What Would You Do to Make New York City More Affordable?

Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll look at some readers’ ideas for making New York City more affordable, and more livable.

Is New York City running out of ideas to solve its affordability crisis? That was the question behind a recent Times story that focused on a related question: What could be done to break the logjam and lower the city’s sky-high cost of living?

My colleague Eliza Shapiro put the second question to dozens of New Yorkers. Among them were economists, educators, food delivery workers and social services experts.

Along the way, it became clear that the answer to the first question was no, New York is definitely not running out of ideas.

Here is more proof of that. After publishing Eliza’s article under the headline “40 Big Ideas to Make New York City More Affordable,” we asked readers to send us their ideas. What follows are nine of them. Makaelah Walters edited and condensed them for clarity.