The Problem With Lottery Housing

Liberal cities try to circumvent the market, but the ‘hidden market’ for affordable apartments is cruel in its own way.
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Vacant Affordable Apartments to Now Skip Lottery and Be Filled on First-Come, First-Served Basis

Renting vacated, affordable apartments through the city’s housing lottery is about to get easier — but you’ll have to be fast to nab one. For the next year, the city’s housing department will waive ...
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He won the NYC housing lottery after applying more than 60 times. Now, he pays $2,300 in rent for his Brooklyn apartment.

Josh Ayala found his first apartment through the New York City Housing Lottery.Josh Ayala Josh Ayala, 26, won the New York City affordable-housing lottery after applying for about a year. His monthly ...
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She was still in college when she started applying for the housing lottery. Now, she pays $1,600 for a one-bedroom apartment in NYC.

Competition for lottery apartments is stiff, with an average of 450 applications for each rental unit. Ceronne Mitchell, 26, first learned about the New York City housing lottery through her mother ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Affordable housing lottery opens for new Gowanus apartment building

An affordable housing lottery has opened for another new Gowanus building that benefited from the neighborhood’s rezoning. Still under construction, this one is a 13-story, 193-unit block-long ...