NYC communities with the most and least new housing created by 2024
NEW YORK (PIX11) – A housing database by the New York City Department of City Planning shows that nearly 34,000 new homes were created in the last year but it also shows disparities in where those homes were developed.
DCP Housing Database shows that 33,974 new homes were completed in 2024, the most units completed in a single year since 1965. However, of the 59 community districts in New York City, only 10 of them permitted as much housing as the other 49 combined.
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Data released by the Department of City Planning shows a map of housing units completed in each community district between 2010 and 2024.
Brooklyn saw the most amount of completed developments with multiple new homes created in five community districts. Queens had the second-highest amount of new housing in three districts. Manhattan and the Bronx both only had one community district with a sizable amount of new housing created.
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A further breakdown of the data shows the following neighborhoods had the most amount of housing units completed in 2024.
Long Island City – Hunters Point
Greenpoint
Jamaica
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO
Financial District
Williamsburg
Hell's Kitchen
East Williamsburg
Queensbridge-Ravenswood
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Conversely, 19 community districts, primarily those in Manhattan, allowed for less than 100 new homes. Some of those neighborhoods included Greenwich Village, Hudson Square, Little Italy, NoHo, SoHo, West Village, Inwood and Washington Heights.
Additionally Manhattan community district five, only completed 19 new homes in the last year. Those neighborhoods include Union Square, Flatiron, Gramercy, Midtown South and Times Square.
Dominique Jack is a digital content producer from Brooklyn with more than five years of experience covering news. She joined PIX11 in 2024. More of her work can be found here.
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