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Can a graduate student apply for low-income housing in New York City?

I am going to start graduate school soon at Fordham University and will need to move to the city from CT very soon. I was wondering if I could apply for low-income housing? Also how would I go about doing that? I have looked at certain apartments and dont meet the income requirement (which is usually 40x the rent) and trying to find a guarantor that makes 80x the rent is impossible. Please help!!

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1. sure you can, but they close the waiting lists usually once there is a 3 year wait, and don't open it again sometimes till the wait is one year. But go ahead and try....you must be talking about the university's itself its a little different, with cut backs good luck
2. You would most likely NOT be allowed to do this. By virtue of being able to afford to go to graduate school you do not qualify for this. People who get low-income housing are those who usually didn't finish high school and certainly do not have a Bachelor's degree. There are about a thousand reasons why you don't qualify for this and also a thousand reasons why you should not want to live in a low-income housing area. They are often very dangerous and not a place anyone could feel safe in. You need to make a responsible decision to attend a graduate school in a place where you can afford the rent. If you can't afford it then you shouldn't be making other people pay for it, only a very small percentage of people have the opportunity to ever go to graduate school, this is not a right.
3. No, it can not be used by the thousands of college students in this country. You have to work at least 35 hours a week. You can do what everyone else does, they live off of student loans.