# New York City is back

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2022-06-09
**Categories:** bloomberg, economics, manhattan, miami, net-migration, new-york-city, phoenix, population, population-growth, population-loss, san-francisco, urbanism
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/new-york-city-is-back

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So here's the headline: More people are moving to Manhattan than before the pandemic. This is true. But an even more accurate description might be that New York City was losing people before the pandemic and it is still losing people. But things have rebounded since the lows of the pandemic and it is now losing less people. Here are two charts from Bloomberg:This is generally good news since the increased exodus (to places like Miami) led some to believe that one of the most important global cities in the world was now dying. I never thought that was the case. But there's no arguing against the fact that the fastest growing cities in the US are the ones with more affordable housing and fewer constraints on new development.

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