nyc: I have gone through the process of applying for an apartment in nyc public housing. I have gone through the interviews, now my family and I are waiting for an apartment in a development to open up for us. But what does priority w2 mean?|||it means that even though your applying for something for free, you have enough money for a laptop and to go online all the time, so your not top priority.|||It means you meet the criteria as a working family, with income above 30% of the area median, but below 50% of the median. If you don't have an emergency condition, people who are in priority W1 will generally get preference over you as they have incomes that are much lower than yours. The waiting list for NYC public housing has 140,000 families on it according to their website, so it is probably going to be a long wait.