Papa--Mochi t1_j7z54o0 wrote on February 10, 2023 at 1:16 PM

Reply to comment by Rottimer in Median New York rent passes $4,000 a month in January by geoxol

>So the Waterboard is treating more waste, but he dismisses it as just more rain. Did he try to speak to an third party to make sense of the data? Or did he just not want to make sense of the data?

There's a reliable third-party that's already confirmed his claim that NYC population was off a cliff even in the back half of 2021: The government census says NYC's population was down 400,000 in July, compared to April 2020.

I get why people don't want to accept it, but it's right there in black and white.

Rottimer t1_j7z6gok wrote on February 10, 2023 at 1:28 PM

And that makes a lot of sense given how covid hit this city. A LOT of people that could, left. The question is whether the population rebounded in 2022. There are a lot of indicators that it has and that would explain the increase in rents. It could be collusion using software or some combination of factors. But I don’t think it’s reasonable to definitively say that the population has stayed depressed when there is conflicting data and we know the Census PEP has consistently under estimated.