Survey Shows 200,000 New York Seniors on Waiting Lists for Subsidized Housing

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.