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October 6, 2022
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The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle — Part IV: How New York’s Governor Embraced the Economic Absurdity Behind a Supposed Housing Miracle
New Rochelle transformed its downtown and attracted billions of dollars in development. But claims that a few thousand apartments produced a housing affordability miracle became a national narrative — and eventually part of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s argument for changing housing policy across New York. DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 27, 2026) — Imagine
The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle — Part III: How a Housing Miracle Became National Conventional Wisdom
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 27, 2026) — Within 48 hours of The Wall Street Journal publishing an article celebrating New Rochelle as a rare American city that had managed to bring rents down by building thousands of apartments, the story was being repeated by other news organizations, promoted on national television and
The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle — Part II: The Rent Data is Not for Downtown
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 26, 2026) — Remember those rental statistics that supposedly proved New Rochelle had discovered the secret sauce to bringing down housing costs? The numbers promoted by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Wall Street Journal that helped turn New Rochelle into a celebrated national model for solving America’
The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle— Part I: How a Housing Miracle Was Built on Cherry-Picked Rent Data
An examination of nearly a decade of Apartment List data challenges the statistics used to portray New Rochelle as a national model for lowering rents. DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 26, 2026) — For more than a year, New Rochelle has been celebrated as a rare American success story: a city that welcomed