Cities across the U.S. that aim to build new housing often run into fierce community opposition from Nimbys, who object to new development in “my backyard.”
But one commuter town outside New York City is slicing through red tape and building thousands of new apartments.
New Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 new housing units over the past decade. Another 6,500 units are either in the pipeline or the planning stages for the next several years. Those 11,000 new units would represent a 37% increase in the number of New Rochelle apartments compared with 10 years ago.
About a 40-minute train ride to Midtown Manhattan, this suburb of more than 85,000 remains one of the few places offering relative affordability in the notoriously expensive New York City metro area.
