510-550 West 45th Street Affordable Housing (Freedom, Rose: live, storage, homeless)

[MissUpperEastSide]

Originally Posted by amizac973

Hello ,
Quick question !
How were you contacted ? was it by mail or phone that you won the lottery .
I still haven't receive anything in the mail or a phone call saying I won or not .
Is there a person I can contact to ask about my status ?? Thank You

I was contacted by phone. Since the responses were overwhelming you might not get a call. It is a lottery so they do not go through all applications.
they are still calling people though. They called my friend yesterday.

[Bklife45]

I received a letter about it.

[livingsinglenyc]

Originally Posted by nychh

My file went to the city approval ... Im qualify for a studio

Just a question, I'm planing of having a baby in the next year or two (being a single mom), would I be qualify to get an upgrade for a 1BD?

So You are planning to be a single mom when you need an affordable apartment to live it? That just doesn't seem right.

[Bklife45]

So how do people like living here so far? I move in at December.

[sydney44]

Common Ground is doing the rent back ground checks for the low income applicants. I lived in a common ground building and there is a very "institutional" type of mentality here. Some of that is needed for some of the "populations" which live in Common Ground buildings (addicts), but there are simply low income individuals who live here - and the Common Ground staff don't really adjust their perspectives accordingly. I'm wondering if that is why you've gotten this type of discourse. Of course anyone knows that you can't just randomly move additional people in if they are not on the lease.

Scroll to the end of this article and you will see that Common Ground is involved with Gotham.

Common Ground | Real Deal: Meet the Landlord, Brenda Rosen

[figa8shape]

Does anyone who has already moved in pay for heat?

[Bklife45]

I was told heat is included in the rent. Can anyone confirm this?

[figa8shape]

I think that is correct. I confirmed it today

[need1apt]

do they require extra deposit for a pet?

[somebody8585]

Does anybody know what the city check for? Once you are approve by the developer the next approval comes from the city, any idea what they approve? income? credit?