Sixty brokers,10 months. Shakira Crawford is looking for a domestic. In the third installment of our series about homelessness in current York City (click above to listen) Shakira thinks she's finally caught a break. But yet another apartment turns out to be a scandalous deal.
So she finally does something she’s never done before: she visits her grandmother’s house in the Bronx, and reveals she's been living in a shelter. Grandma commiserates, and tells Shakira that God will help her out.
After midnight,the family returns to their shelter in East current York. Almost a year after beginning their search, it's still the only domestic they have."It's my life and nobody else's, or " Shakira says. "Got to pick charge of it."Read more about Shakira's yarn on The Guardian.
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