not saying put all your eggs in the ML basket but it IS a possibility. Sent in like 18 for the east midtown plaza lottery, same situation - under myself and different fam members, and I had 2 fam members that were picked. I sent in over 21 postcards for Penn South's list in 2014 for myself and different family members, and I was picked. Send in postcards for you and literally everyone else you know that would add you to the household composition as well, friends/family, etc. I would suggest to keep applying i know it feels like a longshot but keep applying, especially if it's an ML co-op. I felt the same way until I was called off a waitlist from a 2014 lottery just 2 short years later (also between myself, my fiance and some members of my family we are on 3 other waitlists as well). Is there a phone number for the apartment you can call? I may be wrong but I think these apartments can be passed down to family members. These housing lotteries are pipe If your parents got picked and they have low enough income, they should look into it. “The opportunity for sponsors and shareholders to convert to market rate was part of the original concept.”Īsked to speculate about Hochul’s motivation for signing a law that is widely seen as unwelcome by the real estate industry, Mollen says, “I think the governor wants to send a message that maintaining affordable housing is extremely important.Didn't get selected for York Hill co-op. “The original Mitchell-Lama agreements never contemplated that the buildings would have permanent status as Mitchell-Lamas,” Mollen says. There’s also a limit on the profit shareholders can make when they sell their apartment. Residents must verify their household income annually, and if that income exceeds the allowable limit, they must pay a surcharge in addition to their monthly maintenance or rent. The Mitchell-Lama program was created on both the city and state levels in 1955 as affordable cooperative and rental housing for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers. He notes that the complex deal included protections for eldlerly and disabled residents, and rent protections for shareholders who chose not to purchase their apartments. Mollen was involved in the conversion of the massive, 1,258-unit Ruppert Yorkville Towers from a Mitchell-Lama to a market-rate condominium in 2003. The co-op lost tax abatements and other perks, but shareholders usually experienced a financial windfall.
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Traditionally, shareholders were able to buy their apartments at about 30% of their market value, and were then free to flip them or continue living in them. After that time, they could opt to charge market-rate rents or sell the apartments and create a condominium. That number was amended and now stands at 20 years. Under the law that created the Mitchell-Lama program, developers were required to keep the buildings, either cooperatives or rentals, affordable for a specified number of years in return for tax abatements and other considerations. “Without this reform,” Rosenthal says, “which was shaped by Mitchell-Lama shareholders from across the city and state, we would continue to bleed desperately needed units of affordable Mitchell-Lama housing to the private market.”
The new legislation was sponsored in the state Legislature by two New York City Democrats, Assembly member Linda Rosenthal and Sen. The positive side is that this will lead to greater communication between boards and shareholders because of the mandated six meetings a year.” This law empowers the minority to control the majority - even a big majority. Now, 20.1% of the shareholders know they can block the whole process. “This law makes it very difficult - not impossible, but very difficult to opt out. “Some people believe this is a mechanism to prevent all buyouts because the requirements are so high,” says Scott Mollen, a partner at the law firm Herrick Feinstein who has extensive experience with past opt-outs.
It also requires Mitchell-Lama co-op boards to hold six shareholder meetings a year, and if a vote to opt out fails, it places a five-year moratorium on a new vote. The new law requires that 80% of residents - up from 67% - must choose to opt out of the program. Supporters of affordable housing are delighted shareholders and sponsors in Mitchell-Lama co-ops who yearn to transform their apartments to market rate are equally dismayed. The governor’s move has sparked sharp divisions. Kathy Hochul has signed a law that raises the bar for Mitchell-Lama co-ops to opt out of the affordable-housing program and convert their apartments to market rate.
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