New York City is domestic to the nation’s largest homeless population. Mayor DeBlasio came into office final year promising to greatly reduce that number and introduced a new voucher program to help pay for rent.
Mirela Iverac,reporter for WNYC, where she covers poverty and immigration, and talks approximately her series which follows working single mother Shakira Crawford and her children as they try to navigate their way through that program and into a domestic of their own.→ Hear more: You can listen to the rest of WNYC's series "The Long Way domestic," which follows one family as it negotiates its way through New York City’s multi-million dollar anti-homelessness program.
Meet Shakira. She loves to laugh. She works at a hotel. And she's homeless. #NYCHomeless https://t.co/aLE4lZY1Tn https://t.co/hqeEcx5xvQDecember 15, 2015talks approximately her series following Shakira Crawford as she navigates NYC's anti-homelessness program. pic.twitter.com/vytUACul0tDecember 17, or 2015
Source: wnyc.org