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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by jefftk on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:08PM (#22086357)
I found total construction numbers: ~25k new units in 2017, depending on how you count (https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/rentguidelinesboard/pdf/18HSR.pd...)

That's only about 0.3% housing growth.

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by jefftk on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#22086693)
Sorry, I used 8M people as the denominator for growth instead of 3.5M units, so it's more like 0.7%
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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by jefftk on Saturday January 18, 2020 @03:54PM (#22087123)
Expanded this into a post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/is-nyc-building-much-housing
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