AMERICANS PAYING FOR UNAMERICANS:
44% of rent stabilized units in NYC are occupied by people born outside of the US…
American-born citizens are subsidizing the foreign-born to live in our financial capital, while driving up prices of the remaining supply. https://t.co/tiuh1IxdNX pic.twitter.com/57BZoudeLr
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) June 26, 2026
UPDATE: Eugene Volokh comments: “Just to be clear, about 38% of New Yorkers are foreign-born (not quite the same as ‘unAmerican,’ it seems to me). They are thus slightly overrepresented in ‘rent stabilized’ housing, but also slightly underrepresented (by the same 6%) in public housing, and at about their share of the population in market rental and rent-controlled housing. So it sounds like the native-born and non-native-born New Yorkers are on balance very similar to each other in their use of these particular kinds of benefits. Or am I missing something?”