New York is the city with the highest housing consumption in the United States, especially Manhattan, which can be said to be very expensive, both housing prices and rental prices.

In 2010, the average price of an apartment in Manhattan was about 800,000 US dollars, and in 16 years, it was almost more than 1 million US dollars, and renting has become the preferred choice of ordinary people.

In order to meet the housing requirements of low- and middle-income people, New York City ZF has implemented some rent controls on housing developers, which has brought good news to low- and middle-income citizens to a certain extent.

This policy benefits affordable housing for low- and middle-income families, enabling the city's large population of different ethnicities to realize their dream of "home ownership".

Of the 2.3 million rental housing units in New York, about one million are low-cost housing, which accounts for nearly half of the rental housing market and about a quarter of the city's population.

In New York, only 33% of people own their own home. One-ninth of New York City's population (about 1.1 million people) live in low-rent housing provided by ZF.

In New York City, there are many ZF officials living in low-rent housing, but very few ZF officers own a multi-million dollar apartment!

On the other hand, it also shows that low-rent housing in New York is relatively popular. New York City ZF is committing at least $200 million a year to subsidize housing rents and home purchase programs for low- and moderate-income families.

Therefore, in addition to the ordinary people who meet the tax filing requirements, most of the low-rent apartments jointly developed by Lin Zitan and Eddie are civil servants who meet the requirements of ZF.

Except for a small number of Chinese, there are all kinds of people, and their living habits and lifestyles are different, but in any case, people's daily needs for life are the same.

Since the completion of this commercial building on the Upper West Side, only Starbucks on the first floor and a Burger King next to it have actually opened, and other retail stores have almost been wiped out due to the epidemic.

In order to make this shopping mall really come alive, Lin Zitan has vacated the entire third floor since the epidemic situation has improved slightly, renovated it according to the model of a large supermarket, and developed a large children's playground next to it in order to facilitate the spare time life of the surrounding residents.

On the second floor, there are still various shops that are divided, and on the first floor, in addition to the shops facing the street outside, the inside is also renovated into a food court with Chinese characteristics, and Lin Zitan's No. 6 instant noodle shop is opened here.

Unlike the first instant noodle shop, this one is not standalone, but is next to the other shops in the food court.

The very center of the food court is like the one in Flushing, with dedicated seating for all customers to eat there.

That's why this No. 6 instant noodle shop stands among all kinds of food, just like other food stalls.

After all, there is a comparison, there is a high and low, the other houses are all kinds of food, their processing is relatively simple, and it is not conspicuous in these stores, at first Lin Zitan was quite worried that this relatively single instant noodle shop may be the worst business in all stores.

Therefore, he specially renovated the store into a fully open kitchen, so that guests can see every procedure being done by the chef throughout the whole process, so as to increase the appeal to customers.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zitan was just such a small idea, and it became a small highlight of the entire food court, and many people watched when it opened.

In order to attract guests to taste, Lin Zitan continued to launch many preferential activities such as the top 10 and the top 20 free tasting, which really attracted many residents and staff living in the surrounding shops.

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After Lin Zitan bought Yang Fan's supermarket, he rearranged the order of the supermarket's shelves, and built a few storefronts on the vacant land next to the supermarket, which was simply one floor on the ground.

But as soon as the shops were built, they were rented, a Chinese bakery, a nail salon, and a telecommunications shop that repaired mobile phones and opened calling cards.

The original single Chinese supermarket has instantly become a small business district of Mini, a supermarket with some customer base, and the old supermarket over there in Lin Zitan still has a month to expire, and the big relocation and new address have also made the customers of the old store hear the news.

For the establishment and management of supermarkets, Lin Zitan believes that Xiao Zheng is the most experienced, although he is not as proficient in various ZF procedures as Hu Enming at the beginning, but after so many years, Xiao Zheng has a clear understanding of which ZF departments need to deal with the audit and how to deal with it.

So soon after the relocation of the new store, Lin Zitan transferred Xiao Zheng to the No. 3 supermarket in the Upper West Side, and Xiao Zheng helped take care of a series of things from decoration to purchase, as well as employee recruitment.

I originally thought that it would not be too easy to recruit Chinese employees on the Upper West Side, but within a few days of the advertisement, many applicants came.

Most of the Chinese in these low-rent apartments work in Downtown, and they are very happy to see a Chinese supermarket suddenly open here, and many of them even quit their jobs in Downtown's Chinatown, hoping to find a job here.

The ticket price of the New York subway has been increasing since April 21, 2019, and although the one-way fare remains at $2.75, the 5% discount for each ticket purchase has been removed;

The 30-day monthly pass has risen from $121 to $127, and the seven-day weekly pass has risen by $1 from $32 to $33.

If they could find a job with equal pay near where they lived, most of them would choose to save the $127 a month, so Lin Zitan's recruitment was unexpectedly smooth.

At the end of 2021, Lin Zitan's No. 6 instant noodle shop and No. 3 supermarket in Xicheng finally opened smoothly before Thanksgiving.

After more than half a year of recuperation, Lin Zitan's two farms, which were severely damaged during the epidemic, have been able to provide fresh vegetables and fruits to his three supermarkets in a stable and continuous manner.

The previous situation of oversupply has also reached a perfect balance due to the increase in demand from the third supermarket and these 6 instant noodle shops.

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The venture capital company cooperating with Joseph has also gone very well in the past six months, and has successively invested in four or five potential new technology companies, and is fully preparing for the listing of two of them in May of the following year.

Lin Zitan's first philanthropic undertaking was led by two women with educational experience, led by Li Manrui, who developed fairly smoothly, and the students who were trained by their institution for free had dozens or hundreds of students every year.

Most of the trainees who study restaurant work quickly enter their jobs through these simple and practical trainings.

In order to expand the scope of employment of Chinese immigrants, in addition to basic employment training such as restaurants, nail art and massage, Li Manrui also arranged special training courses for real estate industry license examinations, loan salesman training courses and insurance sales business training courses for new immigrants with language foundation.

In recent years, Li Manrui has also been particularly keen to mingle with major Chinese associations and chambers of commerce, and has met many Chinese compatriots who are as enthusiastic about public welfare as her, and many of them are willing to come to their institutions for free guidance.

However, Li Manrui, who has no shortage of charitable funds, has also provided many people with part-time and re-employment opportunities, which has gained more people's good reputation for beauty and kindness.

It is also Li Manrui, a free training institution, that has helped Lin Zitan provide many corresponding talents.

Many people are directly assigned to work in instant noodle shops, supermarkets or real estate companies after passing the special training of their institutions. Including the manager of No. 6 instant noodle shop and the warehouse clerk of No. 3 supermarket, etc.