Step 1b: The Lottery
The Lottery will be held on February 25th, 2021 at 6:00 pm. All eligible Households will be notified of how to attend the lottery and of the results by the Lottery Agent (see Notification of Lottery Results in the following pages).
There will be one lottery with two drawings*, a Local Preference Drawing and an Open Lottery Drawing. For Local Preference households, Application Numbers are placed in both Lottery Drawings. For all other households, Application Numbers are placed only in the Open Lottery Drawing.
*A third minority lottery drawing will be required to add non-local preference minority households into the local preference pool if the minority representation in the local preference pool is not 27.0% or higher. Please see the bottom of pg. 17 for those details.
The Application Numbers of households who qualify for disabled-accessible apartments will be added in with the other Application Numbers in the Open Lottery Drawing and (when applicable) the Local Preference Lottery Drawing.
For the Lottery, a representative from SEB Housing will pull Application Numbers from a box. The Application Numbers are randomly and placed in the order drawn on the Lottery Result List.
The order drawn does not necessarily reflect the order that households will get to select apartments as Application Numbers of smaller households are mixed in with Application Numbers of appropriately sized households.
Regardless of the order drawn, all households of appropriate size for each apartment size will be given the opportunity to lease an apartment before any smaller household.
For example: A one-person household is the first household drawn in the Lottery. They will be given the first opportunity to lease a one-bedroom apartment. However, if they wish to lease a two-bedroom apartment, they will have to wait until all appropriately sized households (including those drawn after them in the Lottery) are given the opportunity to lease a two-bedroom apartment.
To help clarify the actual order that applicants will be given the opportunity to lease apartments, Waiting Lists will be created from the Lottery Results Lists (see next step).
Step 1c: The Waiting Lists
The Waiting Lists will be compiled immediately after the lottery. The separate Waiting Lists created from the two Lottery Results Lists illustrate the order households will get to choose units based on unit size, household size/composition, local preference and need for a unit with features for the mobility-impaired or hearing-impaired. The position each household has on the Waiting Lists is determined by the order in which their Application Number is drawn relative to households of similar qualifications (i.e. households of “appropriate size” will be added to the Waiting Lists in the order drawn and then smaller households will be added in the order originally drawn.) Please see “Household Size and Compositions” for details on Household Types II and I shown below.
Local Preference Units
Waiting List for SEVEN 1BR apartments
Top Tier: All Local Pref. Households
Bottom Tier: All Non-Local Pref. Households
Waiting List for FOURTEEN 2BR apartments
Top Tier: Type II Local Pref. Households
Second Tier: Type II Non-Local Pref. Households*
Third Tier: Type I Local Pref. Households
Bottom Tier: Type I Non-Local Pref. Households*
Open Pool Units
Waiting List for ONE Studio apartment
Top Tier: All Households (with no priority among Type)
Waiting List for THREE 1BR apartments
Top Tier: All Households (with no priority among Type)
Waiting List for ONE Studio Disabled-Accessible (DA) apartment
Top Tier: All Households who require the features of the unit
Waiting List for TWO 1BR Disabled-Accessible (DA) apartments
Top Tier: All Households who require the features of the unit
Waiting List for ONE 2BR Disabled-Accessible (DA) apartments
Top Tier: Type II Households who require the features of the unit
Bottom Tier: Type I Households who require the features of the unit
Waiting List for ONE 2BR Disabled-Accessible (DA) and Hearing-Impaired (HI) apartment
Top Tier: Type II Households who require BOTH features of the unit
Second Tier: Type I Households who require BOTH features of the unit
Third Tier: Type II Households who require ONE feature of the unit
Fourth Tier: Type I Households who require ONE feature of the unit
*Please see the last Q&A on page 17 that details how a certain number of non-Local Preference minority households may be given Local Preference status.