Posted on September 6, 2015 by Piazadora Footman in The New York Times The New York Times, By Piazadora Footman Six years ago I went into the New York City shelter system. For 11 months, I searched for apartments like crazy. I had few options. I had just come out of a psychiatric hospital. I had a 4-year-old son and was pregnant with my daughter. I had a housing voucher and was living off of Supplementary Security Income (a Social Security program) and food stamps. I went in and out of real estate offices until I found an apartment at the western edge of the Bronx, in the River Park Towers.
