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Well, good luck! I would love to see it here in NYC, so I could easily contribute to the main NYC board also, but I guess anything would be an improvement and preserve the usefulness of what we had.
I was looking for a specific housing lottery discussion that I applied to. I've made contacts on that group and it has been helpful for all of us. I won the lottery and signed my lease 6wks ago and wanted to help others who had questions. I don't understand why they took down the forum???
Yes I was looking for it too! For 44th Street. Don’t understand why it’s removed. Anyway, I inboxed you. Lol hope you’re enjoying your apartment!
Thank you Airborneguy. As a long time member of this forum, I do feel the quality of the forum declined because of all these housing lottery threads. New members sign up for the sole purpose of just posting in these kinds of threads, not adding anything of value or substance to the rest of the forum. Nobody wants to come here and see only lottery threads on the front page. People, I get it. I know housing in NYC is expensive, heck I won a lottery apartment a few years ago as well. However, when I was going through the process, I didn't waste my time asking redundant and annoying questions over and over again on forums. Let the process happen. Let things develop. Y'all so damn impatient.
There's more to NYC than BS housing lotteries.
Again you have my support Airborneguy, thanks.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Like 1/2 of the threads at a given time would be lottery threads filled with mainly Junior Members who would never post again.
Thankfully there will be a new subforum for that, so everyone can be happy.
Topics that are at the front of the forum are there for a reason. Otherwise most people wouldn’t come to the forum at all. If you come to the forum, search for the topic that interests you, why is that so difficult?
Topics that are at the front of the forum are there for a reason. Otherwise most people wouldn’t come to the forum at all. If you come to the forum, search for the topic that interests you, why is that so difficult?
These topics are dominated by posters with very low post counts who only post about this specific topic, like yourself.
The NYC forum is extremely active in regards to various topics and should not be choked by one topic that generates numerous threads which in many ways overlap and could be discussed together. In fact, they likely would be if this was a topic frequented by long time, experienced forum posters as opposed to fly-by information seekers.
Anyway, the perfect solution has been arrived at and evidenced by your post here (a perfect example of my point), you’ve not checked the main forum wherein exists a post informing you that a subforum dedicated to housing lotteries is forthcoming.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Like 1/2 of the threads at a given time would be lottery threads filled with mainly Junior Members who would never post again.
Thankfully there will be a new subforum for that, so everyone can be happy.
People likely end up on CD because they've Googled a particular affordable/low income topic and (sadly) post on CD flood first page of results. So they come bouncing in here with their "urgent" request for information.
Pity is that often information they are seeking has been discussed already (if not to death), but instead of searching archives another new post is started.
Far as regional CD forums overall only a handful of state/local areas see anywhere near action of New York/ Tri-State area. Hence all those who don't even live here feel need to join in for lack of anything else shaking where they live.
All those housing posts caused interesting threads to scroll down very fast to second, third, or even fourth page. All quite honestly for nothing but a bunch of "what is your log number?", "what is your income, if you don't mind me asking...?" "did you have an interview..?", etc...
I was posting in a couple of threads, but since this is the only one we can use right now, just wanted to give an update that my file is being sent to HPD today! I'm going for the apartments at Bronx Commons. I have community board preference and my log # is #19xx
Hoping to hear within the next 2 weeks if I'm approved or not!
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