Out of thousands of applicants only a few hundred are chosen to actually participate in the review process. It works like this: Lotteries are announced on the city's housing site information on income restrictions and ranges is listed and varies from building to building if you fit the income range, download an application from the site or write to request one. So when I heard about one on the NYC.gov site in Hell’s Kitchen at the start of the year I applied. In NYC oftentimes when a luxury rental building is being constructed, developers will offer 20% of the units to lower-to-middle income tenants at a drastically reduced rate in order to get tax incentives. The ultimate possibility for rejection? Profound. While I didn’t have to go through a public stoning by the community, the sheer amount of paperwork one must compile and present in addition to doing in-person interviews was daunting. I recently entered a NYC Housing “Lottery” which turned out to be only slightly less stressful than that described in Shirley Jackson’s short story of the same name.
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