Quoted in Newsday: Feeling the Squeeze – Taxes on Long Island Making Home Ownership Unaffordable For Many
The following excerpts are from articles by Jonathan LaMantia, Rachel Weiss, and Craig Schneider....
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Tag: Cost of Living
Newsday’s NextLI: What We Should Do About the Future
The following was written for nextLI, a project launched by Newsday that is funded by the Rauch Foundation. nextLI is managed by Newsday’s Opinion department with input from an advisory board made up of Long Islanders. It was...
Read MoreUptick in Long Island’s Housing Hides Real Concern: High Cost of Living
The following was written for the Long Island Press. You can read the original here. Long Island is experiencing a welcome renewed boom of housing construction. But are we pricing out the region’s young families by building...
Read MoreAll Style, No Substance
It would seem to an outsider after reading recent headlines in various local and regional newspapers that Long Island is short on high paying jobs, yet has surplus amounts of taxes to go around. To make matters worse, the roads...
Read MoreThe Cost of Living, Price of Inaction
It’s expensive to live on Long Island, but Long Islanders already knew that. Now what? According to the New York State Office of the Comptroller, in 2012, 43.9 percent of homeowners in Nassau County and 43.7 percent of...
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