Posted on January 27, 2016 by Jennifer Fermino in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Jennifer Fermino In a sad sign of the city’s housing crisis, a disturbing new survey estimates a whopping 200,000 low-income New York senior citizens are stuck on waiting lists for subsidized housing — with an average wait of seven long years. Some of the seniors, who are typically low- to moderate-income and include those with disabilities, have been waiting as long as 10 years, according to the LiveOn NY survey of senior housing subsidized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.