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Manhattan skyline view from the roof deck of a Park Slope building ." /> Manhattan skyline view from the roof deck of a Park Slope building . View Full Caption Corcoran Group MANHATTAN— Yes, New York City is way less affordable now than seven years ago. Case in point: An apartment going for $2,000 a month for rent in 2010 would now get $2,657 a month, a report published Wednesday from real estate search engine StreetEasy reveals. Compounding the city’s affordability crisis: rents in the city rose twice as fast as wages, according to the analysis, which compared the StreetEasy Rent Index with wage data from the city’s Department of Labor. While median rents increased 3 .9 percent a year since 2010, wages increased by 1.8 percent over the same period. Those working in the city’s lowest wage jobs were hit hardest. Low- wage earners — those in the bottom 20 percent of the workforce, which represent a little more than 800,000 of the roughly 4.1 million employed New Yorkers ...

May 13, 2013 | By Alexandra Chachkevitch, Tribune Reporter Crestwood Place senior facility , discusses the importance of socio-economic diversity in communities at his apartment on May 3." alt="Marshall Gardner, a resident of Northbrook's Crestwood Place senior facility , discusses the importance of socio-economic diversity in communities at his apartment on May 3." /> Marshall Gardner, a resident of Northbrook's Crestwood Place senior facility , discusses the importance of socio-economic diversity in communities at his apartment on May 3. (Alexandra Chachkevitch, Chicago Tribune) Marshall and Paulette Gardner were residents of a senior living facility in downtown Chicago eight years ago when they decided to move back to Northbrook, nearer their children. Crestwood Place , the village's affordable housing development for seniors, seemed perfect. "We were lucky — the waiting list happened to be short during that time," said Paulette Gardner, 71...