Crowdsourcing the location of vacant apartments

 City Watch:  Live Next to a Vacant Apartment? This Housing Group Wants to Know

by David Brand, November 28, 2022.

In the absence of specific data, the housing organization Open New York has launched a project asking everyday residents to crowdsource the locations of vacant apartments - rent-stabilized and unregulated units alike - to paint a more complete picture

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In the absence of specific data, the housing organization Open New York has launched a project asking everyday residents to crowdsource the locations of vacant apartments—rent-stabilized and unregulated units alike—to paint a more complete picture. A similar initiative is underway from the Coalition to End Apartment Warehousing, which has honed in on regulated units.