NYC Rent-Stabilized Households: Income and Rent
Public-use microdata from the article “Who gets the rent freeze”
Not synthetic. Disclosure-protected survey records published by a government statistical agency, cut to the people or households we looked at.
- Records
- Public-use microdata
- Place
- New York City
- Version
- 1.0,
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0; code MIT
- Built for
- Who gets the rent freeze (version 1.0)
A rent freeze can't pick its tenants, and how its value splits depends on the yardstick: in dollars, better-off households get a little more than their share, because they pay higher rents; against income, the poorest gain the most. Three in ten stabilized households earn six figures, and two in three with any income fall below 80% of HUD's income limit for their household size.
The article's own data file, microdata cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: 2023 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey public use files (incomes for 2022), with every survey since 1993 for the long view; Rent Guidelines Board Orders #1 to #58, for leases from 1968 to 2027.
Files
| File | Rows | Size | What it holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| data.csv | 6,659 | 781 KB | The microdata the article's figures are computed from. |
| analysis.py | 65 KB | The script that computes every figure in the article (MIT). |
Columns
data.csv: The data (20 columns)
control, weight_FW, group, borough, income_2022, income_band, income_pct_of_hud_limit_fy2023, contract_rent_2023, gross_rent_2023, lease_length_code, lease_start_code, rental_assistance, section8_voucher, rent_burden_category, householder_age, household_size, first_move_in_year, order57_rate, annual_saving_at_2023_rent, renews_in_freeze_year. The article and its script
define each one.
Sources
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development and U.S. Census Bureau — 2023 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, public use files, Fieldwork January to June 2023; incomes are for 2022, rents for 2023; 80 replicate weights
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — 2023 NYCHVS Public Use File User Guide and Codebook, 2024
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — 2023 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey: Selected Initial Findings, 2024
- U.S. Census Bureau and NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey public use files, 1993 to 2021, Surveys of 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2021 (2002 to 2008 from the Census Bureau's 2008 longitudinal release); incomes for the year before each survey
- U.S. Census Bureau — NYCHVS Series IA, Table 9: Total household income, renter-occupied units by rent regulation status, 1999 to 2014, Published tables of the 1999 to 2014 surveys
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — 1996 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey: Selected Initial Findings, 1997
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — 1999 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey: Selected Initial Findings, 2000
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — 2017 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey: Initial Findings, 2018
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — 2021 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey: Selected Initial Findings, 2022
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, New York-Newark-Jersey City, all items (CUURS12ASA0), Annual averages, 1992 to 2022
- NYC Rent Guidelines Board — 2024 Income and Affordability Study, April 2024, from the 2023 NYCHVS
- NYC Rent Guidelines Board — 2026 Summary of Proposed Apartment/Loft and Hotel Guidelines (2026-27), Preliminary vote of 7 May 2026
- NYC Rent Guidelines Board — Adopted Summary of Guidelines, 2026-27 (Apartment and Loft Order #58, Hotel Order #56), Adopted 25 June 2026; leases starting 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027
- NYC Rent Guidelines Board — 2025-26 Apartment and Loft Order #57, Adopted 30 June 2025; leases starting 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026
- NYC Rent Guidelines Board — Apartment Orders #1 through #58, The board's summary chart of every order, for leases from July 1968, retrieved 1 October 2026
- NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development — HPD Builds Momentum Ahead of 2026 NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey (press release 068-25), 6 October 2025
- Spectrum News NY1 — Landlords sue Rent Guidelines Board over rent freeze, 23 July 2026
- Spectrum News NY1 — NYC rent freeze takes effect amid ongoing legal challenge, 1 October 2026
Licence and credit
The survey records are the publishing agency's, redistributed as published; the columns we derived are CC BY 4.0; the script is MIT. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.
Credit it as:
SparkyData (2026). NYC Rent-Stabilized Households: Income and Rent (version 1.0). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-rent-stabilized-households-income-and-rentThe article gives the charts, the uncertainty of each comparison and a changelog. Corrections and questions: sparkytech.dev@gmail.com, or see corrections.