(The massive Excel spreadsheets, with names redacted, were obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request.)Īlso, 4,609 entrants vied for 44 units in the building’s other middle-income “band,” which includes one-bedrooms at $2,170 and two-bedrooms at $2,611, with rents set at approximately 30 percent of household income.įor less costly apartments, the competition was fierce. But only 2,203, according to City Limits’ analysis, were eligible for 148 middle-income apartments, such as one-bedrooms renting for $2,680 monthly and two-bedrooms at $3,223, affordable to those earning six figures. But such catch-all statistics-regularly used in depicting the hunt for below-market units-camouflage how low-income applicants face crushing odds compared to middle-income ones.Įxactly 92,743 households (not quite 95,000) entered the lottery for the “100 percent affordable” 535 Carlton tower, city data show.
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