An email the minute a new housing lottery or re-rental opens in your borough

Affordable apartments in New York go to whoever applies first, or to whoever applies at all before the deadline. We watch NYC Housing Connect, HCR's HousingSearch (state lotteries and Mitchell-Lama waitlists) and the re-rental boards of every HPD-approved marketing agent, every 10 minutes, and email you the moment something new appears where you want to live. Free, no account.

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Lotteries & waitlists Re-rentals

A lottery is applied for by a deadline and drawn by log number. A re-rental is a vacated affordable unit the agent rents directly, often first-come, first-served — the ones worth hearing about within the hour.

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Lotteries state a rent and an income band, so these filter them exactly: you only hear about ones with a unit at or under your cap whose income band includes you. Re-rental boards often print no figure — a re-rental with no rent listed still comes through rather than being dropped.

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What gets checked, and how often

NYC Housing Connect — the city's lottery, through HPD's own public API. Every 10 minutes.
HCR HousingSearch — state-supervised lotteries and Mitchell-Lama waitlists. Every hour.
Marketing agents' re-rental boards — the pages where HPD's pre-qualified firms post vacated affordable units. Every 2 hours during the day, from 9am to 9pm.