![]() ![]() In the interim you likely have been able to save move for the move. If you get tired of waiting for a larger apt there you can move out. If you move into the Mitchell Lama there will likely be waitlist internally for a larger apartment. If you want a two bedroom but have been offered a log# for a one bedroom Mitchell Lama take the log # and pay the application fee. However, a Mitchell Lama on Coney Island could move faster because it’s so far from Manhattan. A Mitchell Lama on the Upper West Side near Central Park would like move more slowly because of its desirability keeps vacancies low. I suppose I have emphasized that Mitchell Lama is slow, but there are exceptions, and it’s not so transparent. It’s true that you might not get called soon enough to matter, but if you are called it can be life changing and the fee is nothing in comparison. The fee is not enormous, and a portion of it is refundable. If today the particular Mitchell Lama does not seem to suit you, you can ignore those feelings because circumstances could have changed by the time they get to your log#. If you get a log# for a Mitchell Lama, my suggestion is take it, pay the application fee. Tenants and co-op owners are not motivated to leave. Some have pools, and some have both pools and parking. One reason why there are so few vacancies at Mitchell Lama buildings is they are often excellent values for the money. A single Mitchell Lama building might only have three vacancies in a year, and often no vacancies in a year for 2 bedroom units and larger. Compared to Housing Connect lotteries that are constantly offering new buildings that are entirely empty. Why is Mitchell-Lama slow? There has not been a Mitchell Lama built in NYC in decades. With such a long wait, it does not make sense to go into details about income presently but instead wait until an offer can be made which might be years from now. Presumably, this is because they know a household’s size and income will likely shift by the time they are offered an apt. Mitchell-Lama, because it’s slow, only has a short application at first. Although, in this forum there are a very few posts about a Mitchell-Lama taking under a year or just a year or two. In a nutshell, the application processes are different, and the Mitchell-Lama process can be very very slow, years even more than a decade. If a Mitchell Lama building has an average occupancy age of 80 then we can assume that vacancies would occur more often than if the average age was 40. There is no good way to predict vacancies other than perhaps learning the ages of tenants and co-op owners. Because they are already occupied they only have lotteries to join waitlists for possible future vacancies. There are many fewer vacancies each year at NYC Mitchell Lama’s which are all decades old and already occupied. There are hundreds maybe even thousands of Housing Connect new empty apartments each year. If you use the “search this forum” feature on here on the “New York City Housing Lottery” there are many posts on this. ![]()
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