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Paul Krugman: What’s the matter with New York? Too little housing

It’s high housing costs, not crime or taxes, that is driving people away.

(Zach Gross | The New York Times) Intersecting reflections of the Empire State Building and other buildings in plate-glass windows, in New York, July 22, 2022. The cost of housing, not crime or taxes, is the biggest reason people might want to leave New York, writes the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.