Posted on March 12, 2015 by Winnie Hu in The New York Times The New York Times, By Winnie Hu The New York City homeless shelter system that was supposed to provide a refuge for families with children instead forced some of them to live in squalid conditions that included a dead rat in an apartment, garbage strewn in hallways and stairways, and a puddle of urine in one building’s only working elevator.
