Shelterforce | For the Many
In the first couple years of the pandemic, Kingston had become the housing market with the most quickly increasing home prices in the country, according to the National Association of Realtors, as cited by multiple news sources. Rents were likewise rising stratospherically. This year, the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Kingston was $1,872—a 46.1 percent increase since Soto moved to the city. For many of Kingston’s residents, that’s enough to price them out of their homes. Though the area’s median income is about three-quarters that of New York City’s, it also has a poverty rate 40 percent higher, at 18.5 percent; 23 percent for families with children