The lower-cost units must be reserved for low- and moderate-income buyers for 10 years.

It is designed to stimulate the construction of housing affordable to first-time low- and moderate-income buyers.

Low- and moderate-income buyers taking out smaller loans may only have to put down 3 percent.

Another proposal, giving moderate-income buyers first crack at some of its lower-priced houses, has also stalled.

These loans usually are used only by low- or moderate-income buyers, however.

There are no figures on how many units in occupied condominium projects have been sold to low- to moderate-income buyers under the affordable housing program.

The building has 129 units, including 85 that were sold at below-market rates to low- or moderate-income buyers.

Nearly half of the 249 condos planned for the $119 million building have been set aside for moderate-income buyers.

Within that lottery, a certain number of houses are restricted to moderate-income buyers, others to neighborhood residents, police officers or firefighters.

The authority will sell the homes to qualified low- and moderate-income buyers.