New York City Loses Black Population Due to Lack of Affordable Housing by Black Agenda Radio published on 2023-08-11T02:08:11Z Leah Goodridge is an attorney, housing advocate, and member of the New York City Planning Commission and a former member of the Rent Guidelines Board. Leah Goodridge joins us from New York City to talk about that city’s loss of its Black population, 200,000 people in the last 20 years. She explains tha the lack of affordable housing has created this situation.