Renting vacated, affordable apartments through the city’s housing lottery is about to get easier, but you’ll have to be quick to find one.
For the next year, the city’s housing department will waive bureaucratic rules on how landlords have to get new tenants into empty affordable-housing units, according to The City.
Starting May 1 through April 30, 2026, landlords and brokers will be able to advertise those apartments publicly, on websites like Streeteasy or Craigslist, on the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s website or on other platforms…