New East Harlem Housing Lottery Has $788 Apartments

EAST HARLEM, NY — East Harlem has 65 apartments with rents starting at $788 up for grabs as part of a new local housing lottery on Housing Connect.

The lottery includes four buildings called Las Raices Apartments, located at 303 East 102nd St., 338 East 117th St., 505 East 118th St., and 101 East 122nd St.

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All of the buildings have on-site laundry rooms, elevator access, and dedicated bike storage, according to the Housing Connect listing.

But wait — what is Housing Connect?

For the uninitiated, New York City Housing Connect is an online platform that lists residential buildings across the five boroughs currently accepting applications for apartments, with both leasing and purchasing opportunities.

The website, which launched in 2013, aims to provide New Yorkers with opportunities for affordable prices on apartments in new developments.

However, there is a catch: Your total income and family size need to fit within a certain range to be eligible to apply to the housing lottery, and each lottery has different income restrictions, based on a measurement called Area Median Income, which you can calculate here.

Overall, the Las Raices Apartments lottery is for people with an individual or family income range of $30,823 - $160,720.

Here are all the monthly rates.

• The building complex is renting studio apartments at $788, $1,031 and $1,760.

• One-bedroom apartments are available for $996, $1,300 and $2,211 monthly.
• Two-bedroom apartments are renting monthly at $1,178, $1,543 and $2,636.
• Three-bedroom apartments are renting at $1,767 and $3,031.

There's usually a certain number of units in each lottery set aside for people with disabilities, workers employed by the city, or people already based in the community board district where the building is located.

At Las Raices, 5 percent of the units are set aside for people with mobility disabilities, and 2 percent of the units are set aside for people with vision or hearing disabilities.

Also, 20 percent of the available units are set aside for people who live in the nearby districts of Community Board 11. Another 10 percent of the units will give preference to applications from city employees and veterans.

Once eligible New Yorkers apply for an apartment, they are issued a log number, and then the numbers are chosen at random by an automated system, lottery-style.

To see all of the apartments in the lottery or apply, click here.

For questions, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.