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Friday Fast Fact: Bushwick Has One of the Highest Rates of Serious Housing Violations in NYC

We dig into publicly available to data to see how housing issues are plaguing the neighborhood.

Friday Fast Fact: Bushwick Has One of the Highest Rates of Serious Housing Violations in NYC

Friday Fast Fact: Bushwick Has One of the Highest Rates of Serious Housing Violations in NYC

We dig into publicly available to data to see how housing issues are plaguing the neighborhood.

Friday Fast Fact: Bushwick Has One of the Highest Rates of Serious Housing Violations in NYC
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Being a tenant in Bushwick isn’t easy.

Rents are rising at some of the fastest rates in all of NYC and more than a few of the neighborhood’s property owners are driving out longtime residents in an effort to make room for new, higher-paying renters. On top of all of that, it turns out that Bushwick is also home to one of the highest rates of serious housing violations in the city.

According to data from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and presented by the NYU Furman Center , Bushwick had 101.7 serious housing violations…

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