Tag: area-median-income

Bushwick affordable housing lottery, with rents starting at $994, closes soon

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Jun. 10, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A housing lottery for 19 truly affordable apartments in Bushwick, spread across three new buildings, is closing in two days. The Bushwick Alliance apartments are in three new four-story buildings at 63 Stockholm St., 332 Eldert St., and 272 Jefferson St. and they include studios, one- and two-bedroom…

6 million applicants for 10,000 units: Housing lottery leaves out New Yorkers most in need

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May. 15, 2025 By Shane O’Brien New York City’s housing crisis is no secret and the city’s low-cost housing landscape remains extremely difficult to navigate, including a housing lottery system theoretically devised to provide a solution for the dire need for accommodation. A problem that has been brewing for decades, the housing crisis continues…

Officials break ground on second phase of Kingsland Commons, bringing hundreds of affordable homes to Greenpoint

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Sep. 20, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann Local and state officials joined the Hudson Companies and St. Nicks Alliance on Sept. 18 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the second phase of the Kingsland Commons development at the 3.4-acre site of the former Greenpoint Hospital campus in Greenpoint. The Greenpoint Hospital, which served the community for…