According to a recent study of communities across Long Island, New York, the idea that apartment complexes house more school-age children per unit than single-family homes is a myth.
The Long Island Housing Partnership (LIHP), a not-for-profit affordable housing developer, commissioned the study to address communities' concerns that multifamily housing leads to overcrowding in schools, putting an added strain on school districts' wallets. These concerns have led residents to fear school tax increases, which in turn, according to Newsday, have led to the rejection of several high-density development proposals on Long Island.
As Newsday points out, however, the study's child-per-unit measure doesn't account for the possibility that the total number of school-age children in a particular apartment complex could be higher than the total from all single- or two-family homes that would fit on a property of the same size.
The study, which was performed by the Long Island Association, a business advocacy group, looked at 27,594 units from 299 apartment complexes. The results were presented to LIHP on Monday.
Do you think that multifamily housing leads to overcrowding of schools? Should apartment complex proposals ever be rejected for fear of school tax hikes? Do the results of this study sway your opinion on this issue?
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