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Winning a Housing Lottery and Figuring Out How to Get Out of a Lease
The affordable unit was bigger, but also more expensive than her studio. She decided it was worth it.
Rodica Miller, a special-education teacher, didn’t want to get priced out of Roosevelt Island. So when the chance to take a stabilized, affordable apartment came up, she jumped at it. The apartment was, however, more expensive than her market-rate studio.Credit.Tom Sibley for The New York Times
April 26, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Last fall, Rodica Miller found herself in a somewhat strange situation: She had won an affordable-housing lottery for a one-bedroom apartment just steps from the Roosevelt Island studio where she’d been living since 2018. But moving there would mean a substantial rent increase: from $2,050 a month to $2,468 a month.
JEFFERSON â Small businesses might be struggling in the COVID-19 economy, but it appears that large utilities are not, as Jefferson County board supervisors spent the majority of a regular meeting for December Tuesday hearing about two big projects proposed for their jurisdiction.
One of these is the Crawfish River Solar farm being planned in the Town of Jefferson. This project, however, achieved no more than mere mention of its status Tuesday.
The other, a Liquified Natural Gas storage tank pitched for locating in Ixonia, stole the show, eliciting considerable public comment â mostly from residents of Ixonia opposed to it.
The LNG storage tank, proposed by WE Energies, has been rooted in controversy since well before a September Ixonia Town Board meeting. During that autumn session, the board â despite dozens speaking against it â voted 3-1 to recommend that Jefferson County officials approve a conditional use permit to allow We Energies to construct the facil
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