little ideas.
Here is more proof of that. After publishing Eliza’s article under the headline “40 Big Ideas to Make New York City More Affordable,” we asked readers to send us their ideas. What follows are nine of them. Makaelah Walters edited and condensed them for clarity.
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