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Hunters Point Affordable Housing Project Seeks Higher Income Renters

  AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION     QUEENS WEST/ HUNTERS POINT SOUTH  
  QUEENS COMMUNITY DISTRICT 01  
June 9, 2010
City Limits Weekly

This week, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development released a request for proposals for the 5 million square foot Hunters Point South complex. The complex will have 5,000 apartments, of which 60% will be affordable units. Of the 3,000 affordable units, 2/3 are reserved for "people making between 81 percent and 165 percent of area median income" or $63,000 to $130,000 for a family of four.