Editor’s note: The photos in this story, which capture Syracuse’s housing crisis, appeared earlier this year in an exhibit at ArtRage Gallery. Central Current contributors Mike Greenlar and Michelle Gabel reported from the ground with support from Central Current. This week, Central Current will again be partnering with ArtRage Gallery. Contributor Eddie Velazquez and reporter Debadrita Sur will moderate a panel on Interstate 81 and environmental inequalities. You can register to attend by clicking here.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, Syracuse has seen rising rent costs, rising home prices, rising homelessness and rising tensions between tenants and landlords.
Even as some of those conditions ease, the city will now experience three projects — the removal of the Interstate 81 viaduct, the redevelopment of public housing and Micron’s arrival — that could again jolt the housing and rental markets…