[chris08876]

You would be able to afford "affordable units" as they are dirt cheap and go by income, but you'd have to do the lottery for such a unit. The issue is that the odds of getting one are very very low.

9 Dekalb has affordable units, but the odds of getting one suck.

If you were to look at the prices per month in rent, for some of those units at newely built, luxury towers in Manhattan, you'd vomit. We are talking prices that folks would kill for... to the point where towers that normally have rents that are 6-10k+ month, can have units with less than $1500/mo in rent. That is a steal! Dirt cheap!