Episode Details

Host, David R. Jones, President of the Community Service Society of New York, discusses New York City's housing with Joe Weisbord, Staff Director for Housing First, and Ronald Shiffman, Professor at the Pratt Institute and Director and Co-Founder of the Pratt Center for Community and Environmental Development. Weisbord and Shiffman explain the issues facing New York City housing, including rising housing costs, stagnant incomes for middle- and lower-class New Yorkers, dropping housing production, and an all-time low in government involvement in production and preservation of NYC housing.