An affordable housing lottery has opened for first-time homeowners looking to buy an affordable apartment in the longstanding Brooklyn Heights middle-income housing complex Cadman Towers. The lottery will give people a spot on the waitlist for one of 19 units.

The well-known development, which debuted in 1971 and comprises high-rises at 10 Clinton St. and 101 Clark St., was recently converted from a Mitchell-Lama cooperative into a city-sponsored HDFC, freeing residents to sell their houses for a higher profit and generating more income for the buildings, which are in need of costly repairs.

Apartments used to sell for five figures, and now all of the units in the lottery are more than $100,000. At the same time, the conversion wiped a years-long waiting list for the affordable units

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