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New York City’s first major overhaul of the housing lottery online will bring the system into the digital age, including the ability to apply on a smartphone. “The new and improved NYC Housing Connect will make applying for affordable housing easier than ever at a time that we know families need all the help they can get.”Īpplicants must wait years, often through personal financial hardship, for a shot at an affordable apartment, which can be hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars less than a market-rate unit.

As stress is mounting on families across the city, we are fighting to ensure all New Yorkers are supported,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “This pandemic not only caused a health crisis - it has caused an economic one as well. The new system is designed to streamline the application process, fix the frequent glitches and speed up the time it takes to move people into below-market apartments. buildings and how the ingenuity of engineers helped build landmarks.

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Since 2013, there have been more than 25 million applications submitted for roughly 40,000 units.

Tens of thousands of people, and sometimes many more, vie for the handful of units available at a time. His new one-bedroom home costs $1,554 a month, about $700 less than a comparable market-rate unit, he said.įor many New Yorkers, the most desirable jackpot is not the New York Lotto, but to be selected in the city’s extraordinarily competitive affordable-housing lottery. He finally moved into the Bronx apartment last month, nearly six years after he first filed an application with the city’s affordable-housing system. But first he had to prove his eligibility by printing a month’s worth of financial, banking and tax documents, along with a letter from his employer, and providing them in person to a marketing agent for the apartment. That was until late last year, when he was told that he might qualify for a one-bedroom unit in the Bronx. Each time, he got the same response: silence. He signed onto the New York City’s housing lottery site and applied for one of the city’s highly coveted, below-market apartments. For more than five years, William Sencion did the same task over and over.