Posted on November 10, 2014 by Mireya Navarro in The New York Times The New York Times, By Mireya Navarro First came Hurricane Sandy, which left her homeless. Then came the live-in boyfriend, who battered her. Now the 44-year-old mother of three young children is homeless again, forced into a shelter by the abuse and trapped there by poverty and the paucity of living options in a city woefully short on affordable housing.