They say there's only two things you can depend on in life: death and taxes. 

If you live in New York City, you can also depend on rising rents. Our city's frustration about this even has its own rallying cry, "The rent's too damn high!"

But armed with new information from the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, we see there are only three neighborhoods left around the city that have been "gentrification-proof" in recent years. 

Rents in Canarsie, Bay Ridge, and and South Shore rose slower than the rate of inflation between 2002 and 2014, meaning they've been sustainably affordable.

But why? According to Tech Insider, it's location, location, location. 

The apparent driving force behind the rising rents elsewhere is an influx of specialized creatives. 

Housing Policy Analyst for the Community Service Society of New York, Tom Waters explains, "If it's true that rising rents in the city are due to highly skilled people in creative industries, then those [neighborhoods] aren't the kinds of places where they live." 

By "those [neighborhoods]," he means the outlying neighborhoods mentioned before. 

Canarsie, Bay Ridge, and South Shore are not close to where those above mentioned specialized creatives actually go to work. 

So it makes sense that the younger demographic-- prone to renting close to work rather than buying farther out-- is what you don't find on the outskirts of Brooklyn or on Staten Island.

On the other side of the scale, we've seen drastic growth-- often at the expense of the long-time residents-- in Harlem, Williamsburg/Greenpoint, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. 

This is why there's a Whole Foods in Park Slope and not in Canarsie, right? Right. 

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