closes in 3d3556 Holland Avenue Apartments
3556 Holland Ave
$2,046 – $2,549/mo
20 units
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Dozens of affordable lotteries are open right now. Hundreds open every year.
Most New Yorkers will apply to one or two.
01
Each lottery is its own form.
Housing Connect re-asks the same 30 questions for every single listing. A full day's work to apply to ten.
02
Deadlines are unforgiving.
Miss a close-out by an hour and you're out. Most people find out about lotteries too late to apply.
03
Eligibility math is a maze.
AMI bands, household size, income minimums, asset caps. It's solvable, but nobody's paying you to solve it.
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So we built the autopilot.
You fill out your info once. We apply to every lottery you qualify for, the second it opens, for as long as you want.
How it worksFour steps.
Four steps.
You only do the first one.
- 01you · 6 min
Tell us about your household.
Income, household size, preferences. One form, once. We never sell or share your info.
- 02autopilot
We watch every lottery.
LotKey checks NYC Housing Connect every 15 minutes across the entire city and flags every match.
- 03autopilot
We file for you.
When a match opens, we submit your application, correctly, on time, with every detail in the right place.
- 04autopilot
You review invitations.
When a building calls you in for a viewing, we hand off to you with a checklist of what to bring.
What people say.
In their own words.
I would have never applied to half these lotteries on my own.
I work two jobs. Logging into Housing Connect every week was something I always meant to do and never did. LotKey just does it. Two months in, I'm in 23 lotteries.
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FAQ.
No. LotKey is an independent tool. We interact with NYC Housing Connect the same way an applicant would, by filling out its forms on your behalf. We can't skip the line, influence selection, or improve your odds beyond getting you in front of every lottery you qualify for.
We only file where you're actually eligible: AMI, household, occupancy, preferences all check out before we submit. Submitting to ones you don't qualify for would hurt you, not help.
Income, household, documents, and lottery history, all encrypted, US-based, never sold, never used to train anything. You can export or delete everything in one click.
We hand off to you with a packet: who the landlord is, what to bring, where the building is, what the unit actually looks like, and typical next-step timing. You take the viewing; we take notes.
Yes. Add your voucher at setup and we'll only surface listings that accept it, and prioritize them in your queue.
$14.99/month, cancel anytime in one click. If you moved into a lottery unit because of us, we'll refund your last month. Call it a housewarming.
Honest answer: low per lottery, but cumulative odds are the game. A popular Manhattan building might get 80,000 applications for 80 units. A Bronx building at 40% AMI might get 3,000 for 60. The right strategy is volume: applying to every lottery you qualify for, consistently, over months. That's exactly what we automate.
No. NYC Housing Connect lotteries are open to US citizens, permanent residents, and many visa holders. Undocumented applicants may qualify for some listings under local programs. We flag eligibility per listing so you're never guessing.
Yes. You don't have to be homeless or housing-insecure to enter a lottery. Renters, homeowners, and people living with family all apply. If you win, you'd simply move.
AMI stands for Area Median Income, a federal benchmark updated annually for the NYC metro area. Listings are priced for households earning a percentage of it (e.g. '60% AMI'). We calculate your household's AMI bracket from your income and size, then only show you lotteries where you fall in the eligible band.
Nothing beyond what you fill in during onboarding. We don't ask for IDs, pay stubs, or tax returns. The information you give us at signup is everything we need to file on your behalf. If a landlord later invites you to a viewing, that's when documents come into play, and we hand you a checklist of exactly what to bring.
Yes, and you should. There's no penalty for applying to many. Lotteries are independent and you can only accept one unit. We handle the volume so you don't have to track it yourself.