For Homeless, Supportive Housing Provides Path to Normalcy

A group of formerly homeless people played bingo in the basement of a Bronx apartment building one recent afternoon, trying to win prizes such as movie tickets and bottles of laundry detergent. Residents cheered when LaVerne Rogers won cheap bath towels and gave them to a friend.

“The detergent was one of the floral scents, and everyone in the room gathered and smelled laundry detergent and got excited,” said