Mobility, Dispersion and Economic Diversity in Housing Conditions for Hispanics in New York State

This report presents housing data in legislative districts in the state of New York and compare them to state-level data to highlight how Hispanic in legislative districts throughout the state fare relative to the district’s overall population as well as the state’s population as a whole.

Findings include Hispanics generally, but not always, having worse outcomes around housing conditions related to costs than other New Yorkers, evident in the data presented at the district level, the county level and the state level. But Latinos are also an increasingly diverse group, not just culturally (e.g., in terms of generational acculturation in the United States) and ethnically (e.g., country of origin, such as Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, etc.). They are an increasingly diverse group economically and geographically, as evident in the data presented in this report. This diversity makes dynamics more complex and challenging politically as varied interests emanating from this diversity are represented in Albany. Nevertheless, Hispanics are a highly mobile group, evident in its growth and dispersion throughout the state as well as their settlement patterns. A mobile group that sees worsening economic opportunities—with housing a leading economic factor—may make them more prone to exit the state, if conditions elsewhere appear more attractive.