Housing costs are major burden for Long Islanders
Poll: Housing costs are major burden for Long Islanders
A majority of Long Island residents say they have trouble making monthly rent or mortgage payments and may move to an area with lower housing costs and property taxes, according to a new poll.
The Rauch Foundation poll said 56 percent of those surveyed said they were likely to move in the next five years in 2005, up from 45 percent in 2004. Fifty-four percent of Long Islanders reported difficulty making monthly rent or mortgage payments in 2005, up from 47 percent in 2004, the poll found.
Some 1,215 Long Island residents were interviewed by telephone between June 7 and August 1 for the poll, part of the foundation's Long Island Index reports on public policy issues. The survey, released Thursday, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
The full text of the Long Island Index report can be found here:
Long Island Index 2005 - PDF
Caveat Emptor!
Grim
A majority of Long Island residents say they have trouble making monthly rent or mortgage payments and may move to an area with lower housing costs and property taxes, according to a new poll.
The Rauch Foundation poll said 56 percent of those surveyed said they were likely to move in the next five years in 2005, up from 45 percent in 2004. Fifty-four percent of Long Islanders reported difficulty making monthly rent or mortgage payments in 2005, up from 47 percent in 2004, the poll found.
Some 1,215 Long Island residents were interviewed by telephone between June 7 and August 1 for the poll, part of the foundation's Long Island Index reports on public policy issues. The survey, released Thursday, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
The full text of the Long Island Index report can be found here:
Long Island Index 2005 - PDF
Caveat Emptor!
Grim
8 Comments:
The New York times did a similar piece a couple of years ago discussing how young people were fleeing LI because of housing costs.
The article went on to discuss that the younger brighter folks were the population that they were losing. Thus, threatening the vitality of businesses located there.
For those against affordable housing, be careful what you wish for it can kill the local economy.
Hey, leave Long Island alone. Please keep your cynical focus on NNJ. Thanks
My interest in Long Island is only in it's value as a proxy for Northern NJ.
grim
New Home Sales numbers out at 10:00am tomorrow morning (Friday).
grim
Great Blog!
It's not only Long Island!
Looks like the San Diego real estate market has done a 180 turn and is now on the verge of a multi-year decline!
http://www.downtown-san-diego-real-estate.com/san-diego-real-estate-article.htm
Richard said,
"I don't get the whole LI thing. it's a peninsula, all flat and there's zero culture there."
I don't mean to be picky but it is an island. NJ is a peninsula as it is attached it one point to the mainland and is surrounded on 3 sides by water.
I agree with everything else.
Pete
Hey, leave Long Island alone. Please keep your cynical focus on NNJ. Thanks
LOL! What a scream! Hey, if your comfortable paying 750K for a POS with 12K in property taxes, who am I to judge.
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