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Housing: Downtown Housing
American psychologist Maslow named this as one of the most basic needs, grouped into "Physiological" needs, "housing" or as Maslow phased it, "shelter". These needs must be met first and include: (Breathing), Water, Food, Sleep, Clothing, Shelter, and Sex [Ref. Maslow]. How would a downtown hospital impact the citizens of Utica's housing and housing costs? What if the hospital was placed at St. Luke's and or no brand new faculty was built? A terribly important questions when one looks at Utica's Demographics.
December 2, 2018 - Reads like Utica, this article Some cities are facing a very different housing crisis states...
"In America's Rust Belt and parts of the Northeast, millennials and young professionals are leaving rather than moving in, and populations there are dwindling. Among those who remain, both the residents and the houses are aging. There is no shortage of homes in Akron, Ohio, for example. But most of them are old, too many sit vacant, and hundreds of abandoned houses are torn down each year. Akron's population has dipped from nearly 300,000 residents in the early 1960s to fewer than 200,000 today."
Interesting article, so does Utica need "Residential Tax Abatement Programs"?
Opportunity Zones - Residents are key to Downtown Utica's rebirth. Attracting residents has been occurring, but hospital is not a concept that helps. Cuomo's Opportunity Zones should be used to further this, as opposed to an out-of-scale, inner-city, hospital district.
Final Recommended Maps are shown as. Search the Mohawk Valley Tracts on Census.gov's "Tigerweb"...
36065026400, 264, Oneida East Utica, Oneida Street
36065020102, 201.02, Oneida Utica, along Rt. 5A (U District)
36065020300, 203, Oneida, Downtown Utica
36065020900, 209, Oneida, Utica
March 29, 2017 - Read Utica housing project news, Governor Cuomo Announces Groundbreaking of $13.8 Million Project to Build 42 Affordable Housing Units in Utica.
July 6, 2015 - Article titled Affordable Housing, Always offers, "Gentrification is pushing long-term residents out of urban neighborhoods. Can collective land ownership keep prices down permanently?"
Housing References
Binghamton, September 2017: Broome County Housing Study
Downtown Utica, 2005: Residential Market Potential, Utica Zimmerman-Volk Study
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