Tag: housing costs

Uptick in Long Island’s Housing Hides Real Concern: High Cost of Living

by Richard Murdocco | Jul 6, 2015 | Housing | 0

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...

The Cost of Living, Price of Inaction

by Richard Murdocco | Mar 13, 2014 | Economic Development | 0

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...