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New York’s 485-x Is Teaching Developers to Stay Below 100 Apartments at a Time

In New York City, 485-x is one of the few tools capable of restarting rental construction at a meaningful scale. It is also widely misunderstood because policymakers and developers experience the same incentive in fundamentally different ways. For policymakers, 485-x is a housing production program.

Source: Commercial Observer

In New York City, 485-x is one of the few tools capable of restarting rental construction at a meaningful scale. It is also widely misunderstood because policymakers and developers experience the same incentive in fundamentally different ways. For policymakers, 485-x is a housing production program. For developers, it is a feasibility framework whose thresholds determine […]

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