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Lottery to Be Held for Low-Rent Apartments

A new condo complex that was recently completed in Crown Heights is offering several apartments at steeply discounted rates, as part of the city’s Low Income Marketplace Program (LAMP).

The building, located at 1339 Lincoln Place between Schenectady and Utica Avenues, is offering 78 units for monthly rents as low as $474 for a studio apartment and $1,175 for a three-bedroom apartment.

A lottery will determine whose applications are considered. Only individuals or households who meet certain income and size requirements (see table below) can apply.

Preference for consideration will go to: Residents of Brooklyn Community District 8 (north of Eastern Parkway), municipal employees, applicants with mobility impairments and applicants with visual or hearing impairments.

The deadline for submitting an application is this Tuesday, May 13th.

After the deadline, applications will be selected for review through a lottery process. If yours is selected and you appear to qualify, you will be invited to an interview to continue the process of determining your eligibility. Interviews are usually scheduled from 2 to 10 months after the application deadline. You will be asked to bring documents that verify your household size, identity of members of your household, and your household income.

To apply online, click here: http://www.nyc.gov/housingconnect.

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23 Comments

  • LAMP?

    Shouldn’t it be LIMP?
    I guess that doesn’t sound very positive…

  • Frustrated

    How is this low income housing if a family of 3 needs at least 30k? If I made 30k I would be able to afford a 2 bdr without any help. Unfortunately I am poorer than that so I am stuck.

  • To No. 3

    The amounts are as limits, not the bottom income. A family of 3 cannot make MORE than 30k.
    I wished this was in an area more central to the community…. How safe is the area? Inasmuch as I am looking for an apartment, and cannot afford the prices out there… I would be very concerned with living in such an area and letting my children go out by themselves or to their friend’s homes.

    Concerned

  • Menachem

    There needs to be a major push now to have Anash in the hundreds make applications for this lottery! Even if a person doesn’t think they qualify because of income or their address, they should still make an application and write down whatever is necessary so that they will qualify for the program’s guidelines. If a person needs a current address North of Eastern Parkway, please use your sechel and find someone with a an address North of Eastern Parkway and who’s to say that you haven’t been subletting there!
    Please do not lose this opportunity!
    Much Hatzlacha!
    Please tell everyone you know about this program!
    URGENT!

  • good

    I hope a lot of Jewish families get these apartments and eases the market somewhat. The rates that some people are trying to charge for rent are astronomical, and impossible! There is no better protest then NO ONE renting at those ridiculous rates. And to be honest, no IS renting at those rates, there is a reason those apartment are being advertised for so long, in doesn’t matter WHAT anyone thinks is market rate- no one can pay that!

    • I think you do not know what you are talking about

      Plenty of people are moving in the apartments are renting at 2000 for a two bedroom it’s a blessing that the Jewish landlords are charging 1750 for a two bedroom for anash

  • To #6

    Look, I feel your pain, but the fact is that it’s the free market that drives these rates, not “greedy” landlords.

    If you owned a 3BR apartment, would you rent it out for less than anyone else?? Supply and demand has worked its magic, and here we are.

    Sometimes the free market works in favor of the customer, and sometimes it works against the customer. In Crown Heights it’s currently working against the customer, however, in other places outside of Brooklyn housing is dirt cheap, so it works for the customer.

    The only thing I can say to you and to other fellows looking to buy/rent in CH is that you should not expect the rent and housing to go down any time soon, and it’s time to begin searching elsewhere.

  • look outside the box!

    For anyone afraid to live on that street, I live a block away from there going towards sterling and Utica. There are many Jewish ppl that are living in that area #trustinGod

  • to #6

    For 3,500 a month for apartments, if that actually happens (I know they are trying, I just don’t see it happening!- people even working people simply are not making enough money to cover that) well, CH is going to have 2 types of people:
    1. really poor or cheating people living on public assistance
    2. really rich people who could care less

    Wait is that what is already happening??

    And YES, it is time for the in between people to look elsewhere.

  • Just wondering how many apts will go to the hipsters

    Hipsters should get none. They are outsiders & the cause of the housing problem.

    First choice is ch yidden & the African American community.

  • To 15

    Just because they are “hipsters”, they also need a place to live. How selfish and a chillul Hashem to think such a way.

  • Citizen Berel

    The increase in prices has nothing to do with any particular set of people, you sound like blacks blaming bad weather on gentrification.

    The issue is that our population B”H grows exponentially but housing supply grows not even geometrically.

    It is the same issue for room in schools.

    The solution is…avoidas Hashem. Seriously.

    • Anonymous`

      Hi, dee I have an interview with them in a few weeks. Have you heard from them yet? & what are the chances of an approval?