A 3-hour online apartment lottery: Another sign of Syracuse’s housing crisis

Apartment lottery

Jennifer St. Mark, lease up manager for Housing Visions in Syracuse, opens one of the applications for an apartment at Moyer Carriage Lofts during an online lottery.Facebook screenshot

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Syracuse, N.Y. – For more than three hours, Jennifer St. Mark sat in front of a camera on Facebook Live and read aloud the names of people hoping to land an affordable apartment in Syracuse.

“Now I know what Santa feels like opening all those letters,’’ she said after about 80 minutes.

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