Understand income eligibility requirements. Those with mobility, hearing and/or vision impairments might also be given priority.Ĥ. (This rule, however, is currently facing a legal challenge.) Municipal employees also are given a priority, and residents who currently live in the same Community Board District might also have a leg up since 50 percent of a development’s affordable units are supposed to give preference to locals. Who gets preference? (Hint: You should already live in the city.)Īpplicants who live in the five boroughs are given general preference over those who don’t, according to HPD. That also means if more than one member of a household applies to the same development, the household will be disqualified from that lottery, HPD officials said.ģ. If you’re applying online, don’t send in a form by mail, and vice-versa, for the same project.ĭuplicate applications are immediately disqualified. Your chances of being selected in a lottery are the same whether you apply online or through mail, HPD officials said. You can also apply by mail, with the application postmarked before the deadline. Housing Connect allows you to fill out a profile, which you can easily update and use to apply to multiple new housing lotteries. The online system also was expanded to include a section to apply for Mitchell-Lama developments - which have more than 50,000 affordable units - when they open their wait lists. The city updated Housing Connect this month so it’s now available in six languages beside English - Arabic, “simplified” Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian and Spanish. You must apply for lotteries though NYC Housing Connect, which has more than 700,000 registered applicants, according to HPD. Nowadays, it’s rare for housing lotteries to attract anything less than 50,000 applicants, but in order to qualify for the city’s affordable housing lotteries, New Yorkers must pass certain criteria.
MANHATTAN - The affordable housing lottery this summer for 64 units at a high-end glassy tower on Madison Avenue was the first to get 100,000 applicants, according to data city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.īut odds are slim that all of these applicants were actually eligible for the income-restricted units with washer/dryers and impressive Manhattan views at 160 Madison Ave.
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