shelter system

"We live in a for-profit system where some people are going to be able to afford housing, and most won't. Shame on the system!"

From 2002 to 2011, the shelter system saw a 204% increase in applicants who needed housing because they feared for their safety.

The New York Times began the task of showing you the life of an 11-year-old in a family of nine existing in a homeless shelter at least a year before de Blasio was elected.