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After 2 years of applying for the NYC housing lottery, she finally won her bid. Now she pays $1,000 in rent for her Manhattan apartment.
In 2018, the odds of winning the affordable-housing lottery were 1 in 592, The New York Times repor…
Amanda Goh
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Their landlord hiked their rent by 25%, so they applied for the NYC housing lottery. On the 25th try, luck was on their side.
Winning the housing lottery is a pipe dream for most applicants: In 2018, The New York Times report…
Amanda Goh
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She was still in college when she started applying for the housing lottery. Now, she pays $1,600 for a 1-bedroom apartment in NYC.
Rent prices in NYC grew more than seven times as fast as wages in 2023, according to a May report f…
Amanda Goh
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I won a housing lottery with over 5,000 applicants. Now I pay $1,260 a month for a brand-new home.
After a 33-year-old single mom won an affordable housing lottery, she and her son were able to leav…
Alcynna Lloyd
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He won the NYC housing lottery after applying more than 60 times. Now, he pays $2,300 in rent for his Brooklyn apartment.
Competition for the New York affordable-housing lottery is stiff: There are about 450 applications …
Amanda Goh
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A New Yorker won a $10 million lottery jackpot — twice. A neighbor said his incredible luck didn't change him.
Wayne Murray won $20 million with two scratch card wins, but those who know him say he hasn't chang…
Joshua Zitser
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A North Carolina woman gave birth to her daughter and won $100,000 lottery a few hours later: 'I'm so thankful'
"I feel like she brought me my luck," 28-year-old Brenda Gomez Hernandez said, per the NC Education…
Taylor Ardrey
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A Florida woman won $1 million playing a scratch-off lottery. 2 months later, she won $1 million again.
A Florida woman picked up another lottery ticket after closing on a new house she bought with her $…
Paul Squire
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Here's how to win the lottery, according to a Romanian-born mathematician who hacked the system, won 14 times, and retired in a remote, tropical island
Plenty of lottery winners end up blowing it all - spending it on huge houses and Porsches, gambling…
Rachel Premack
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San Francisco's housing crisis is so dire that nearly 7,000 people applied for 95 affordable apartments
Other American cities are also grappling with affordable housing shortages. The Times reports that …
Leanna Garfield
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An Uber Eats driver discovered she had won $250,000 on a lottery ticket while waiting for her next delivery in Maryland
An anonymous delivery driver known only as "Grateful Mom" said: "I don't want to do Uber Eats right…
Zahra Tayeb
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11 cleaners struck a $1.2 million jackpot after pooling the little money they had to buy a $3 lottery ticket
Some of the women said they earned so little that they had to borrow money to pay for their share o…
Matthew Loh
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Scientists say winning the lottery does make people feel better about life - even though decades of evidence suggests otherwise
Meanwhile, other research suggests that the amount of money required to be happy and satisfied with…
Shana Lebowitz
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Trump is assailing the diversity visa lottery after the NYC terror attack - here's what it is
Eight people were killed and at least were 11 injured on Tuesday, after a suspect plowed a rented p…
Michelle Mark
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US says TCS, Infosys apply for very large number of visas, accuses them of violating H-1B visa norms
"And those three companies are companies that have an average wage for H-1B visas between…
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An Iowa woman lost her home in a tornado over 20 years ago. After winning $2 million in the lottery, she's finally building a new house – with a Jacuzzi.
Tammy Gordy lost her home in Iowa in Tornado in 2001. She said her Powerball prize winnings are goi…
Maria Noyen
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The safe house of Mexico's once most infamous drug lord 'El Chapo' is now a lottery prize
Mexican marines raided the two-bedroom 2,800 square foot home in 2014, but El Chapo escaped through…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz won half a bitcoin in an election bet, then gave it away through a self-hosted lottery
Half a bitcoin is currently worth $7,726. Novogratz previously said he was expecting Democrats to w…
Shalini Nagarajan
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A woman who was formerly homeless was already having a good year – then she hit the jackpot winning $5 million in the lottery
Lucia Forseth experienced homelessness in 2017. After winning a $5 million lottery ticket, she plan…
Isobel van Hagen
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Trump said an immigration program lets countries pick their 'worst of the worst' and 'put 'em in a bin' - that's not what happens
The diversity visa previously came under fire from certain Republican lawmakers earlier this year, …