In 2024, the NYC Housing Connect lottery system received approximately 6 million applications for roughly 10,000 available affordable units. Competition was so fierce that each applicant had just a ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Dozens of affordable housing apartments are currently renting for under $1,000 on the New York City Housing Connect website. Eight buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City Housing Connect has opened an affordable housing lottery where rent is available for as little as $486. Willets Point Commons, located just down the street from Citi ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is feeling the need for SPEED. New York City’s municipal government continues to whittle away at barriers to affordable housing development, with the Mamdani administration ...

BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A new affordable housing lottery in New York City is offering one-bedroom apartments for as low as $761. The affordable housing lottery is for the 1985 Jerome Avenue Apartments, ...

The city’s lottery system for affordable apartments is called Housing Connect, but it too often fails to match New Yorkers with homes and, to his credit, Mayor Mamdani is setting out to fix it. We ...

A curious fact about New York City housing: Despite tremendous demand for below-market units, market-rate apartments can be filled a lot faster. Underpriced rentals typically sit vacant for four or ...