Real Estate
Doctors Making $350,000 Are Struggling to Find Long Island Homes
- North Fork median home prices are approaching $1 million
- Governor Hochul is attempting legislation to build housing
Paul Connor has plenty of hurdles when it comes to helping run Stony Brook’s Eastern Long Island Hospital.
There’s finding quality doctors, recruiting nurses and luring lab technicians in a tight labor market. What makes Connor’s job particularly challenging though is the region’s chronic housing shortage, where even cardiologists making $350,000 a year struggle to find places to live, he said.