CHPC’s “Inside the Rent” Game Covered in DNAinfo

If you had a dime for every time you said to yourself “I wish I had a web-based game in which I could simulate planning affordable housing in NYC,” would you be rich?

Citizens Housing Planning Council, a New York City nonprofit research and education organization, has made that very thing a reality with a game called Inside the Rent. Created with assistance from the cartography firm VanDam Media, Inside the Rent players are tasked with setting a sustainable first-year rent for two-bedroom apartments in a hypothetical building by adjusting expense variables.

It’s not Grand Theft Auto, but the game would be interesting for anyone who has ever felt curious about the expense equation for planning affordable housing in NYC.

Read more in DNAinfo.