Posted on March 9, 2016 by Jim Zarroli in NPR NPR, By Jim Zarroli Over the past few decades, New York City has become safer, richer and a lot more crowded than it used to be. All over Manhattan these days, you can see apartment buildings going up — and yet finding a decent place to live has become tougher than ever. “We are in an official housing crisis, period, in New York City,” says Alicia Glen, New York City’s deputy mayor for housing and development. “Our population is growing much more rapidly than our housing stock and so we have a really imbalanced housing market.”
