dataset · HPD via NYC Open Data

HPD Affordable Housing Production

Every affordable housing project the city has produced under Housing New York and successor programs. Unit counts segmented by AMI band — extremely low / very low / low / moderate / middle income — exposing what "affordable" actually means in the city's official totals.

data through 2026-05-19 · 9,250 buildings

cumulative units · since program inception

Affordable units financed by borough

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The "twenty-seven months in the Bronx" story digs into the lease-up gap between construction completion and actual occupancy — the bureaucratic bottleneck that suppresses affordable housing availability for years after the building is physically done.

Schema · 41 columns

project_id string
project_name string
project_start_date date
project_completion_date date
building_id number
house_number string
street_name string
borough string
postcode number
bbl number
bin number
community_board string
council_district number
census_tract string
neighborhood_tabulation_area string
latitude number
longitude number
latitude_internal number
longitude_internal number
building_completion_date date
reporting_construction_type string
extended_affordability_status string
prevailing_wage_status string
extremely_low_income_units number
very_low_income_units number
low_income_units number
moderate_income_units number
middle_income_units number
other_income_units number
studio_units number
_1_br_units number
_2_br_units number
_3_br_units number
_4_br_units number
_5_br_units number
_6_br_units number
unknown_br_units number
counted_rental_units number
counted_homeownership_units number
all_counted_units number
total_units number

Source: NYC Open Data
Endpoint: data.cityofnewyork.us / hg8x-zxpr

Stories using this data

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Twenty-seven months in the Bronx

A 180-unit affordable building was complete in 2022. Eighteen months after the lottery had closed and the waitlist filled, no one had moved in. The lease-up bottleneck that suppresses affordable housing availability for years after construction is physically done.