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B. IMPORTANT: No payment or fee should be given to anyone in connection with the preparation, filing or processing of an application for Public Housing.

C. YOU ARE PROBABLY ELIGIBLE FOR AN APARTMENT IF:

yThe income of your family does not exceed the limits shown on the following page.

yYou meet NYCHA’s deinition of family. The term “family” as used by the New York City Housing Authority includes the following:

a.Two or more persons related by blood, marriage, domestic partnership, adoption, guardianship or court awarded custody.

b.A single person.

yYour admission to a public housing development will not endanger the welfare and safety of other residents.

yYou and your co-head are at least 18 years of age (the co-head must be your spouse or partner). To be eligible for a senior building, you or your co-head must be at least 62 years of age.

D. PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS

Further description of the eligibility requirements for admission and the Authority’s Tenant Selection and Assignment Plan are available on our website or at the Customer Contact Centers listed below:

4.You can speak to one of our Customer Contact Center Representatives at (718) 707-7771 to check the status of your application or check online at http://selfserve.nycha.info.

The translation is provided to you as a convenience to assist you to understand your rights and obligations.

The English language version of this document is the official, legal, controlling document.

The translation is not an official document.

A translation of this document is available online at www.nyc.gov/nycha

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E. YOUR FAMILY MAY BE ELIGIBLE IF INCOME IS

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NOT MORE THAN THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS:

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F. APPLYING FOR PUBLIC HOUSING

In order to be considered for an apartment in a public housing development, a completed application must be submitted online from our website at www.nyc.gov/nycha. Applicants select a irst and second borough choice and provide information about their total household income, family composition and current living situation. Applications are assigned a priority code based upon information provided, and placed on the Housing Authority’s preliminary waiting list to await an eligibility interview. Within 30 days of our receipt of your application, you will receive an acknowledgment letter. This application will be in force for 2 years from the date of receipt. It is not necessary to re-ile during this period. However, if you are not scheduled for an eligibility interview during this 2 years period, you must ile a new application at least 30 days before the expiration date to maintain your place on the waiting list.

Applicants are scheduled for an eligibility interview based upon the following:

yThe Authority determines how many applications are needed to ill anticipated vacancies at each development over a nine month period.

yThe Authority determines the number of applicants required to be interviewed who would complete the application process and result in the number of rentals needed to ill those anticipated vacancies in each borough and its developments.

yA computer then selects applicants on a borough by borough basis, based upon their irst borough choice, apartment size required, housing priority and date of application.

Borough choice is a signiicant factor in determining how soon an applicant will be scheduled for an interview. Therefore, it is important for applicants to select their irst borough choice carefully. The Authority has longer waiting lists and fewer vacancies in the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens. Applicants selecting one of these boroughs as their irst borough choice will probably take longer to be reached on the preliminary waiting list.

G. HOUSING PRIORITY INFORMATION

The Housing Authority has implemented a Dual Preference Priority System (Working Family and Need Based) in which it ranks each applicant. An applicant may be assigned a priority in either, both, or neither Preference. The priority ultimately assigned is the one that irst gains the applicant an eligibility interview.

H. WORKING FAMILY PREFERENCES

Families must live or work in New York City.

1.W1 PRIORITY Applicants with gross family incomes from 51% to 80% of area median income.

2.W2 PRIORITY Applicants with gross family income from 31% to 50% of area median income

3.W3 PRIORITY Applicants with gross family income from 30% or below of area median income who are “working families.” A “working family” shall mean: Income which is based on actual employment or if the head of household and spouse, or sole member, are 62 years or older or are receiving Social

Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income, disability beneits, or any other payments based on an individual’s inability to work.

4.The chart below lists the required gross family income for the W1 and W2 priority.

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I. NEED BASED PREFERENCES

You may be considered for priorities N0, N1, and N4 only if you live or work in New York City.

1.N0 PRIORITY Applicants who are referred to the Housing Authority by the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), or by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), or by the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), pursuant to an agreement with the Housing Authority.

Applicants about to be discharged from a Hospital operated by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), who would become homeless upon discharge and who are referred to the Housing Authority by HHC.

Applicants referred to the Housing Authority from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) under the Family Uniication Program.

Applicants referred directly to the Housing Authority from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) under the Independent Living Program.

To qualify for one of these categories, your application must be referred directly to the Housing Authority by the appropriate city agency.

2.N1 PRIORITY Applicants who have suffered serious or repeated abuse from a person with whom they had, or continue to have, an intimate relationship, and as a result of the abuse the victim suffered actual physical injury or the threat of injury, and the victim: (a) will continue to suffer abuse if he or she continues to live in the current residence, or (b) has left the residence due to the abuse and is not living in standard permanent replacement housing. Victims of domestic vio- lence will not be offered an apartment near the residence which they resided at the time of the abuse, and such applicants in Staten Island may not select Staten Island.

J.VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PRIORITY – DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

1 Document each from category A, B, C is required unless it is a “serious felony”* in which case 1

document each from category A and C

A criminal offense must be classiied as either a misdemeanor or felony.

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J. VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PRIORITY – DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

1 Document each from category A, B, C is required unless it is a “serious felony”* in which case 1

document each from category A and C

A criminal offense must be classiied as either a misdemeanor or felony.

6Letter from either the NY District Attorney, NYPD Detective or District Attorney Complaint documenting a criminal offense(s) against victim. [Criminal offense must be no older than 12 months prior to the iling of the application or priority upgrade].

d.**The advocacy letter must be dated within 60 days from the date of the application or priority upgrade request. The advocacy letter must identify the perpetrator, relationship between the victim and abuser, when and where the domestic violence occurred, details of the incident and advocate for the relocation of the family.

K. SERIOUS FELONY LIST*

NYCHA only considers the 21 Penal offenses listed below as serious felonies which would warrant a document waiver from Category B. Families must still submit 1 document each from Category A and C. The document submitted must specify the penal code

11130.67 Aggravated Sexual Abuse in the 2nd degree

3.N1 PRIORITY Applicants with a family member cooperating in a criminal investigation/prosecution, where a member of the household has been threatened by a defendant or by a person associated with a defendant. Applicants must be referred directly to the Housing Authority from the District Attorney’s Ofice. Intimidated Witness applicants will not be offered an apartment near the residence in which they resided at the time of the incident, and such applicants in Staten Island may not select Staten Island.

To qualify for this priority, your application must be referred directly to the Housing Authority from the District Attorney’s Ofice.

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4.N4 PRIORITY Families who are homeless, involuntarily displaced, living in substandard housing, doubled up or overcrowded in private housing, a victim of hate or bias crime, paying more than 50% of family income for rent, or legally doubled up and overcrowded in NYCHA public housing.

5.N8 PRIORITY Families who do not qualify for a Need Based Preference listed above and are not now renting either a New York City Housing Authority public housing or Section 8 apartment. Families who do not currently live or work in New York City.

L.ELIGIBILITY PROCESSING

All applicants scheduled for an eligibility interview are asked to appear at the Customer Contact Center. Applicants with a mobility impairment or who have some other type of disability that would make it a hardship for them to appear in person for their eligibility interview can request that a telephone interview be scheduled by calling (718) 707-7771. In addition, the Authority makes every effort to provide bi-lingual staff to meet the various language needs of applicants.

At the eligibility interview the applicant’s family size, family composition, housing priority, total family income and citizenship/immigration status are determined. If the family is income eligible and all the requested documentation is received, their application is sent to the Applications and Tenancy Administration Department’s Screening Unit for current and/or previous landlord contact.

Depending on the housing priority and family size, an applicant may be offered the option to select either a speciic development from the Guide to Anticipated Vacancies which lists developments with insuficient applications for anticipated vacancies, or to be placed on a borough-wide waiting list. Emergency applicants, which include victims of domestic violence and intimidated witnesses, and all families requiring ive bedrooms or more, are only entitled to a borough choice. All other applicants are permitted to select a development. NYCHA will determine inal eligibility at the time a suitable apartment becomes available. At that time, NYCHA will perform a Criminal Background Check for all household members who are 16 years or older. If everyone passes the Criminal Background Check, NYCHA will offer the apartment. Due to low turnover and the Authority’s Preference System, it is impossible to predict the length of time an applicant might be on the waiting list before being reached for an apartment offer.

It is the policy of the New York City Housing Authority to provide equal housing opportunities for all qualiied applicants and residents. In the selection of families and in the provision of services, there shall be no discrimination against any person on the grounds of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, familial status, marital status, partnership status, military status, disability, lawful occupation, alienage or citizenship status, or on the grounds that a person is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. This policy also prohibits retaliation.

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