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Hello i have a interview for a lottery apartment I also have working section 8 if I didn't have the section 8 I could afford the rent in this new building what is the likely hood that I get the apartment or how soon will I know if I got the apartment
It can vary. At the interview you'll give in the documents requested, they then send out verifications forms to 4-5 places, then it'll go to management and once they approve (or not), they'll ask you to come in and sign papers to send your documents to HPD. Once it gets to HPD, they go through everything you submitted to make sure you qualify-this can take anywhere between 1week to 1 month. If they approve, they'll call you for orientation /an apartment viewing and you sign your lease soon after.
Crazy thing is, I'm always lucky to have low numbers, get an email from them and then get rejected because of the student rule or whatever. I still don't understand that rule. If I'm a full time student and work full time under salary, why would you look at me as a full time student and not a full time worker? So if I decide to go part time, then in the future, I'll get my chances. Isn't that a system inciting people to be lazy somehow? Then they complain about people taking advantage of the system. I need the lottery now to cut down my expenses and focus on school. After the master degree, the chances of getting a well paid job are high and that's one person out of the assistance program.
The rule excluding full-time students is a federal one relating to the tax break that the developers get for offering the low-income housing. I don't know what the reasoning is behind it.
There are lots of regular market-rate buildings around. Do they have cheap rent? It depends on the area, but probably not.
Also, you CAN be a full-time student in 80/20 housing as long as someone else in your household is not. Are you applying by yourself?
As I mentioned, I don't know the reasoning behind the no-students rule. But you point out a possibility: You go to school full time, able to do so because you have a cheap apartment, let's say. Then you graduate and get a well-paying job. You said, "That's one person out of the assistance program." But you're not required to leave your subsidized housing when your income goes up. So you're taking up a cheap apartment that could have gone to a low-income person.
Last edited by macnyc2003; 11-06-2017 at 02:52 PM..
Yes I did it alone
I actually emailed the HPD and they told me that Full-time students can apply to projects that are not Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC).
Do you mean beyond the five-business-day deadline? HPD is a tad flexible on this, say, you'd probably be OK if the agency received the appeal within five to seven business days of the postmark or email date of the marketing agent's rejection of your appeal. If it's more, well, you can submit and see what happens. If the marketing agent failed to inform you about the option of appealing to HPD, that would work in your favor. And since you need to include that rejection letter with your appeal, HPD would see that. I would just submit and see what happens. Or call the Compliance desk, but by doing that you risk getting an outright "no." HPD is currently so behind that it might not notice you're late.
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