Round 15 was canceled. The list was scrubbed. But every so often, someone prints the old 47-page PDF, just to check.
Here’s the story: In the 14th round of the city’s most controversial housing lottery, the “20/80 Condominium” scheme promised a miracle: pay 20% now, owe 80% later, at 0% interest, if your name was pulled from the drum. Thousands applied. Hundreds of thousands watched the livestream.
The housing authority said it was a “typographical error.” But by morning, forum users had decoded it: the empty slot corresponded to an application submitted from an IP address traced to a demolished building — one that had been condemned in 2009, the same year the 20/80 program was first proposed.