Affordable housing in Ithaca ensures adequate lifestyles

Affordable housing in Ithaca ensures adequate lifestyles

Ithaca’s high cost of living is driven by an expensive housing market and unusually high local tax burdens that have disproportionally fallen on homeowners and renters. Major landowners like Cornell University do not pay full property taxes, leaving the extra costs to Ithaca residents. To protect the people of Ithaca, including faculty and staff at Cornell and Ithaca College, the City and Town of Ithaca must expand affordable housing and reform …