Adi Talwar
535 Carlton devotes 50 percent of its apartments to upper-middle-income households, with rents set at 160 percent of Area Median Income, or up to $149,490 for a family of four.
The city’s affordable housing lotteries are notoriously competitive, but new data shows some progress: in the most recent fiscal year that ended in June, 6,173 applicants were approved for a unit through the lottery system, up nearly 24 percent from the fiscal year prior. But the approval process took longer for applicants than the year before, and the odds remain tough.
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