Make sure it’s all truthful, because if you do get selected, an even more extensive application process is ahead of you and it’s all based on your original information on this site. If your original information isn’t honest and doesn’t jibe with the secondary information, you will get disqualified. To get started, you have to fill out financial and personal information about yourself and anyone you're planning to share your apartment with. But winning the housing lottery when you're middle income isn't as simple as buying a ticket and hoping for the right numbers to come up. If you want to win the lottery, you gotta play. Other sites to check out are the New York City Housing Development Corporation's Middle-Income-Rentals, which shows you what's available in all five boroughs for mid-range apartments specifically, and Mitchell-Lama Connect, which shows you where wait lists stand in the city's Mitchell-Lama buildings (note: these are both sales and rentals). Note: Income limits depend on your family-size. (As an example, a family of four looking to apply to a new building in East Harlem that's currently accepting applications, has to make between $42,549 and $57,240-which is way under the middle-income threshold-and a two-person household can only make a combined income between $42,549 and $45,840.) There, a family of four could make up to $95,400 and still qualify for a two-bedroom for just over $1,500 a monthīut most of the buildings currently accepting applications have income caps below $70,000. Albans, Queens has the highest income cap. Of the 10 subsidized buildings across Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn that are currently accepting applications via Housing Connect, one in St. Other buildings on the site consider applicants who make as much as 165 percent of the AMI, who would fall more within the middle-class range, but those are much more rare. Some buildings you'll find on Housing Connect are only applicable to low income New Yorkers, earning 30 percent the Area Median Income. The bulk of the homes will be rented to those classified as low income, which marks a 5,000-unit decrease from the earlier target.”įor those looking for these few-and-far-between middle-income rentals, NYC Housing Connect is the online portal where you'll find new postings, and through which you can apply. (Note: We here at Brick Underground also frequently post when new affordable housing units start accepting lottery applications). According to Politico, on July 25, 2017 "New Yorkers who fall into the middle income range (which is approximately between $69,000 to $141,735 a year), are now slated to get 39,000 subsidized homes, compared to 44,000 in the initial plan.
Just recently, and quite stealthily, the mayor adjusted his housing plan to cut the number of available units formerly put aside for middle income housing, and raise the amount of units set aside for lower income housing. Since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014 the availability of housing for middle-income families has decreased exponentially. Usually the less you make, the more subsidized housing options are available.
Government subsidized housing options vary based on how much you make relative to your AMI. Local government determines what’s "affordable" by something called the Area Median Income, or AMI, which shift by neighborhood. But according to the HPD (Department of Preservation and Development), that term means that housing costs are not larger than 30 percent of a person’s income. What is "affordable housing" and is there any for middle income NYC residents? the affordable housing lottery to be exact. The solution for those like us may lie in playing the lottery.
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