Lottery for 420 Classon Avenue Kicks Off
The Pratt Area Community Council announced this morning that applications for the lottery for the 12 affordable condominium units it’s developing at 420 Classon Avenue in Clinton Hill are now being accepted. Christened The Hawthorne, the development is a combination of three beautiful but formerly dilapidated turn-of-the-century houses. Here are the details: Four one-bedroom priced…
The Pratt Area Community Council announced this morning that applications for the lottery for the 12 affordable condominium units it’s developing at 420 Classon Avenue in Clinton Hill are now being accepted. Christened The Hawthorne, the development is a combination of three beautiful but formerly dilapidated turn-of-the-century houses. Here are the details: Four one-bedroom priced between $185,000 and $211,000 are available for households earning up to $73,700; four two-bedrooms priced from $258,000 to $270,000 are available for households earning up to $92,200; four two-bedrooms priced from $374,000 to $424,000 are available for households earning up to $116,900. There are three ways to get an application: 1) Pick one up in person at the PACC offices at 201 Dekalb Avenue or 1224 Bedford Avenue; 2) Download one from prattarea.org; 3) Send a SASE 41-cent business-sized envelope to PACC, Attn: The Hawthorne Condos, 1224 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11216. But you better get on the stick: The application deadline is January 18. Project completion is targeted for May.
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To 7:11pm & 7:30pm, this is 5:28 speaking. Like i said 2 were for apartments, this last one is for a house/home (which makes me a first time home owner)and I have applied for way more than 8, and I too haven’t gotten a single postcard from any of the ones I did not win. They state on the application that you will not be contacted if your applicaton is not chosen.
My suggestion to you is to check out NYC.Gov frequent, and apply, apply, apply……
Eight times is not going to cut it. I have applied for dozens in my years. Trust me it is no “joke”
I’ve applied for every lottery I’ve qualified for in multiple boroughs over the last seven years – at least eight lotteries – and I’ve never even received as much as a postcard letting me know that my application was thrown in the hopper.
I can’t believe that the odds are that good. My husband is a teacher so we qualify for one of the special 5% and still nada.
Putnamdenizen, the link to the app is on the bottom of the PACC home page.
I am not sure if 5:28 is joking or not. If s/he is serious, then it seems more proof that lotteries don’t work – I thought they were supposed to be for first time home-buyers?
I went to the PACC link and couldn’t find anything about this lottery or how to download the application. Okay let me put on my hardhat for all the “can’t you even read” responses. I wanted to know because even though I don’t believe I am eligible (as I own a house), I wanted to forward info to friends and co-workers.
As a first time home buyer, I won a lottery for affordable housing and so can attest that these programs really do make a difference for people who earn the median income and can’t afford current housing prices. I doubt that there are under-the-table deals.
In addition, these lotteries have much better odds than mega millions! Not a lot of people enter them. Everyone who fits the bill should enter.
Lotteries do work. I am proof. Especially if you live in the community board where the apt/house is located. Community board members get 50% of the units. 5% go to Municipal employees, another 5% to Uniformed Officers (Cops) and sometimes 5% is reserved for the Disabled. That leaves 35% for the rest of the pop.
I have beebn lucky enough to win 3 lotteries in the last 10years. 2 for apts, and the last for a 2 family house. 🙂
I think alot of these lotteries go to the highest bidder under the table – The way it should work.
To 12:18:
I am the beneficiary of a PACC lottery, it works, it is wonderful program.
You do bring up a great point that programs like this need to be expanded so more people benefit. Get active locally and these programs will expand and thrive.
12:41…LOl I thought I was the only one who took notice to that.
A ClintonHillLady
Well, since we’re not going to talk about the project, I’ll through my own neighborhood-name story up here. Picked up a hitchhiker upstate, learned he was originally from Greenpoint, told him I lived in Williamsburg and asked where exactly…he told me North 8th Street. Historically, the Northside has always, ALWAYS, been part of Williamsburg. But as my rider points out, there was a time in the 70s when white=Greenpoint and Williamsburg=black/latino/Hasidic. It’s all highly subjective.