{"id":191255,"date":"2026-04-09T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191255\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:36:09","slug":"how-is-your-city-trying-to-make-life-affordable-buses-rent-childcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191255\/","title":{"rendered":"How Is Your City Trying to Make Life Affordable: Buses, Rent, Childcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Affordability is the word of the year. Look no further than the ascension of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, or President Donald Trump’s economic messaging.<\/a><\/p>\n

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As lowering costs takes center stage, we want to know what \u2014 if anything \u2014 has helped make life more affordable for city-dwellers.<\/p>\n

For instance, a spate of new apartment buildings<\/a> has helped, in part, to lower rent prices in Austin<\/a>. A limited free bus program in Boston has meant that riders saved an average<\/a>\u00a0of $35 monthly, and a similar program\u00a0in Kansas City has<\/a>\u00a0led to a drop in safety incidents, though it’s proven costly during\u00a0budget shortfalls. After the enactment of a rent control ordinance<\/a> in St. Paul, Minnesota, the number of building permits plunged, and some development halted; in neighboring Minneapolis, a loosening of land-use regulations meant a spate of new builds and housing.<\/p>\n

Tell us about your experiences with programs like these by filling out the form below; we want to know what they’ve meant for your wallet and budget. You can also reach this reporter at jkaplan@businessinsider.com<\/a> if you have a story to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Affordability is the word of the year. Look no further than the ascension of New York City Mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51301,76563,262,76564,76561,3443,76562,5800,76559,9,24,55,54,55714,56,564,76560,76557,76556,76558],"class_list":{"0":"post-191255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-budget-shortfall","9":"tag-building-permit","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-free-bus-program","12":"tag-land-use-regulation","13":"tag-life","14":"tag-loosening","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-new-build","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","20":"tag-new-york-city-news","21":"tag-number","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-rent","24":"tag-rent-control-ordinance","25":"tag-similar-program","26":"tag-spate","27":"tag-st-paul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}