The primary driver of record homelessness is the worsening citywide housing affordability crisis. In every borough, skyrocketing rents and stagnant incomes have left more and more New Yorkers on the brink of homelessness: As of 2014, one-third of all NYC renters were paying more than half of their incomes on housing – many just one … Continue reading Today’s Read: Thousands of Working New Yorkers Are Living in Homeless Shelters