(DNAINFO)  Amy Zimmer | January 10, 2017 — Hint: Look beyond the city’s wildly popular Housing Connect online portal.

Want to increase your chances of scoring an affordable apartment?

Look beyond the city’s Housing Connect online portal.

While the vast majority of affordable housing lotteries for new buildings are posted on Housing Connect — a site run by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development — there are a handful of lotteries only posted on a website run by the state’s Division of Homes and Community Renewal.

And while Housing Connect lets New Yorkers apply with a click of a button —garnering upwards of 100,000 applications per project — the state’s Division of Homes and Community Renewal lists some lotteries that only allow applications by snail mail.

These lotteries attract much less attention.

“They’ll get anywhere between 2,000 and 5,000 applicants. So, your odds are significantly higher,” said Rob Solano, executive director of Churches United for Fair Housing, which was contracted to do outreach and marketing for a recent lottery posted on the state’s website for the amenity-laden tower at Fort Greene’s BAM South with 76 affordable units.

Source: Here’s How to Boost Your Odds of Scoring Affordable Housing – Upper West Side – DNAinfo New York