Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for East New York Apartments Starting at $589 a Month

An affordable housing lottery has launched for studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments for the first building of a large, four-building affordable and supportive housing development rising in East New York.

Once completed, the more than 500-unit, mixed-use HELP ONE complex will include 255 affordable rentals, supportive apartments, and a 195-unit homeless shelter, and will take up almost the entire block between Sutter and Blake avenues and Snediker Avenue and Hinsdale Street. Its buildings, which range between six and 10 stories high, will replace a 192-unit HELP USA homeless shelter that was razed for the development.

The site is owned by nonprofit housing and homeless services provider HELP USA, which is developing and will manage the new complex.

The current lottery is for the nine-story Help One Building A at 273 Snediker Avenue. The 184-unit building includes 72 affordable apartments – the units included in the lottery – and 111 supportive housing units, according to NYC Housing Connect. The building will have on-site social service programs and an on-site resident manager.

The rent-stabilized, income-restricted units available in the lottery are aimed at households earning from 40 percent to 60 percent of Area Median Income, or $23,143 to $91,500 for one to five people. The monthly rent for a studio will range from $589 to $947, one-bedrooms from $745 to $1,193, and two-bedrooms will cost between $884 and $1,421.

According to NYC Housing Connect, the building includes a shared laundry room, elevator, bike storage lockers, and a recreation room, and is just one block from the Sutter Avenue subway station. There will be a security guard and cameras. The building is smoke-free, and tenants pay for electricity.

According to the listing, the building is being constructed through the Housing Development Corporation and Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s Extremely Low & Low-Income Affordability program and HPD’s Supportive Housing Loan Program.

The HELP ONE development went through a rezoning that was approved in 2019, and construction started on the first two buildings in 2022. On top of the supportive and affordable housing units, the complex will include retail space, a daycare center, office space, youth programming, and supportive services offered by HELP USA.

According to permits, the architect for the development is Curtis + Ginsberg Architects.

The four buildings will surround central courtyards designed to increase residents’ access to green space. The courtyard for the shelter building will be separated by a wall in order to increase security for shelter residents, City and Land reported in 2019.

According to New York Housing Conference, the development’s “large scale facades are broken down by changes in materials, with planar and massing articulation, giving the feel of multiple buildings, especially on the long street fronts between the avenues.”

The lottery closes September 11. To apply, visit the listing on New York City’s Housing Connect website.

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