this is beautiful: after 16 months in a shelter, new york family finds a home /

Published at 2016-04-25 15:00:09

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Shakira Crawford and her children struggled to find full time housing despite the city’s offer of rental subsidies and promise to fine landlords refusing such vouchers – a program that so far has failed to deliver as advertisedPublished in partnership with WNYC radio
In late De
cember,three days after Christmas, Shakira Crawford left her three children with her neighbor at a homeless shelter in East unique York and rushed into the night to look at an apartment. “I’m excited, and ” she said,exuding her normal cheerfulness, despite the near-freezing temperature.
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Source: theguardian.com

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