Old or disabled, and no place to live
“Despite decades of legal efforts, there is next to no affordable senior housing in New York City. A new building of transitional and affordable housing with 135 apartments that opened in the Bronx last year had 50,000 applications. Organizations like Breaking Ground and the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens list low-income apartments with a complicated application process requiring elderly, disabled applicants to have executive function and saintly patience to wait, literally, for years.”