One Nassau County Has a Housing Crisis, the Other Nassau County Has a Solution

📅 Published: August 15, 2025

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New York’s Long Island is frozen in the 20th century.

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FacebookXLinkedInEmailLinkGiftFacebookXLinkedInEmailLinkGiftByBen StevermanAugust 15, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDTBookmarkThis article is part of theAugust 21, 2023issueofbusinessweek.

Chevron RightLike many natives of New York’s Long Island his age, Jason Mueller, 23, lives with his parents.

And, like a growing number of his peers, he’s making plans to pack up and move away. “There’s an exodus of my generation from Long Island,” Mueller says, citing friends who’ve left for upstate New York, North Carolina and Florida. “The No. 1 thing that’s keeping me from staying on Long Island is the housing costs,” he says.

Attend a public hearing in any of suburban Long Island’s 100-plus cities, towns and villages, and you’re likely to hear a lot of grumbling.

Employers complain they can’t find workers.

Millennials complain they can’t afford to raise children where they grew up.

Baby boomers complain about grandchildren living far away.

People complain about the traffic, the taxes and the rundown shopping malls and vacant office parks eroding the tax base.

But almost any scheme to address these problems by bringing new people or economic activity to Long Island—where the population of its densest area, Nassau County, peaked 50 years ago—is met with objection after objection from the same folks.