NEW YORK, April 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Key facts:
- New York City renters are
expected to spend 65.2 percent of their income on rent in 2016, up
from 59.7 percent in 2015.
- Brooklyn remains the city's
most rent-burdened borough, with residents expected to spend 65.4
percent of their income on rent in 2016.
- The rent burden for Queens households will increase the most,
where the median rent-to-income ratio is expected to jump from 43.5
percent in 2015 to 51.6 percent in 2016.
- Manhattan renters will see
slight relief in their rent burden; it is the only borough where
the rent-to-income ratio is expected to decline, from 49.5 percent
in 2015 to 49.1 percent in 2016.
As rent growth in New York City
continues to outpace income growth, many residents will have to
devote more of their income to rent in the coming
yeari. New York
City renters are expected to spend nearly two-thirds (65.2
percent) of their income on rent in 2016, up from 59.7 percent in
2015, according to StreetEasy®'s new annual report, the State of
New York City Rent Affordabilityii.
New Yorkers in four of the five boroughs can expect to face a
higher rent burden in 2016 than last yeariii.
Brooklyn continues to be the least
affordable borough, where renters can expect to spend 65.4 percent
of their income on rent, followed by the Bronx (54.1 percent). However, Queens renters
are expected to see the greatest increase in the typical rent
burden among all boroughs. Between 2015 and 2016, the amount of
income Queens renters are projected to spend on rent will increas
from 43.5 percent to 51.6 percent. Manhattan follows shortly behind Queens with a
median rent-to-income ratio of 49.1 percent in 2016. Staten Island is the only borough in the city
to be considered affordable for renters, with a median
rent-to-income ratios of 27.9 percent in 2016iv.
Renters in East Brooklyn, Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx are spending more of their incomes
on rent compared with renters in other neighborhoods. In
Manhattanville, for example, the median rent-to-income ratio is
forecasted to reach 119.5 percent in 2016, meaning the median rent
is far greater than the typical household's total annual income.
Chinatown, Little Italy, Mott Haven and North New York all have median rent-to-income
ratios greater than 100 percent.
"With a rental vacancy rate below 3.5 percent, the supply of
rental housing across the city is extremely low, which places
upward pressure on prices and even more competition among renters.
There's policy momentum in place here, but addressing the supply
side is only half the battle. No other factor is more fundamental
to the city's growing rent burden than lagging income growth," says
StreetEasy data scientist Alan Lightfeldt. "Until income growth
catches up with rent growth, the rent affordability problem will
loom large on New York
households."
Conversely, Manhattan is the
only borough where renters will see a smaller rent burden this
year, primarily because Manhattan's forecasted income growth (1.0
percent) exceeds the forecasted growth in median rent price (0.2
percent). As a result, the median rent-to-income ratio in
Manhattan is projected to decline
slightly from 49.5 percent in 2015 to 49.1 percent in 2016.
The complete StreetEasy State of New York City Rent
Affordability Report with additional analysis, neighborhood data
and graphics can be viewed at
streeteasy.com/blog/new-york-city-rent-affordability-2016/.
|
2016 Median
Rent-to-Income Ratio
|
2015 Median
Rent-to-Income Ratio
|
Rent-to-Income
Ratio Change
|
2016 Median Rent
Forecast
|
2016 Median Income
Forecast
|
New York
City
|
65.2%
|
59.7%
|
5.5 points
|
$3,054
|
$56,244
|
Manhattan
|
49.1%
|
49.5%
|
-0.4
points
|
$3,205
|
$78,340
|
Brooklyn
|
65.4%
|
61.8%
|
3.7 points
|
$2,689
|
$49,321
|
Queens
|
51.6%
|
43.5%
|
8.1 points
|
$2,503
|
$58,225
|
Bronx
|
54.1%
|
53.2%
|
0.9 points
|
$1,529
|
$33,898
|
Staten
Island
|
27.9%
|
26.6%
|
1.3 points
|
$1,682
|
$72,280
|
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i According to StreetEasy forecasts, the median
household income is expected to grow by 0.8 percent to $56,244 in 2016. The median asking rent is
expected to grow by 10.1 percent to $3,054. Median asking rent for each neighborhood
in 2015 is based on all rental listings on StreetEasy throughout
2015. Using several years' worth of rent data, we forecasted median
asking rent for each neighborhood in 2016 using a standard
auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model. Similarly,
we forecasted median household incomes in 2015 and 2016 by using
the employment cost index (ECI) to adjust 2014 ACS 1-year estimates
from the U.S. Census.
ii StreetEasy's State of New York City Rent
Affordability Report is a comprehensive annual report that
forecasts the rent burden New York
City residents can expect to face in the coming year. The
report includes the most updated rent-to-income ratios for
New York City based on historical
census and rent price data. The report covers all five boroughs
with data available down to the submarket and neighborhood
level.
iii Rent burden is determined by an area's
rent-to-income ratio, or the amount of annual household income
spent on rent. All 2016 rent-to-income ratios are based on
StreetEasy forecasts of median asking rent and median household
income. The rent-to-income ratio listed is for each borough and
neighborhood is calculated by dividing the forecasted annual median
asking rent by the forecasted median household income.
iv According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the
conventional public policy for housing affordability is that
housing expenditures that exceed 30 percent of household income
have historically been viewed as an indicator of a housing
affordability problem.
https://www.census.gov/housing/census/publications/who-can-afford.pdf
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