Posted on May 11, 2016 by Erin Durkin in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Erin Durkin A whopping 2.5 million applicants have lined up for 2,600 affordable apartments the city has offered up since last summer, Mayor de Blasio’s housing commissioner said Wednesday. While demand for housing is sky high, Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been said the massive numbers are in part because people blindly apply for every home offered, regardless of whether they qualify.
