It is in the process of hiring three full - time staffers and interns and plans to release a «groundbreaking» report next
month about affordability, according to its website.
Not exact matches
Rising mortgage rates have been a reality for the past few
months, and the increases have some potential homebuyers worrying
about affordability.
And, it seems, the community's concerns
about being priced out of neighborhoods targeted by the de Blasio administration as oases of
affordability are not idle: The Wall Street Journal reports that land prices in East New York, named by de Blasio as the first neighborhood that would be studied for denser development, have nearly tripled during the first nine
months of 2012, rising from $ 32 per square foot last year to $ 93 per square foot this year.
Toronto's housing market shot into the stratosphere over the ensuing
months, prompting the Ontario government to put in place a nearly identical measure (city council in Victoria, concerned
about an
affordability crisis, debated but ultimately rejected a foreign buyer tax recently).