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I just spoke to the mayor on #askthemayor to tell him how stressful the housing lottery process has been. I put my life on hold for this lottery only to find I’ve been mysteriously placed on the waitlist. I don’t want to appeal because I don’t want to rock the boat. But if you’ve had similar stress please call the mayors office.
I just spoke to the mayor on #askthemayor to tell him how stressful the housing lottery process has been. I put my life on hold for this lottery only to find I’ve been mysteriously placed on the waitlist. I don’t want to appeal because I don’t want to rock the boat. But if you’ve had similar stress please call the mayors office.
Gosh, that's awful, but good for you for calling the mayor's office.
If you don't mind our asking - you don't have to tell us for which development, but can you tell us what the details were - as in timeline, or if your credit was checked, if you were shown a unit, etc.
There's so much more. The guidelines are inconsistently applied and don't keep pace with the way many people now earn their living nowadays, and end up being discriminatory. Supporting documents are often ignored. The rigidity excludes people who are clearly qualified. People are not told exactly why they're rejected in the vague sentences provided. I dont want to diminish anyone's stress (it gets to me too), but I think the stress is the least of it (it's a government program; it comes with stress), or it's all tied to the fact that the people tasked with administering this program have not been adequately trained (and I include HPD here too) and frequently don't know what they're doing. Can we call the mayor's office anytime about this, or is it only on certain days? Thanks for getting us all in on this. I guess my main point is that the main problem is inconsistency, incompetency and archaic, overly rigid guidelines that don't keep pace with the way many people work these days, which ends up excluding large swaths of people who are qualified and deserving.
OP.. I went through the same hell the last two years. It's not worth it at this point. My story has been on this site for a while so I won't go into details, but I am SO over it. And now that the city has decided they don't want any people who make over 60% AMI in these lotteries anymore my chances are so much slimmer. I've decided it's better to just focus on how I can increase my income now and do better and maybe get out of this city, it's hard though. Also, once you are on the waitlist, you can't really appeal for the most part. There's a lot of shade going on in this affordable housing program. It seems to have started out okay a few years ago, but now it's balls to the wall graft and it's SO OBVIOUS between the Mayor and the developers in his back pockets, predatory corporations financing these new buildings going up who are not interested whatsoever in affordability for the middle class and their welfare but more for the land they can acquire which they are betting on skyrocketing in the near future. 25 year tax abatements mean NOTHING to these vulture capitalists and the city and our mayor have decided to drop their drawers and bend over backwards for them.
I'd not have gotten fair treatment in my affordable housing search (Mitchell Lama) had it not been for the support of the City Council President's (Christine Quinn) office and her very helpful aide.
We were ultimately successful, if years too late, but it was one of the most stressful experiences of my life.
Don't get some of you people. Know plenty who apply or have applied for these lottery apartments (co-workers, friends, neighbors....); they submit their names and or paperwork then go on with their lives. If contacted they supply further information and or do what is requested then again get on with their lives.
Some of you should be stressed out; mostly because you obsess, stalk buildings, and otherwise become too emotionally vested in process that by nature is designed to be arbitrary.
I want to get something for nothing...and it's so stressful...why aren't they nice to me...can someone help me waaaaaaaaa.
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